I'd wanted to signal-boost this for a long time.

[randomness]

From http://satwcomic.com/nordics-like-fish:

Now, achinhibitor's request for nominations for really nasty or disgusting foods has reminded me of the very cute cartoon. So I share it with you all.

Enjoy!

ETA: the comments to the cartoon include many cute icons in the same style.

Comments

[tactical-grace.livejournal.com]

OK, first of all: pickled herring is wonderful. Nobody should complain about it -- even if you don't like it, it's nowhere near a challenging food.

Surstromming is tougher -- I've never had it, but it's on my list of foods I'd like to try at least once.

Hakarl (buried poisonous shark) is pretty scary.

My nomination for scariest food, however, is casu marzu. You can take my word for it, or look it up.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree that pickled herring is tasty. There's a great place in Copenhagen whose specialty is a herring buffet with a variety of different kinds of herring. It was excellent.

I've never tried any of the rest, though.

"Casu marzu is believed to be an aphrodisiac by local Sardinians."

As an aside, I wonder why so many of the really scary foods have the reputation for being aphrodisiacs. Is it just because you have to be so desperate to get it up that you'll eat anything that claims to make that possible? Or that no one would eat them otherwise?

[karakara98.livejournal.com]

As an aside, I wonder why so many of the really scary foods have the reputation for being aphrodisiacs

Because being brave enough to try it is sexy?

Thanks also for the cartoon!

[nathanjw]

Anthony Bourdain has a few things to say on this subject in _A Cook's Tour_, I think in the same section where he's eating the still-beating heart of a cobra.

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

Any food which includes deliberately consuming live maggots who can survive your stomach acid and chew through your intestines, causing lesions and bloody diarrhoea, is just stupid.