Would You Rather Eat Putrified Shark Meat or Jump Out of a Plane?

Hákarl is shark meat that's been fermented for anywhere between 6-12 weeks.

Chef Gordon Ramsay threw up after eating this Icelandic delicacy.

I did marginally better.

If presented with the same choice, next time I might jump out of a plane.

 

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Comments

[Karl Wilder]

03:50 PM on 04/06/2011

I have had the fermented shark and I would rather have it again than anything on the McDonald's or Burger King or Subway menu.

[alicetynan]

03:42 AM on 04/05/2011

Bravo Tori! You took one for the team big time there. Big. Time!

[AquaBuddha]

02:33 AM on 04/05/2011

Maybe it just wasn't the best kind of putrefied shark meat.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:01 PM on 04/04/2011

I'd consider the plane the best choice, even without a parachute.

I'm quite surprised that Mr Ramsey was able to get it into his mouth without gagging, given his famously discerning palette.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

02:20 PM on 04/02/2011

man bites shark but shark bites back
my money is on jaws,
sharkmeat does not belong
in man's paws!!!!

[GG NV]

02:17 PM on 04/02/2011

Any seafood that smells like ammonia I stay away from. Now Thresher, Mako and perhaps other types of shark meat are sold here and are very good infact with Mako it is excellent if its fresh. The key word here is FRESH.

[mmsuki]

01:27 PM on 04/02/2011

Although this story is humorous, there is nothing funny about the terrible Icelandic policy of killing whales and serving their meat in restaurants.

[Christina Coad]

12:14 PM on 04/02/2011

I'd jump. No question. No way I'd eat spoiled shark meat, not that jumping from a plane is on my list of things I want to do, but at least that would probably be a fun experience unlike eating some nasty meat.

[dourdinlives]

03:41 PM on 04/02/2011

i am a former green beret and US paratrooper. i not only jumped out of planes and helicopters including C141 starlifter jets since i was 17 years old but for a while i was actually a parachute tester. i test jumped steerable and cut out panel parachutes before they were put into military use. (some were found to be dangerous and were never used). i can say this about jumping out of planes. i did it because i was a battered, molested and abused child who spent time in orphanages and foster homes. i was probably immature, suicidal and and thought i had no reason to live, and wanted to be badder than everyone else... in short , i was the kind of person who joins the French Foreign Legion , or the green berets..As i began to grow older and after i had spent 2 years in Vietnam and doing other life threatening dangerous things and had matured a bit, i stopped taking risks. my advice to anyone thinking of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, is if you are happy with your life and you are lucky enough to have people in your life that love you, and need you..don't you dare risk your life. life is too precious, its not a pissing contest. but, rotten shark meat.. and spoiled shellfish,that will just make you throw up and have a horrific bellyache.

[Christina Coad]

01:32 PM on 04/03/2011

I'd be very happy to choose neither. I wonder though about diseases of undercooked shark....

thankfully I don't have to make this choice

[Geoffrey Bieniek]

07:07 PM on 04/03/2011

Uhhhhh.... thanks?

[ZANDALEE]

11:35 AM on 04/02/2011

I'll take the plane. I don't even care for properly cooked shark!

[JAROY]

10:10 AM on 04/02/2011

NOT EVEN IN THEIR DREAMS! ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT WE ARE EATING NOW.JUST PUT A LITTLE HOT SAUCE & KETSUP ON "IT"& PLUNK IT DOWN IN FRONT OF YOU,EAT IT WITH YOUR FINGERS OR A FORK ITS THE SAME,BUT NO THANKS.JAROY

[Andrewmc]

08:23 AM on 04/02/2011

I've eaten hakarl, and I've jumped out of an airplane. I'd rather jump again. None of the Icelanders I met could believe I was eating it. They all said "It tastes horrible. We only eat it at cultural festivals. I't nasty." So it's not exactly an Icelandic delicacy.

I've you've ever owned a fish tank and cleaned it out--hakarl tastes just like that smell.

[katedez]

04:08 AM on 04/02/2011

That is hilarious. Is it possible to nearly vomit and cry whilst simultaneously constructing erudite sentences? Apparently, yes! Thank god I’ve jumped out of a plane.

[GeneParmesanPI]

01:27 PM on 04/01/2011

i only eat shark that I personally strangle

[rich3324]

12:22 PM on 04/01/2011

It was funny on Anthony Bourdain's show when he ate this. Bottom line, he hated it.

[Nerf Hoeffelmeyer]

10:27 AM on 04/01/2011

Hakarl and Brenevin! Skal