Something Completely Different: Ian Tries Hákarl; Icelandic Fermented Shark
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On my recent trip to Finland for Finnish Brutality, I spent a few days first in Iceland, with my friend Dr. Jackson Crawford ( / jacksoncrawford . Some Icelandic gun videos are coming, but we also took a moment to try out one uniquely Icelandic foods, most notably hákarl (pronounced "how-cath"). This is arctic shark buried and fermented for several months, and it has a reputation for being remarkably disgusting. We also tried harðfiskur (essentially fish jerky) and taðreyktur silungur (dung-smoked trout). Some of it was good, some was...less good, but it was all an interesting look into the diet of the Norse settlers on a pretty barren island 1200 years ago.
If you are interested in Norse language, history, and mythology, definitely check out Jackson's channel!
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Ian can fieldstrip a rifle blindfolded...cannot open plastic container. 🤣
He loosened the lid and did all the work
It's consumer protection.
That is, the product is being protected from the consumer.
@@littlegrabbiZZ9PZA I spit coffee on that..🤣
No disassembly pin; bad design!
He was pulling on the lip that isn't actually part of the lid.
Different parts of the world use different designs for containers. I'm guessing Ian just hasn't opened that type before.
I just want to say how thankful I am that you had an opening for a line like "Jackson Crawford reveals his taste for horseshit" and you didn't use it.
For the record, you still do have a taste for horseshit
That would’ve been pretty interesting
I guess that's what you literally call a "Gentleman's agreement" :D
Hey Doc. As an IRL Karl, I'm curious what the etymology of "Hakarl" may arise from. Is it "Ha + karl" or "Hak + arl", etc...?
Perhaps a vid on all the various "-arls" in the Germanic world would be fun there are lots (Karls, Jarls, Earls, etc...)
Cheers from FL, USA!
@@KarlKarsnark It's Há-karl. Karl just means man, and há is related to shark/fish.
Karl might be related to jarl (earl is just the anglicised version of jarl), but AFAIK they have different roots (jarl/arilaz/erlaz vs. karl/karilaz/karaz).
Could be related, but it wouldn't be the first time two very similar words came from two different places.
Karl is still used with the meaning of man in Iceland/Norway/Denmark (and probably other places as well), though with a bit of a different meaning than man (from the old norse root of maðr)
In Denmark, karl is more of a younger man, usually a worker.
I need more Forgotten Flavors content in my life.
Hardly forgotten when its a staple of Iceland
Lets make starvation mukbang a thing!
Look up the “Fish Cock” when Ian was on InRange
"Hi I'm Ian McCollum and this is Forgotten Flavors, today we have a 1643 dodo Egg from the New World, the egg pattern denotes a New England species of the dodo..."
Norway and lutefisk next? Or Swedish surstrømning?
"This tastes like good stanky French cheese" is the most Francophile Ian moment we've had yet
@@fredo51 Yeah, the ones you need to watch out for are the ones with the reddish rind. The white stuff like on camembert is a pretty mild culture. The red stuff...that'll get the cops and fire department called on you if you cook with it in an apartment building with questionable ventilation :P.
@@fredo51 Leave a camembert half a year beyond the best before date, and we're NOT talking about some bland, meaningless white crusted cheese. I usually wait a month past the date, and I fully get the association Ian made with a fully ripe camembert.
Jackson Crawford: I'mma ambush Ian with this fermented shark.
Ian "Le Fromager" McCollum: *_hon hon hon_*
I'm thinking Pont l'Eveque, delicious. You can get strong smelling unpasteurised camembert but it's not from the big brands who ship abroad, the French keep most of it themselves.
@@fredo51 Karl from In Range TV made a vignette about a camembert which crossed Death Valley in 1878 to punish a guy who put ice cubes in his wine.
This food had pretty much to be a case of "caught poisonous shark in spring, burried it at the dumpster site, and later being so desperate in autumn that you started dig up the trash heap for food, realizing the semi-rotten carcass is now edible, somehow"
I absolutely feel like this was somehow the case. Somewhere, somehow, someone fucked up and ended up with rotting shark.
Seems about right.
starvation food indeed
Given the number of times Iceland was at near-starvation, I’m certain this is the case.
