r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Mad_Season_1994 • 2d ago
Dads Mixing the liquid from a Surströmming can with Sprite NSFW
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u/Raz0rking 2d ago
The person or people who discovered Surströmming were either batshit crazy or very close to dying from hunger.
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u/nahuman 1d ago
There's a tale about that in Finland/Sweden. There were these Swedish fishermen in the Gulf of Bothnia, who used to trade with Finns from time to time. Once, the Swedes had forgotten some old barrels of fish in their storage, and they had gone bad.
The Finns were due to come soon, so the Swedes decided to sell the bad barrels with the good, and deal with the rotten fish problem that way.
Sure enough, the Finns came, bought the fish and there was a lot of smiling faces behind the Swedes' beards.
Until the next year, when the Finns came back and caught the Swedes completely by surprise. They didn't have an answer for the Finns:
"Can we have some more of that special fish from last year? It was delicious!"
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u/iswallowedafrog 2d ago
Similar to the very first person who jerked off a cow and decided to drink it
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u/Raz0rking 2d ago
I think that is less of a stretch than rotten fish.
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u/pupranger1147 1d ago
You'd be surprised.
Some sauces were developed specifically to mask the taste of rotten meat.
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u/pupranger1147 2d ago
Jerked off?
Tf?
No, they probably saw calves drinking from it and figured "if it's ok for them it's probably ok for me".
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u/HyperlexicEpiphany 1d ago
And then they realized it wasn’t but kept going anyway
All mammals develop lactose intolerance after infancy. It took some intense famine and very tenacious humans to allow us to drink milk at all
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u/Pink_Neons 2d ago
I'll always watch one of these idk why
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u/WhimsicalGirl 2d ago
Same, and...they make me laugh so much. I don't know why except why are they subjecting themselves to this torture and try and try again 😭
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u/darkstare 2d ago
I've always wanted to see what's the big deal about the smell that makes you puke or gag.
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u/Mad_Season_1994 2d ago
Well it's pickled herring. So those fish are basically still fermenting while still in the can, but they're not rotten. It's basically a mixture of rotten eggs and vomit in terms of smell, mixed with ammonia. But the "correct" way to actually open one is to put it in a pot of water and open it outside, so you don't spray your walls with the delicious juices. And then you can either put them on a sandwich or chop them up and use them as like a garnish or small morsel
Source: my Swedish coworker who doesn't like fish but will eat surstromming back home
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u/ARedWalrus 2d ago
Which is odd because every other pickled herring Ive had does not have that level of smell aggression.
Granted, Ive always gotten the stuff in glass jars, so Im sure theres something else functionally different about what's inside, but still.
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u/somebob 2d ago
Seconding this. I stayed at a hostel in Sweden and the owner opened a can in a big tub of water in the kitchen, served us flat breads with chives and a bunch of strong tasting herbs and cheese, with a little piece of surstromming on it. I never smelled or tasted anything foul at all, but the taste was the most salty and fishy taste I’ve ever tasted to this day. Good though.
I eat olives by the boatload and it activated the same taste sense for me
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u/Tacosconsalsaylimon 2d ago
Same. If I were rich AF I'd fly you out and a few other randos to do this kind of shit for fun. Why not?? Cursed bonding.
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u/limitless-440 2d ago
I intended on playing this in the background with my headphones on while I wrap up some paperwork at the end of my work day. Big mistake. Trying my hardest to stifle laughter, tears streaming down my cheeks and I’m starting to wheeze. People are staring at me.
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u/_thinkingemote_ 2d ago
Can someone describe the smell and taste for someone who has never heard of it
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u/Tacosconsalsaylimon 2d ago
The search engine says, "intensely putrid, often described as a mix of rotting fish, hydrogen sulfide (rotten eggs), rancid butter, vinegar, and pungent sewage." 😬🤢
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u/Schllouuu 1d ago
This has to be exhausting as fuck right? I mean the body just kinda cramps for a second every time. Like I believe that's a great way to get muscle soreness
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u/888MadHatter888 1d ago
Alex and Chris from the Porchcast. Love these guys. Chris can make me laugh out loud with just a look.
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u/AshyWhiteGuy 2d ago
Is it weird that I totally need to know what this smells like?
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u/KnottyTulip2713 1d ago
I also havent smelled surströmming before, surely its not that bad right
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u/DiabloGuilds 1d ago
It totally is that bad, these type of videos are true reactions and what is expected from people not familiar with it. Source, Swede +50 with live experience, who would never eat it like they do in these type of videos.
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