"It Smells Like Ammonia" Andrew Zimmern Eats Rotten Shark In Iceland | Bizarre Foods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Andrew Zimmern goes to Iceland, where he eats one of the country's specialities: rotten shark. According to the locals, eating this dish without gagging separates the men from the boys!
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"It smells like something died."
"I'll bring you a very good piece!"
Durian from the sea then.
Haha
Great comment 👍
Weak
Except he hates durian. He liked hakarl.
The sharks indeed died in the process.
Everyone on every food network show ever “It’s sweet, it’s nutty”
This nutty flavor is in every exotic or expensive food they eat for some reason
@@RB-br8tr so true
Tastes like chicken
A nutty flavor is pleasant. It's basically palate, you can make anything, but if it hits a certain flavor, it's enjoyable.
5:03 it's smells like ammonia
"That's because it IS ammonia" squidward voice
😁🤣😂🧽😂🤣😁
They pretty much piss through their skin
“It’s very healthy, it’s very good for your stomach” okay bro keep telling yourself that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is healthy lol
Could be. Kimchi, cambucha, kefir. All fermented. All good for your gut.
Yeah the fermentation makes it more digestible and often comes with healthy bacteria for your gut.
Also the Icelandic accent is the closest to a Skyrim accent you get in real life.
Enjoy McDonald's bro
Think about the circumstances that led up to these people realizing that after the shark has rotted for 3 months, its finally safe-ish to eat if you have a strong gut!
Probably someone ate a rotten shark because was starving. There is a history about a japanese island whose population survived during the WWII eating a poisonous plant, that they discovered to be edible after fermentation.
@@JpLabs1981 Our ancient ancestors fermented a lot of the food they ate, both meat and vegetables. It aids in digestion and is healthy for you.
@Sam Yim you mosty eat oysters still alive that why they have to be cooled
Super healthy for your gut, it's safe to eat not safeish
@Sam Yim I remember seeing something about how oysters were likely one of humanity’s earliest foods based on artifacts made from their shells found on the South African coast.
Is it just me or everything this guy eats is the "perfect mixture" of sweet,salty,smokey and spicy lol
Not walnuts. Somehow he can eat every kind of rotten garbage but not a walnut.
Lol agreed. And no matter how rancid something is he loves it.
😂🤝
@Chuck Manson 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
It might be just you. 😅
I tried this once. It’s gooey and chewy at the same time. And your burps smell like rotting fish for 3 days after.
Wonderful.......
Amazing...
Lmao
i wonder how the fart smells
Remember how bad everything smelled before running water, soap, etc. Rotting shark was probably not a bigger deal than spicy nachos are to us.
Seems like you have never been to a place without running water, these places exist and the most of the people DONT stink
@@eln0n01 Was probably thinking of middle-ages developed towns where people through piss and shit into the streets. Small villages with people that at least scrubbed their bodies periodically wouldn't be any worse than a present day subway lol
@@eln0n01 they still wash , he is talking about the before 1800 colonisers and they believed washing wasnt good for you so I guarantee u everything smelled (there was no garbage truck btw) so trash shit piss dirty ppl everywhere
No I don't and neither do you......
My grandma said he's gay and I laughed
Think about the desperation and ingenuity that went into figuring out how to eat this. I tried this on a business trip to Reykjavik right before COVID, and it took everything I had to not wretch. I probably looked like that meme of the kid with the forehead vein. It was like huffing soiled kitty litter while eating old fish from a dumpster in August.
I think people even way back in the day used to store/ferment/age meat. I imagine why they decided to eat this though unless it was a starvation issue. It looks disgusting
so i assume that when Andrew Zimmern says its "nutty" , fermented shark meat does NOT taste "nutty" like peanut butter nutty but more like peanuts found in someones poop nutty? gross
Shit I could feel the smell for that description
Hahahahahha gave second thoughts on trying it reading this.
