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  • Idiotic commenters would think eating whale poop is beautiful if it was a dish eaten by some village in the middle of nowhere. Did you watch the video? Half the Icelanders said it smelled like piss and had a taste to match. They just eat it because its "tradition". Derp.

  • look at his balls..xD

  • Awesome, so it's like VIKING food!

  • @daniyellowjello

    the shark was discoverd by an icelandic fisherman in greenland in 1600 somthing,

    but the rest off the meals there on the table, is all kinds goodys that gose many many hundrends years back, torchd sheep head,

    my older sister eats Cow toung, back when i was a toddler, then my dad had a farm, and his mothere and siblings all eat eya balls toung heart kidny you name it,

    nothing got thrown away.horese meat seals, you name it

  • this is tasty stuff,

    smelly as hell but very good taste

  • I've been there, and I've met Hildibrandur, so this made me really happy to see it all again (even though not in person this time). It's an incredible (if slightly smelly) place, definitely worth visiting. I love Iceland, it's an wonderful place with a wonderful culture, and using natural process to make something edible in order to survive is damn clever and should be commended!!

  • That looks foul. But I suppose every country eats something that others think are odd.

  • That's fascinating! Gross as hell... but fascinating : ]

  • I would eat the shit out of a shark

  • That looks like a great party and it would be interesting to try the shark - I don't think I would want an entire meal, but then again, I don't think anyone has a whole meal of haggis either.

  • @RobinAlanaBerry

    hehe u silly gose,  the food on the table is not all shark,

    maybe 10 diffrent type´s of food, all kinds of goodys

  • I'm scared to try because of the whole gag reflex thing (I have emetophobia, fear of vomiting), but I think one of the best ways to really understand a culture is to try the food. My family is planning a trip to Iceland within the next couple of years, does anyone have any tips for trying hakarl?

  • @pogmofoil just expect a really strong taste and do not smell it the smell is sometimes worse then the taste. you could also drink a shot of vodka before eating but of course not everybody wants to drink or should based on age. just remember to expect a strong taste. and don´t put it up to your nose.

  • @darkmetaly Thank you! I've heard that the smell is far worse than the taste.

  • @pogmofoil also the taste takes a while to kick in sometimes.

  • fucking disgusting

  • :) 

  • But yeah, alot of the shit that I'm talking about is just flat out

    disrespect. There's nothing clever about it over here.

    I mean people just flat out call you a *insert racial slur*

    And it's really hard to get a job if you're of color. Look up Native American reservations. Those places are just fucking sad pitiful stuff

    to look at. It breaks my heart that with all this "money and technology" we still got shit like this in my so-called "great country." It's just fucking sickening.

  • @youaremyoffspring Not all White Americans are ignorant. I happen to be a white boy from North Carolina and I grew up eating raccoon,squirrel,deer,rabbit,e­tc. I see nothing wrong with using the resources found in your environment. I think the shark in this video would be something interesting to try actually. Don't generalize all whiteys because not all of us are the same.

  • @HorrorLurker

    Well hey man, I'm from Oklahoma and it get's pretty

    rough out here man. I'm southern boy like you.

    But it ain't right for a native boy like me to get

    the lickings that i get! fuck that!

    I'm a goddamned American! Actually, Native

    American!!!!

    Seriously it's a lot of bullshit bro.

  • @HorrorLurker it ain't right. Am I right?

  • @youaremyoffspring I'm a southern motherfucking son of a bitch just like you and every other southern motherfucker...but I'm just de-tested by all the dumb bullshit people say! Aren't you on the same page?

  • @youaremyoffspring It's just going to get worse. I don't believe it is a fault of any race persay. It is the fault of the PARENTS who are raising these idiots who think they're entitled to everything. Most people 18 to 35 wouldn't know how to live off the land if they had to. I'm moving to Southern Florida in a few years with my gf and can't wait to have a year around garden. I also plan on fishing and hunting gators for most of what we eat.

