part 43: FERMENTED FISH

Foods you avoid BUT SHOULDN'T. Part 43: FERMENTED FISH

  WHY WE AVOID IT: There’s a fine line between fermented fish and rotting fish: one is gaggingly putrid, and the other is retchingly foul. In Sweden, surströmming -- fermented herring -- is fermented in barrels for a few months, then put into cans for another year. Some airlines ban surströmming cans because they consider…