SubJeff on 18/12/2016 at 20:30
How does one consume this?
faetal on 18/12/2016 at 20:32
With the mouth.
(generally just as part of a cold platter is best. With melba toasts, salad, cheeses etc.)
PigLick on 19/12/2016 at 02:35
I'm sorry, but that looks absolutely terrible.
demagogue on 19/12/2016 at 03:12
With a few exceptions like Italian, culturally important food is supposed to be terrible.
You can't very well be showing real patriotism eating a dish unless it's hard to keep down.
faetal on 19/12/2016 at 16:38
It's not terrible though, it's great. I'm not saying that in the same way I say salmiakki is great either, I mean I liked it the first time I tried it (rather than with salmiakki, I just kept trying it until I developed the gustatory equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome).
heywood on 19/12/2016 at 18:27
Quote Posted by faetal
Man, I love pickled herring. The last time I was in Sweden I ate a shit load one night before going out with friends, forgetting that I can't eat fish and drink, as it always (literally without fail) makes me vomit. Not sure why, internet seems to have wives tale and little else to offer by way of explanation, but there it is. Anyway, there is a green pickled herring I got in Malmö whose name I forget, but it's awesome and sweet and fishy and ridiculous.
Did you also try surströmming? Closest I've had is Norwegian rakfisk, and that made me want to vomit.
Quote Posted by demagogue
I wouldn't need the booze to get queasy. (Although my name Cade does apparenly mean the units of barrels of those herring.) Speaking of which, Japanese food is either total win or total fail for me, no middle ground mercy. I can't drink as relentlessly as Japanese do, much less over plates of raw sea food or raw horse.
Basashi (horse) is extremely yummy.
faetal on 19/12/2016 at 18:38
Quote Posted by heywood
Did you also try surströmming? Closest I've had is Norwegian rakfisk, and that made me want to vomit.
No, I wouldn't go near suströmming or lutefisk - the pickled herring I was eating is nothing like that weird fermented shit, just fish marinated in flavoured stuff. Delicious.
SubJeff on 19/12/2016 at 23:01
So it's just like other pickled herring then? I like it a lot. Great with cheese, buttered toast, crackers, pickled gherkin, hams of all types, beer. I eat a lot of Lithuanian pickled fish, but it's usually prepared in some way. Xmas eve I'll be having quite a lot I expect.
faetal on 20/12/2016 at 20:22
Yeah, we had about 3 varieties, the Brantevik one being the stand-out.
