Comment on Alley cat lunch
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 16 hours agoIt would have to be cooked to be in a tin. You can get jarred pickled herring but it’s nowhere near as good as a fresh salted herring.
Comment on Alley cat lunch
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 16 hours agoIt would have to be cooked to be in a tin. You can get jarred pickled herring but it’s nowhere near as good as a fresh salted herring.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I tried the tinned stuff once and it was gaggingly bad. Not the nordic kind that will literally cause you and everyone in the room to vomit - but it really… was not good. And I’m adventurous when it comes to food. Plus the fish was cut across, not in fillets, so it had the spinal bones which were difficult to eat around.
Obviously that tin sucked. I’m just wondering if there is another kind I should look for specifically. That is until I get to visit Denmark.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 48 minutes ago
That is not the Nordic kind. You are referring specifically to Swedish surströmming. Regular pickled herring is something quite different in Scandinavia. And they don’t come in tins but in pickling jars.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Yeah. I’ve had a wide variation of them, some are awful like the ones you had, some are just okay. If they are shelf stable they’re usually never good, but you can get vinegar pickled ones in refrigerated jars or pouches which can sometimes be a bit nice if you’re into that. But none of them come anywhere close to the real delicacy that’s in that photo.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
How adventurous? Have you tried balut? Only food i can’t handle personally.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
No. I’m both curious and repulsed.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
The crunch in the egg got me. I was told i didn’t like it because I didn’t use salt. I suspect that is not the case, never tried it with salt.