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surströmming
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A Brit tries Swedish fermented fish for the first time. And it’s… fine?
He didn’t cry, he didn’t scream, he didn’t even vomit. But in a nondescript hotel room somewhere on the Swedish High Coast, Gregg Harfleet ate two whole bits of surströmming.