Local delicacy
Sweden is generally rather clean and fresh in character and smell. Pine-scented forests, crisp Baltic and Nordic sea breezes, and the cosy-spicy aroma of baking pepparkakor (ginger cookies), are just a few typically Swedish things. Yet, two of Sweden’s oddest national dishes have a horrible stench: surströmming (literally, rotten fermented herring) and Gothenburg metal (a.k.a. Melodic Death Metal). Both are, shall I say, acquired tastes… Decay, death, sulfur, putridity. Does nice n’ cosy Sweden have an alter-ego, maybe?
