Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, has a powerful stink thanks to food preservation. Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, is legendary for its powerful stink. But it's all a result of the ...

The various YouTube videos on the subject, almost all of them hailing from the U.S., ultimately depicted people in the throes of regurgitation, doubled over in gag-inducing torment as the camera ...

TYRSIL, Norway, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Swedish fermented herring expert who traveled to Norway to take care of a 24-year-old can of surstromming herring said the fish has completely dissolved. Ruben ...

As chef Malin Soderstrom opened the can, the trapped air escaped with a hiss and filled the balcony of her waterside restaurant with the pungent odour of Sweden's infamous delicacy, surstromming.

A hush descends over a crowd gathered in the yard outside the Higashi-Nakano Civic Activity Center. The silence is broken only by the sound of camera shutters. Keisuke Nakanishi punctures the rim on a ...