Tom's Top Tales: A fishy story

Eating stuff you already know is 'off'. Some mentionable, some unmentionable things were sent in to the Tom Morton Show on Tuesday. This arrived just after a discussion with the redoubtable Vic Galloway about his trip to Iceland. Where he did not eat shark:

Hakarl - Fermented Shark

Good morning Tom from Sunny South Florida.

Two years ago after the Reykjavik marathon, I tried some Hakarl, a fermented shark dish which is buried for 3 months in the ground, followed by a further 3 months hanging in some guy's garden shed. It had an interesting texture but the taste is still with me today. Twas a bit like eating tripe which had been marinated in the urinal of The Pig and Whistle for four or five days. When the recommended side dish is Breniven, a kind of industrial alcohol in a fancy bottle, one should have been more aware I guess

Regards

Jack O'Farrell