Hakarl
Imagine there is a type of shark your father caught. Now imagine your sibling ate it and died.
Now imagine you decided not to avoid the shark and instead buried the toxic shark meat into a small hole in the ground and threw stones on top of the entire thing.
Now imagine you let it fester for 6–12 weeks in a pool of ammonia and uric acid before hanging it out in the open for a few months.
Don’t forget to cut it into little cubes!
As disgusting as it sounds, how much trial and error had to happen to create this product?
- Eat the shark at first, you’re dead.
- Leave the shark in the open for a week, you’re dead.
- Leave the shark in a hole in the ground for a week, you’re dead.
- Leave the shark in a hole in the ground for 6–12 weeks without stones, you’re dead.
- Leave the shark in a hole in the ground for 6–12 weeks with stones but don’t hang it up, you’re dead!
- Leave the shark in a hole in the ground for 6–12 weeks with stones and hang it up, congrats you are alive! Now do it again.
I honestly can’t tell if this is genius or just disgusting so I’m going to have to go with both.
How many people died trying to make Hakarl?
Four? Ten? 300 trillion?
Humans simply astound me for their ingenuity and stupidity.