Surstr\u00f6mming

Fermented Baltic herring in a can. One of the smelliest foods on earth, best opened outside and only for the story.

Oskar's Surströmming is fermented Baltic herring, arguably the single most notorious can of food on the planet. The smell when you open it has its own legend, and the legend is accurate.

You open this outside, in water. You eat it on flatbread with onion and potato and a stiff drink, and you do it with people who said they wanted something memorable. They will remember.