Swede set to 'disarm' 25-year-old herring tin

[lafinjack]

A Swedish fermented herring expert has been called to help "disarm" a 25-year-old can of the odorous Swedish delicacy that managed to literally raise the roof of a cabin in northern Norway.

"If there's any fish left in the can, I'm going to eat it," Ruben Madsen of Sweden's Surströmming Academy told The Local.

Comments

[bork]

I really hope there's a live webcam of this event somewhere. Oh please, oh please.

[skellington1]

And thank goodness no one's invented the Smell-O-Net version of the internet yet.

[dafairyness]

Extremely accurate use of tags. If it smells anything like lutefisk...

[dafairyness]

Eesh. I mean, to each their own, but eesh. The only (supposedly edible)food I've ever smelled that is worse than lutefisk is durian.

[tsu_]

durian is a beautiful majestic thing.

(i grew up eating it in pancakes and icecream and all, so i don't find it offensive at all. cheese on the other hand, is mostly gross to me)

[sentinelsoul]

Ha, I immediately thought of this comic by Humon: http://satwcomic.com/nordics-like-fish.

[lafinjack]

I was hoping someone would link that.

[stainedfeathers]

I'm so in love with Humons comics. They're the reason I know what surströmming is!

[moonshaz]

OMG, that's hilarious!!

[tigerdreams]

When I hear "swelling cans," my mind immediately turns to botulism. For that reason alone, I hope he's very careful about whatever flora he finds inside that thing.

[cindyanne1]

Why are they opening it? Can't they just like, bury it or something? D:

[mistress_infy]

No, because it will actually, legit explode, and then it's a huuuuge mess.