Canned herring has always been the top spot in the world for stinky food, because the smell is so difficult to dissipate that the Swedish government even prohibits the opening of canned herring in residential areas to avoid accidents.
Why canned herring, which stinks so madly, is the favorite of many Swedes, according to statistics, Swedes can eat 800 tons of servings per year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40">. Infamous canned herring</h1>
300 years ago, Swedes often went out to sea to fish, when there were many herring in Swedish waters, and most of them were herring at the end of the day.
There was no way to preserve food, and most of the herring caught was wasted. To change this, the fishermen decided to marinate herring for preservation.
At first, the herring was simply boiled in brine and left to ferment freely. At first, the Swedish people could not eat such a strange and smelly food.
After more than 300 years of mutual adaptation, the Swedish sense of taste has gradually been assimilated by this taste, and more and more Swedes have begun to accept canned herring, which has become the signature food of Sweden in the 21st century.
With the advancement of science and technology, the production process and storage method of canned herring have undergone slight changes, the most notable being the box for marinating and preserving herring.
In recent years, canned herring has been frequently searched, and major programs have eaten canned herring as a new punishment, making this strange and smelly canned herring gradually become the boss of the dark culinary world in our mouth.
In Sweden, every August people choose a day dedicated to herring parties, as the pickled herring is the most authentic in August. Canned herring has been passed down in Sweden for nearly three hundred years, and its existence is naturally extraordinary.
The so-called existence is reasonable, there are many strange foods around the world, Italian live maggot cheese, Indonesian cat coffee, Chinese peeled eggs, etc., in the long history of these foods can be passed down from generation to generation, must have its meaning of existence. It's no surprise that Sweden has an unusually foul-smelling canned herring.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" >2. Stink quiz of canned herring</h1>
Canned herring caused many adverse events in the early days, and there was a famous case of canned herring in the 1980s.
It is said that a landlord took the tenant to court simply because the tenant accidentally spilled the canned herring. It was just that one piece of food accidentally spilled on the ground forced the landlord to take it to court. The landlord once described in court that the stench of herring almost suffocated her. It was only at this time that everyone had a specific concept of the smell of canned herring.
In addition, canned herring is also very lethal. If you've ever looked closely at the list of foods on board that are prohibited, there are canned herring.
In 2014, a fire broke out in a fishing boat in Sweden, and what was a common fire event could be extinguished as soon as possible, and somehow, in just one minute, the location of the fire exploded one after another.
After the fire was extinguished, the local government began to investigate the cause of the fire explosion, and found more than 1,000 boxes of herring cans stored in the ship, which originally contained a small amount of hydrogen sulfide gas in the canned herring, which would explode in case of fire.
In 2017, canned herring suddenly exploded on the Internet, because many people tried to eat canned herring and recorded a video, but the final reaction was ironic.
It caused more and more people to be curious about the smell of canned herring, and tried it, and finally ended up miserable.
Since then, the true face of canned herring has also been revealed, with a gray skin and a pale pink inner flesh. Due to the long time of marinating, the canned juice is floating with a large amount of small minced meat, which is generally not delicious or good-looking, but it cannot stop its fire.
People who have tried canned herring have described the process of eating canned herring in this way, when he sat on the side of the toilet and cried bitterly after eating a mouthful of canned herring, a person vomited wildly at the side of the toilet, and finally although it was washed down, but the indoor odor was still enduring, and finally he chose to open the window, the next day there were people at the window who scolded, whose toilet was broken, the smelly family almost passed out. Since then, I have been convinced of the rumor that canned herring stinks a hundred times more than.
According to relevant equipment tests, the odor of canned herring is equivalent to more than 300 times that of Nimon natto and 20 times that of stinky tofu.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40">3. The rise of canned herring</h1>
The rise of herring tanks has a lot to do with Sweden and the Netherlands, when Dutch fishermen suffered the same problems as the Swedish people, herring can not be transported over long distances, and there is no other use than to help local fishermen solve food problems.
In 1358, a fisherman tried to marinate herring for the first time and was pleasantly surprised to find that the marinated herring could be preserved for about a year. Subsequently, the way canned herring was eaten became popular throughout Europe.
The biggest difference between canned herring in the Netherlands and canned herring in Sweden is that the smell in the Netherlands is not heavy, and Sweden is indeed a life-threatening stink. The eating habits of the two places are also different, and the Dutch are more accustomed to swallowing a whole herring in one bite.
This is mainly due to the swedish taste preference, the freshly salvaged herring offal after the removal of the internal organs in the thick brine boiled and then fermented, in the fermentation process continues to breed hydrogen sulfide gas, this gas presents the taste of rotten eggs, so after continuous fermentation, the formation of a strange smell of canned herring.
Not all Swedes have a preference for canned herring, and many people don't want to see canned herring.
At present, according to incomplete statistics, most of the canned herring is produced and sold in Sweden, and only a small part of the canned herring imported from abroad accounts for. At least 300 tons of canned herring are sold to northern Sweden every year.
Since 2017, canned herring has become a hit. Consumer groups have made new changes, but they cannot change the status quo that they cannot be sold overseas in large quantities.
Canned Herring in Sweden now uses the modern popular pickling method, adding many modern seasonings in addition to the 300-year-old pickling method, and the taste is even more bizarre than before. Even today's canned herring stinks five times as much as it once did. Sure enough, a mountain is higher than a mountain, and there is no stinky, only more stinky.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > Summary:</h1>
The smell of canned herring is really unbearable, and people who are very sensitive to the taste may even vomit. But there are still many people who insist on tasting it in the face of difficulties. After so many horrific attempts, people who cannot accept this food should not try it easily to avoid disaster.
Canned herring is so smelly that there are still many reasons why many people eat it: first of all, there are many nutrients contained in it, and it is well known that fish is rich in protein, and herring, as a fish that lives in the sea, contains a lot of protein.
Secondly, like most of the more smelly foods, such as durian, stinky tofu, etc., although they smell smelly, they are still very delicious.
The final reason is that for people in Europe, they have developed the habit of eating canned herring for 300 years, which is not so much a food as a feeling.