This description made me retch. Ick
Zimmern: it smells like something died
Everyone watching: uhmmm a shark? Haha
Try 60
Imagine living 500+ years only to end up in a dirty shed, chopped up, and strung on meat hooks to rot for months! i would be pissed... 😂🦈
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So he wouldn’t let him see the wooden crates of fermenting shark but I just saw another video where he (the same guy) showed the girl I believe it was a vice video the trailer of the crates of shark meat… mhmm
Oh yeah that was I was wondering, he was perfectly fine showing the entire process to the British girl from Insider. Maybe he was trying to impress her
Now I don't feel so bad about sharks eating people.
i remember watching this in high school. im in my 30s now 😪
This was such a nice interview in the beautiful environment
Andrew already knows the process! 😂
'it smells like sumthin died' !!!! lol no kidding
6:49 the Icelandic Bill Burr right behind him
I really want to eat it. He sold me on it big time
For reals haha. Bout to go soon just to try it.
@@_ApoIIo did you?
If it looks good…EAT IT!
-Andrew Zimmern.
Not sure if I’d rather eat a hakarl or receive a hot carl
Ahhh the chilis fresh :/
2:10 the homie is sitting with some random ass family 😭
Zimmern always says the weird shit he eats has a "Nutty" taste. LOL LOL
WHAT "legendary nightlife?" Everything closes at 7pm!
😆 thick steves! Lol get it like fat rick steves!
5:08 he was a bit hesitant about taking the meat off the knife xD
Zimmerman Is fearless, love bizarre foods.
Imagine sending a bunch of Greenlandic shark fins to China.
7:00 best hot dog in the world? *THIS* ??? I beg to differ
Those hot dogs sounded good.
I have drank a pint of bong water on a bet before I think I can handle rotten shark.
You must have had the most intense high from ingesting that THC ridden soup 😂 absolute unit
@@SuperOmegaBerserker yes I was hallucinating like I was on mescaline for a couple hours. I was high for three days was very sick also for a couple days and had crazy dreams for over a month Will never do that again now days it would probably kill me.
Huh... THC isn't water soluble. But it can actually be dangerous to drink bong water depending on age... But it won't get you high. You were just extremely sick. Lmao
@@cams.2083 indeed I was. I did it on a bet not to get high but It did have some crazy psychotropic effects that lasted quite a while.
@Inanna Kali Ma proper bong 💧water?
Yes. Rotting shark meat sitting in a box really should be a closely guarded secret. I watched this one complete schmuck show the entire world his boxes of cut meat. I don't live anywhere near Iceland. But I already started building my own Greenlandic shark curing company. Which was solely based off the weight of that poor fools mistake.
Ok. Good for you
when this is recorded? 1998?
Sure looks like it
He won't show him the shark in the box be its a secret. You would not have to worry about anyone stealing that recipe
can't let anybody steal my rotting shark recipe.
Hakarl smells much worse than it tastes. The worst part is the after taste.
I always wonder with strange food like this who was like : "yo let's stick this raw shark meat in a shed for a couple months and then eat it"
No way Andrew was there flies eveywhere???
Of course the Vikings ate rotten shark and not get sick
Beautiful country ,,,,beautiful people ,,,,
I just love Zimmerman voyages😏
I like the videos man so much good content
Inside Edition: fermented shark
Dmax uk: rotted shark
Omg it truly is GROSS belive me, the smell,taste and texture its so disgusting 🤢 hehehe
Luv from Iceland 🇮🇸✌
Cook the shark lol
I guess it's their version of hamon .. just take a raw pig, cover it with salt and let it hang outside… In this case it's shark or whatever they have… They do this in so many different cultures all over the world… Doesn't smell good sometimes it taste like crap but other things contest awesome like that ham they do in Spain that's pretty much done in a similar way.
Wow, he become much older in a single year compared to footage from food insider
So are flies just nonexistent out there?....
What's with all these Scandinavian/Icelandic peoples eating fermented fish? Did they not have salt to preserve it?
I totally want to go to Hella, Iceland.
If I know it wouldn't kill me I'd try it
This is some food you eat to survive on. Not some delicacy.
I am sure the Vikings hated it just had no choice but to eat it
Are their so few options for food there that they had to figure out through what I imagine to be some horrific trial and error, how to detoxify poisonous shark meat in order to make it into something revolting but palatable?
lol Adam Fournier Came here to say the exact same thing. It's always NUTTY to Andrew!