Fermenting fish and meat is a thing in the far north. Surströming (fermented herring) in northern Sweden is just horrible. Inuits is doing things as bury walruses for later consumption.
I'm all for Ian hanging out more with his Old Norse-speaking cowboy friend. :)
Read that as Old Norse-speaking cow boyfriend on my first attempt. Too much hákarl, I suppose.
Being a big fan of Dr Crawford and occasionally watching Forgotten Weapons this was a very unexpected yet welcome crossover.
"You guys wasn't gettin' paid to leave the dogs babysittin' the sheep while you stem the rose"
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@@rasmusn.e.m1064 i want an old norse-speaking cow boyfriend 😔
' It's an acquired taste......perhaps acquired by the means of starvation'.
I'm gonna use that one for sure.
forgotten flavours sounds like a nice little side-series Ian could do, trying foods from different countries he goes to
Ian does sound like he can have the same passion for French cheese as he has for French rifles.
I'm still a bit sad that Ian didn't seek to fully follow through with his well established approach on this subject area. What was _hákarl's_ track record in service? Did it get adopted or go through trials in any other nation? Were there other variants that didn't go anywhere? Did its inventors have further success with other products later in their career?
This is nasty, but it isn't as nasty as it could be.
-icelandic gourmand.
"It's less nasty than being dead from starvation, so it has that going for it".
Props to Ian for trying to not open the container lol
If someone offered me Hákarl, I'd forget how to open the container too! 😁
@@Backroad_Junkie I tried it during my two weeks in Iceland (amazing country). Ian should try some smoked Puffin, delicious.
Is this the start of Forgotten Foods?
its called Tasting History and the three of them need to do an era peice
Forgotten Foods with Ian ft Steve@MREinfo please!!!
@@EchoLog *clacking two pieces of hardtac together*
@@hazeygnome1743 only if we can do a cigarette episode with Steve
Forgotten Weapons doing a collab with Tasting History be like: weaponry and field meal of a 1800s French infantryman all IN ONE VIDEO! 😆
As a longtime fan and subscriber to this channel as well as a person who call this godforsaken island my home and heart, I really appreciate how you tackle this ill tasty so called snack with the same curiosity and non biased approach as you do with all those old and forgotten weapons. Cheers to you, or as we say here: Skál fyrir þér!
Your godforsaken island is one of the best places on Earth. Your hot dog game is outstanding. I saved a wrapper and it was my favorite souvenir.
@@hattorihanzo2275 Thats funny 😆
There was only enough fish for one person, but Ian fed everyone with it 👼
Now thats some hanukkah level shit
I see what you did there….
I'm really enjoying these collab videos with Dr. Crawford. Not a crossover I expected, but one I'm very glad happened.
@@hinder10709 It's ok to be wrong.
@@hinder10709 You sound like you need a hug.
@@hinder10709 Because you sound like a miserable person.
@@hinder10709 objectively, what in particular perturbs you about him?
Please make a follow up: “Ian Tries Surströmming; Swedish Fermented Baltic Sea Herring”
You can get a can of it at Stockmann next time you go to Finland
Probably best tried with the guidance of experienced local enthusiasts. 😀
Lutefisk needs to be on the menu, along with stinkheads.
It's pretty fucking good when you eat it properly instead of mainlining it like CZcamsrs tend to.
You know, with your travels this could be a real interesting sub-series. I'd watch it!
youre right Iaqns not busy enough already he needs another channel !
Travelling is a great opportunity to try different foods. I love going around foreign markets, looking at the local produce. Also developed my rule of street food. If there's a queue and no ambulances, it's probably good. A lot of the time I had no real idea what I was eating, but that's part of the fun. If I did, my brain would probably have noped out of trying a few things that turned out to be really tasty. About the only thing I've tried and failed on was durian. The wiki description of that is spot on, as well as being something that looks like it was extracted from an abscess that had been left too long.
We need to see an entire series like this “forgotten foods” or whatever where Ian eats weird stuff while abroad
Next: go through all the unique French cheeses.
Since every county in France has its own unique cheese, that would be quite the series.
Ahhh, Mimolette... Flavored with cheese mite excrement... (Still a better experience than Limburger)
Firearms fromage.
