Greenland Shark

Off to the convention today, but I thought I’d mix things up a bit.

Got to reading about the Greenland Shark

Neat fish given that they’re Squallids (The same family as Dogfish) but HUGE!

Like the size of a Great White huge! But far more primitive. Neat little video here:

Unlike most sharks their meat is poisonous to eat, tho the denizens of Iceland found a way to make the meat “Edible” by fermenting and drying the meat in a bizarre food called Hákarl reading the descriptions of the ammonia tasting meat, I think the proper pronunciation of the food is Hot Carl

Strikes me as a food invented by those who are starving to death.

Still, neat fish, thought I’d share.

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0 Responses to Greenland Shark

  1. Jake says:

    Strikes me as a food invented by those who are starving to death.

    Kind of like lutefisk is a food invented by people with a very short fishing season and a very long winter.

  2. Dev says:

    Very interesting, thanks.

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