  • 2:19 Sick couple eating together

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  • @guitarmaniac927 it smels bad but. dose not taste like it.. it is strong tast.. i love it

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  • only one word to describe this...pee(follwed by a weird perverted laugh)

  • @darkmetaly This is true. People in ancient cultures had to use every resource available, and someone way back when hit on the way to eat the Greenland Shark. Modern people do not realize that in the old days enormous effort was spent just finding enough food to keep oneself and your family alive. Farms yielded slowly. Crops failed. Hunting animals and fishing were all dangerous. Enemy people contested with you for food, and predators wanted to steal the food or eat the human too.

  • But yeah, people that go, "Ewww that's gross!' Are really immature and need to grow the fuck up.

    All those burgers and fried foods they scarf down prolly gross out other people from around the world.

    I'm sorry, but not every American is that fucking stupid. They do not represent the open-minded educated demographic that people like me belong to. Sorry for our dumbasses world, we'll try to keep to 'em on a leash. ;)

  • @youaremyoffspring i love eaing sheeps head að shark is wone of the best. thank god that macdonald is not here.. its so good to eat steroids.

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  • I'm Icelandic and i think shark is delicious. People really have to try it at least once in their lifetime

  • My only problem with this video was the fucking lame ass Narrator...Mr. Stunted Speech.

  • eeiiw...unsa man nah ui

  • This is really fascinating! Incredible how my ancestors used these methods to be able to eat these sharks :)

  • dont fucking eat that 

  • The shark is actually quite good. In fact, I consider it a delicacy.

  • dont hate on icelanders!!! iceland is awesome! if your reading and from iceland I respect you and your customs!

  • Did that guy eat an eyeball at 2:41 ?

  • OMNOMNOM

  • hmm needs salt.

  • respect for wanting to maintain good community, but 2:29 guys speaks truth.

  • Oh I ate this stuff once on a trip to Iceland. It was pretty nasty. My dad wouldn't eat any but I had the rest of the bowl. It almost made me sick for dinner...

  • Not at as bad as Lutefisk. Both happen to be of Nordic origin. Crazy Scandinavians. 

  • I was more excited they were singing the ketchup song :L

  • very interesting. I'm very openminded when it comes to traditions. if they have eaten shark meat for hundreds or thousands of years then i'm sure it cannot be bad for you. the look of the meat is great. but i wouldnt like it if it smelt too much of bleach

  • what is wrong with some of these people who are commenting hate full things about my peoples traditions. and some of you say why would people have eaten this in the old days. the answer is simple we Icelanders had nothing back then we had to life of the land and the sea around it. we did not waste any part of the animal because it was food that we needed to eat or else we wood have starved to death. so how would you guys like it if I started mocking your traditions and hating on your culture ?

  • @darkmetaly just noticed a spelling error it´s suppose to be would. not wood I really need to start going over my  spelling errors.

  • @darkmetaly I, for one, wouldn't care. I measure my own value purely according to my own consciousness / being, not as a sum of people and traditions around me. (Don't get me wrong, I totally agree you would not waste any part of an animal to survive, that's nothing but logical).

  • @Smonjirez of course you life the way you like to life. but I for one love to learn about different traditions and customs It one of my life passions. now that I think about I should not care what other people think and just enjoy my the customs I like.

  • @darkmetaly And that was my point (Y).

  • @Smonjirez sorry my grammar kinda sucks.

  • @darkmetaly yea, i agree. i would love to go/ bein Iceland. we US people eat turkey, cow, and more. so what? what they find a tradition.

  • @darkmetaly I fully agree with you.. Here in Cyprus we eat strange things too like snails, sun dried meat with oregano, or even soaked in wine and then smoked meat, sun dried octapus, meat stored in pork fat and many else. And the reaon is simple: in the old times there weren't any refrigerators in order to store the meat during hot summer months, preserving food was a way for people to survive.. I heard about leaving cheese to rot but never about sharks, it looked nice when he cut it...

