> The flesh of the Greenland shark is toxic because of the presence of high concentrations of urea and trimethylamine oxide (TMAO).
Evolution can be so clever.
- "The meat of the Greenland shark is poisonous when fresh because of its high urea and trimethylamine oxide content. However, when properly processed, it may be consumed safely.[3][4] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl
The reaction quotes are intriguing,
"That's hardcore. That's serious food. You don't want to mess with that. That's not for beginners." · "awful", "like a jellied cube of ammonia" albeit "technically edible" · "reminiscent of "blue cheese but a hundred times stronger" · "like chewing a urine-infested mattress"
It smells like cleaning fluid from under your sink cabinet though. That’s the main issue.
Your comment has made me want to try it. In your telling, it is probably a similar level of challenge as Natto:
Apparently commercial natto doesn’t really smell that bad because they figured out how to reduce it. If you enjoy smelly cheese, natto is comparable. Taste-wise, it’s meaty and takes soy sauce well and pairs well with rice. The slime isn’t great but kind of disappears into the rice.
I’ve heard traditional Natto is worse but I haven’t had it. Even in Japan, the natto I got was commercial. You can get natto at Denny’s Japan.
That said, I did have one friend that couldn’t stand the smell at all. Most friends that I’ve offered it to are mostly put off by the slime. They look like slimey spider eggs.
q coz of ur username.
just sayin ;)
(Where “redneck” is cultural slang for working class, uneducated man, or at least one with poor impulse control).
"How the heck are we going to get the alligator out of the pool?"
"Hold my beer..."
Country bumpkin
Hillbilly
Hick
Clodhopper
> With the help of a mathematical model that linked size with age, they estimated that one sixteen-foot female was at least two hundred and seventy-two years old, and possibly as much as five hundred and twelve years old. Because it is difficult to establish background carbon-14 levels in the ocean, and because Nielsen and his colleagues didn’t know which part of the ocean the sharks had been born in, the figure was inexact. Still, it firmly established Greenland sharks as the longest-living vertebrates on Earth. In theory, the biggest ones could be nearly six centuries old.
More fuel for the fire for the theory that we all get about the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime. Well, I'm off to do my weekly long run to lower my resting heart rate during the week.
I think it was in a reader's digest issue.
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)...
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i gave two links, you guys can google the others.