St Andre is found in most US supermarkets, and is one of my favorites when it's fresh. But let it sit in the fridge for a bit and it starts to develop. Specifically to develop an ammoniacal flavor that just gets stronger.
France has over 1600 cheeses. Be a long series.
I love the break in usual content.
Also the scenery is absolutely incredible.
Ian you could legit make a spin off channel about exotic and interesting foods along with their history
I loved this
I know some pretty good spots in my local area for wild fungi. Would love to see Ian try some.
@@jimmyrustler8983 please check the area for muscaritas
We must protect our firearms lord 🙏🏻
I only buy classic examples of Hákarl from Rock Island Auctions. Hopefully, it will go up in value enough for me to retire one day.
Contrary to popular rumours there are trees in Iceland, indeed they are planting more every year.
The smoked trout is really great - especially when it arrives "fresh" from the smoke room at the bottom of the garden for breakfast 🙂
The various reforestation projects in Iceland are extremely exciting (for multi-year plant growing values of 'exciting'), and I wish them every success
Ian visiting Iceland getting ready to whitness the epic showdown between the elbonian army and the army of Iceland
A little known fact. In Afghanistan Icelandic soldiers would wear Norwegian uniforms. This got them in to trouble plenty of times when people where out to try to get Norwegians. And lastly, Iceland really does not have much of an army to speak of... But dont get me wrong, these bastards can fight. Just ask British fishermen...
@@Rakadis they have no army, only a coast guard and a crisis response unit wich is equipped and organised like a militia
But Elbonian army chefs have now perfected the 'Stilton & Anchovy Surprise', as a new form of 'carpet vomming' : )
@@loddude5706 Hey Steve1989, you're in charge of designing army rations for the nation of Elbonia. But you're a traitor! What food do you give them to sabotage their morale?
@@Rakadis Got any sources on this? I'd like to know more about it.
Oh and...I like your nick! :D
I love Ian's experences trying these things.
The man can strip any weapon down to armourer-level but that plastic tub defeated him. Also, eats Nordic fermented shark, somehow makes it French with the Camembert analogy; never change Ian...
*Forgotten Flavors* are forgotten for a reason! A damn good reason.
No, shark is delicious. If it weren't so expensive I'd regularly buy it as a snack.
Found one
naaah people who eat processed goo food their whole life tend to overblow any natural food
i saw yankees dissing holodets and now that is like the most basic most normal food on earth, just chicken meat
anyway better than "chicken" nuggets made out of bean goo
@@tsartomato I'll agree with you, to a point. I keep running into people who turn up their noses at lamb because "it's too gamey" or "it tastes too strong". Lamb is delicious. But if ones experience of "meat" is typified by boneless, skinless chicken breasts from the freezer aisle, pretty much anything has "too much flavor."
That said, hakarl and it's Scandinavian cousin Surströmming (lactic acid fermented herring) are two entries on my "Foods I Won't Eat" list.
who the fuck doesn't eat lamb?
A very unexpected and cozy upload today is very much welcomed
That is an amazing view back there
Surströmming next. I’ll send you some Ian.
Fermented Herring. Started out as pickled herring where the people who made the pickled herring didnt use enough salt (expensive), sold it to the Same people up north when they came south to trade. Basically scamming them, but they loved it.
Surströmming is very good though once you get past the smell, some condiments and flat-bread and it's a great meal!
Hmm. I wonder how similar that is to the garam of ancient Rome ?
There is something similar to it in Norway ’Rakfisk’ made the same way with fermentation and autolyzed using trout or char. Smells less then surströmming, but taste and texture is close.
Yes! Honestly make this a regular thing though 😂 we'd love it
If you want to try something that is truly smelly, try fermented stinky tofu (that's actually the name). The first (and last) time I opened a jar of it, it smelled as if I had a huge gas leak in my home.
I like these slice of life episodes. It’s nice to see Ian experiencing the cultures of the countries he visits for his main stuff for the channel.
Beach Episode when ? 😄
I love how Ian can disassemble and reassemble guns like nothing but still struggles with a jar lol
He didn't have his Bic disassembly tool with him.
Seemed like possibly a last ditch attempt to avoid eating anything if the supermarket container is impervious.