I guess we are strong in my country because we have our own version that we call Adjovan and we est it all the time…..but only to add flavor to stews. Yes the smell is crazy.
Why keep the boxes a secret. Who’s gonna use that info to get in the whale market lol I’m sure it’s pretty niche market
Idk someone else on the island.
Aren’t those rare?
Bullshit he showed the reporter the boxes 😆
this tv show makes me a bit nostaligic
You can eat hakarl without gagging...it's the 3 hours of belching after you eat just a small piece that is the problem. With each burp comes an ammonia taste/burn that comes out your mouth and up your nose. It's quite the experience...to be "enjoyed" once, and then stayed as far away from as possible. Unless you like your food tasting like a cap full of Mr. Clean.
While technically true, I don't think it's very nice to call fermented food rotten.
4:14
Omg, you so smart.
Half the population of the country lives in one city?! Wide open "uninhabitable" terrain all over. I could start a farm out there shoot. Country roads take me home.
He was about to projectile vomit as soon as he ate it
Jelly shark
He trying to "keep it a secret" AS IF we are interested in letting sharks rot in boxes ourselves lol
Or maybe it's covered in maggots
@Ya boi yum lol
Well this was aired over 13 years ago…he appeared again in this much more recent video th-cam.com/video/QnjtnzyTNoQ/w-d-xo.html …and you get to see them in the boxes and everything. It’s also notable how much his onscreen presence changed and he looks so much more comfortable now in front of the camera
@@murdah4474 What!? You've never had dry aged and smoked maggots?!? They are smoky and nutty, absolutely fantastic 👏
It is apparently very expensive, so yeah. A lot of people would be interested in doing it to basically live
This man set an example to be respectful towards other cultures.
Agreed!
Completely agree. But i sadly will never forget the one episode (maybe in Mongolia?) where he snapped a reindeer's antler and it was bleeding 😬 that was rough. Total accident but tough to watch.
m.th-cam.com/video/QnjtnzyTNoQ/w-d-xo.html
An excess of fake gushing positivity is more irritating than respectful
@@shakes.dontknowwhatyergettindidn’t think he was too giddy eating this shark
One of the best episodes of this show ever. Love bizarre foods. Throws me back to my childhood
Same!
Puke blood? Spend years trying to figure out how to eat it? What kept them going lol
I wonder if anybody sat and thought “maybe we should NOT eat this” lmfao
There was nothing else to eat
Our ancient ancestors fermented a lot of the food they ate, both vegetables and meat. It is healthy for you. Aids in the digestion.
When you get hungry enough, you'll do and eat almost anything lol
@@SeriviusR I’d prolly live off those pigs lmao
@@baltoslowdown3982 those pigs weren't there when vikings settled.
"Can we see the boxes?
To Andrew Zimmern, "No, we have to keep it secret"
To Ju Shardlow from Insider: "sure, we'll show you the entire operation."
I was scrolling for this comment
IKR lol same dude, same farm
I just made the same comment because I just watched that video. Maybe he liked her. She is very Icelandic-looking.
Everything is always nutty to Andrew
Including non seasoned farmed chicken
Because he is a nutty buddy!
He may be a swallower.
Yet he hates walnuts 🤔
@@uzibenisrael6917 👀
"It's sweet & nutty " everybody knows he pulled that one outta his ass LOL Andrew is a character
nutty, not gamy at all...
I don't think he did. It's probably pretty good.
It smells like Ammonia!...Yea...You want one?
Very good very healthy 👍🏼
Natural "rotting" of meats and fish is a totally organic way of preserving the food without the need for refrigeration...thus the obvious reason it's a traditional food of our ancestors. What astounds me is the question of just HOW they figured it all out! I guess there were a LOT of sick and/or dead ancestors along THAT process!
Nordic people had likely been eating gravlax ('grave salmon") for a long time before they encountered the shark, so they probably weren't working with nothing in this particular case.
I went through a history class where we studied ancient people, and the Sumerians figured ways of preserving meat, and they even have records of people dying from eating food that hadn’t fermented long enough, almost like test subjects. Crazy how we as a species figured it out.
The real question now becomes: if you live in iceland, how hard would it be to dig a little until you reach the perma-frost, then store meat in your own freezer?
