The famous rotten shark meat
Hakarl is considered a treat in Iceland. To most who reside outside the country it is nothing less than a stomach churner!. When the shark is caught it is too full of toxins to be eaten. To give you some perspective, even sea gulls refuse to eat it! The shark is then buried for between 3 to 6 months to allow decompostion to rid the fish of harmful toxins. At this point, once recovered from the ground it is eaten raw in small cubes. The smell is nothing short of putrid. How anybody stumbled across eating the shark in this manner is beyond me