I have been truly enjoying these videos as these are 2 of my absolute favorite channels combined!
There are trees in Iceland. About 2% of the island has forest cover, and attempts to extend that are in process. It will be a while before anyone can chop down trees for smokers, though.
''trees'' most people would call it shrubbery
You can smoke stuff with peat tho.
Edit: got to the peat part now 😅
@@ianwinter514 There are real trees. Birch, mostly, in the video I saw.
I recently got to try some hákarl and while it was a strong flavor it wasn't too bad. As Ian said it's like a stinky, ammoniated cheese, and I'm someone who will age stinky cheese until the smell will clear your sinuses.
Ian, thank you. This was such a departure from your usual amazing programming and it was a hoot. I have read about some of the foods from this area of the world and yes, I truly believe I would strongly contemplate eating my boots before many of their offerings. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
Really cool change of pace. Loved it Ian.
It's astounding to see Ian using a firing pin as skewers
Given that Greenland sharks breed and grow very slowly (They can live for something like 400 years, and are only mature at 150, so any born after the 1870's are still "young") it's probably for the best they are not that tasty.
From memory, (which may be wrong) there are only a few people who have a special government license to make this stuff, and they are only allowed to use already dead sharks that get found at sea or washed up on the beach.
The one that had its eye lenses radiocarbon dated to 392 years old with an error bar of 120 years (so between 272 to 512 years old) was only 16.5 feet (and they've been recorded up to 24 feet). They can get much older.
Shark cheese...
Thats what I was going to say. 👍 🤣
Count me out I'm not a fan of "good strong French cheese" 😂
Flavors that best remain forgotten.
I wouldn't want to milk a shark
I am Norwegian and I have a lot of Icelandic relatives. I have had these several times. They are not very good and usually only brought out when there is alcohol on the table (usually Brennivín...)
Gotta have that solvent (alcohol) to remove the taste of solvent (ammonia) 😅
I think they only make this in order to sell Brennivin. I had a shot of it after trying the shark and thought it tasted so good... turns out it's not as great without having fermented ammonia beforehand lol
You foreigners have no taste.
This reminds me of an Idiot abroad episode with Karl pilkington whilst in Japan when he was given a “delicacy” of buried/fermented fish 😂
Gotta make a fork outta shell casings for forgotten feeds
Last time I was this early, the forgotten weapon Ian was covering was brand new!
Make a stop in the Faroe Islands next time. I'll treat you to Faroese "local delicacies" and "what they ate in the lean winter months".
In Scandinavia and the Nordics we have lots of 'delicacies' which all pretty much started as 'eat this rotten crap or starve' in famine times.
How it lived on to become delicacies I can not understand nor explain though..
Check out Maxes Tasting History on Þorrablót. He actually did the research
You honestly should do forgotten flavors just old military rations and stuff like that
A collaboration with MRESteve?
This is always fun with civvie friends. I cracked open a case of MREs for my wife one day and let her go through through one. Besides the horrified look on her face when she realized she just ate a 6000 calorie meal, she really enjoyed digging through the pack.
Hmm, & how much 'I just wanna kill somebody' is added to combat rations?
Wow, I have been going to Iceland on and off all summer for work. I do not remember such a glorious, clear skies day. A good day for trying some dubious food! Cheers Ian.
We had three days of miraculously beautiful weather up on the north coast
Iceland is stunning when the sun shines. Planning on trying some skiing there this winter! Did you do any shooting?
No shooting, but I did film a number of guns, including domestic production Icelandic ones
@@ForgottenWeapons interesting can't wait for Icelandic gun content
Yeah I think we need more of these, very enjoyable watch mate
This is great! I'd love to see more of this type of content in addition to the usual.
Please more vlogs I love this new type of content!
Look at that beautiful backdrop. I was lucky enough to travel around Iceland in 2014. I hope I'm lucky enough to go back one day.
This is one of my favorite videos you have ever done!
This is an awesome mix up of the channel.
This is excellent content that I didn't know I wanted
Old Forgotten Biological Weapons.
I don't think i've ever seen Ian laughs like dad. It's like a seeing your dad laugh, but he never really laughs.
Very cozy, very pretty landscape!