Also the oldest shark species alive can live up to 500 years old
Witch shark
@@raulmorales5155 the wone they just eat
@@brogastlol1239 witch wone?
🤣
Actually longer. Not sure if you knew that.
Andrew: "I appreciate that, can we see it in the drying room?"
Gudjon: "No"
Andrew: "Ok, well I guess that's the end of this shoot"
Lol not mention years later they revealed the secret on a different segment
What level of food enthusiast do you have to get to unlock "rotten shark meat"?
I remember this episode back when it originally aired. Was a different world back then.
It’s doesn’t smell when your a fat rich man that enjoys a very young age group
*Is surrounded by shark corpses that have been butchered and left outside to rot.*
Host : "I'm a little hesitant, it smells like something died."
Did a food tour in Reykjavik in 2016.. Part of the tour was the trying hakarl and brennivin.. It basically tasted like preserved cuttlefish followed by a shot of fragrant gripewater.. We couldn't get enough of the stuff because both reminded us of childhood treats.. Our Icelandic guide was surprised we enjoyed ourselves, especially when we asked if we could have the remainder on the plate and in the bottle.. (The food tour group comprised of our party of 4 Singaporeans and 4 Americans..)
so quirky
@@beamzsalt4252 no u
Think about the trial and error that had to occurred for them to get this process down pat
Just WHY? It´s like they hate the sharks so much that they vowed to find a way to eat it even if it was the most gruesome and inefficient way possible.
**vomits blood** "Maybe I should let it rot?"
Watched every single episode of bizarre foods as a kid and would love to see a collab with this guy and Best Ever Food Reviews
Wish people would stop saying 'rotten' when they are speaking of something 'fermented'. Those two words are entirely different in meaning.
8:22 I wonder how she’s doing in life 🤣😍
😂🤣😅
Like we’re gonna steal the secret of rotten shark meat? No thank you sir😂
His description of the shark was spot on with my wife.
Laughed my ass off when he said that after reading your comment
🤣🤣
LMFAO IM DEAD 😂😂😂😂
EWWWWWW HAHAHA
UPDATE: Ex-wife
Turns out she reads my TH-cam comments. Who knew.
i honestly forgot about this guy, he was really popular in the mid 2000s
YOU ARE LIVING UNDER A ROCK HE STILL IS POPULAR ONLY A PERSON THAT KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT FOOD CULTURE OR ONLY KNOWS GORDON RAMSEY
@@Markerface calm down you’re scaring me
Wispers* Psst hey you your young naive mind is showing...might want to cover up.
@@Markerface wow you’re cringey as hell
@@Thatillegal your comment just made me cringe
>rotten shark meat
Have
Have they never heard of fermentation?
You realize a lot of shit can be called 'rotten' when it's not
But fermentation is from food that are sealed in something like a jar... right??? And the sharks that they have here are being exposed to the open air the whole time
@@lexis2660 no? There's lots of ways to ferment things
There's a video with a female doing the same as Zimmer but he allows her to see the boxes where the fermentation process is being done but won't let Zimmer see lol. At least I believe it's the same spot
True.
If I could get it in my mouth without gagging, I'd try it. Believe it or not, it's the first time I have ever used that phrase before.
ISENT GREENLAND SHARK ENDANGERED ??!!
I saw the same producer in another segment where he showed the meat in the wooden crates. Must have relaxed since this segment to have let another show film the wooden crates.
True
I think Andrew means 'crazy' every time he says it tastes "nutty"
Icelandic also famous for having beautiful women 😘
I heard the Greenland Shark is one of the most diverse and the most ugliest sharks I've ever seen. It'll be awesome to see one in person, but I'll NEVER attempt or try to eat it's meat. Im afraid it'll might just kill me.
It’s similar to the ammonia you’d get with bad crab at a Chinese buffet. But reminds me mostly the same aromatic sensation from 1000 year old eggs. Still delicious.
The hot dogs are out of this world!!! I have tasted the shark and it tastes exactly like its putrid smell! Absolutely HORRIBLE!!! The Puffin was also disgusting!
"yeahr i was eying that piece before" ofc, we all did. you should felt very honored and eat the hole thing!
Chill bruh