Hooking up with my favourite CZcams linguist in Iceland? Legend!
We really need more stuff like this. Maybe dabble into some Steve1989 stuff.
dammm yess
Nice
"No trees."
Pretty much explains why all the deck furniture looks like it is made from shipping pallets...🤔
the ammonia is there because the shark lives on increadible deapth most of the time. it protects proteins in the shark tissues from hydrostatic pressure
This is gold. I could watch a series of this!
These crossovers need to keep being a thing, so much fun when they get together!
I agree with the majority here: we need a secondary channel - Forgotten Flavors! And then team up with Max Miller.
Beautiful mountains in the background.
Loving the collaborations with Jackson, fun to see you step out of your comfort zone.
"I would definitely eat it if I were starving "...what a ringing endorsement!!! 😅
I wouldn't and I'm Icelandic 😅
Forgotten Flavors sounds amazing
This deserves to be a regular series^_^
Guns and hunting/exotic foods is my favorite content. Forgotten Flavors seems right down my alley
I had a shark taco. Friend asked how it was. "Like a fish taco, but with bite."
Ian can tear apart an obscure weapon that only a couple were ever made without difficulty.........has trouble opening a plastic container. LOL.
Somehow making charcoal briquettes from grass is more appealing than the horse option...
That scenery. I'm envious.
I always wonder how people figure out the process of how to make these poisonous things edible
Of course, Ian finds a way to relate it to something French. Bon appetit!
Great video, that background is amazing
Really pleased to see Jackson Crawford on this channel he makes great content
Next on the list; surstromming
You know what I'll just stick with an even more dangerous delicacy, the McDonald's "Fish sandwich" 🤢
This is great. More of this please!
Forgotten Flavours is such a awsome name, i need more of this
Ian, I used to always stop over in Iceland on my way to Norway and/or Denmark and back home to the USA. I would take a day to trail ride an Icelandic Horse(pony). The strangest thing I ate there was leg of lamb that was not fresh lamb, but lamb that had been processed the same way we process fresh pork into ham. It tasted lust like pork ham. Being half Celtic, I was sorely disappointed because I love traditional baked leg of lamb with potatoes and carrots. I am sure many Icelanders miss eating whale meat and "Muk Tuk" since they no longer hunt whales. I wanted to try horse meat, but some Icelanders only eat it on special occassions so it is not served to tourists. Did you stop there because of a connecting flight to Europe or USA?
Was the lamb smoked?
@@andriandrason1318 It was decades ago so I am not sure. In the USA, Pork ham is sugar cured or salt cured, and smoked.
Icelandic horses are not ponies.
Culinary, the most unforgotten weapon against weight loss
This is really pleasant, it's nice to see Ian enjoying his holiday
I cannot explain how much I love short and fun non-weapon content like this with Ian! Obviously Steve has this on lock but I'd love to see Ian MRE reviews!
When in Finland, did ya get a chance to eat lefsa and lutefisk? Lefsa happens to be my favorite breakfast food, but lutefisk is... well... not... Ya try it?
I have eaten a lot of lutefisk.
@@TheErilaz I'm afraid I don't have much taste for it. Tho, I have to say lefsa is my favorite breakfast food.
You are a braver man than I, sir
I love this channel. This seriously would be a nice regular edition to it. I'd personally love a surstromming video.
Love this stuff from you guys
I like the constant sadness on the face of the guy with the hat :)
He has the face of a man who would appear in a Ford commercial
@@cheyannei5983 That is possibly the most subtle casting of shade I've ever encountered on CZcams. You may consider my hat [grabs one and puts it on] duly tipped in appreciation. 😄
@@cheyannei5983 Hey, 265,000 miles on my F150 can't be wrong.
As a former culinary arts student, I would try those foods.
As a fat alcoholic, I would try them too.
I've heard of the Inuit of northern Canada burying something (walrus?) and it almost becoming somewhat rotten, but if you get used to eating it, it won't make you sick.
I believe fermented whale blubber was treated in the same fashion.
What an amzing landscape you guys sit in
Petition for forgotten flavors to be a regular thing!
Okay now do Swedish surstromming! :D
Really fun! Thanks for the upload!
Next Week, Jack Crawford explains Gungnir with Ian