  • @savvakissss yes I don´t think its that bad I have eaten plenty of shark. and its a taste where you just have to get use to. in order to like it.

  • @darkmetaly yes, it's all a matter of habit afterall!

  • @savvakissss

    All you said sounds really good, no joke. I've always been a fan of beef jerkies so this makes me want to go to Cyprus.

  • I like trying traditional food of other countries, there are interesting facts about it in almost every country, besides food is an important part of each country's culture! I'm sure that if I come to Philippines I 'll see dishes that I've never imagined before, most interesting for me is the way people used to preserve their food before refrigerators were invented,Cyprus is a small country but with two different cultures (Greek & Turkish side) so there are plenty of things to see and taste!

  • @darkmetaly The entire world already does.

  • @CrocoDuck420 maybe

  • @darkmetaly Hey, that's very wise and respectful what you said. No offense, until I met some Non-American white folk, I used to think all caucasians were heartless, cultureless spoiled douches.

    But only that variety of white people exists in America.

    You guys that don't live in dumbfuckistan (America, my stolen land) actually have culture and tradition. I respect that. My brother a native american lives in france and told me the white people there are 50 times nicer than here in the states

  • @youaremyoffspring exactly my friends mostly are americans whit they mind set on we are the biggest shit but they are not they are just bullies that think they shit don't stink

  • @jjulianestrada1 Hey, I don't think I truly will belong to the demographic of da American fool.

    Because on top of that, I'm Native American like an actual savage Nightwolf style off

    Mortal Kombat native. Like full blood, not no half this or, "my grandmother was cherokee!" bullshit. I'm the real deal.

    So anytime someone talks about the decadency of Americans, I'm right up there with you foreigners on talking shit about people here. Cause hell! I get treated like a foreigner in my own land!

  • @darkmetaly its ok most people dont have a culture example Americans and dont now about traditions in Mexico whit call those people "tapados" meaning dumb asses whit out culture and they are trolls whit no life

  • @darkmetaly You be proud of your traditions sir or ma'am, People will be stupid because they grew up in a world where food is plentiful and they are ungrateful. Don't worry about negative comments.!

  • @TheOrderoftheOwl its sir and thank you

  • @darkmetaly You have a great country and culture to be proud of :) Very progressive, open-minded, friendly people and I look forward to visiting Iceland soon

  • @pogmofoil thank you and I hope you will have a nice time.

  • I'd prefer eating this rather than eating testicles.

  • 1:00 Oh, doesnt that look appetizing? And how about the sound?

  • "It's a social thing"... dumb yuppies will eat anything.

  • Well. . Maybe sometimes rotten edible things might be good. . Doesn't it smelly?

  • @yukiharvestfans yes it has a very strong smell

  • pause at 0:35

    giant testicles? O.O

  • I would try it just so I can develop my OWN opinion of it. As of now, I'd prefer chinese shark's fin soup since we're talking about edible shark products

  • poor shark.... BUT that does look YUMMY!!!!!

  • MMMMMMMMMMMM YUMMEH!!!

  • 0:41 trolololololo trololo lololo

  • who the fuck invented this they r so cruel they should rot in hell

  • @alexsavesharks Wat? How's it cruel?

  • @cabbage0dusk they killed that shark

  • @alexsavesharks That's not cruel, that's nature.

  • @alexsavesharks wtf, fuck u

  • i am from iceland and i eat this like candy

  • yyyyyuck....

  • when he cut it and it looked all pale and clean white, it actually looked pretty good

  • +.+ im dead

  • I would eat that nasty shit if I could get with that hot Icelandic blonde babe!!

  • Oh yaw, this nasty ass rotten shark is going to be very good. Let's let it rot two more months, yaw.

  • wtf sort of a fucking tradition is this

    no wonder that country is so fucking small

  • honey badger dont give a shit

  • that's fuckin disgusting

  • GOOBLE GOBBLE

    GOOBLE GOBBLE

  • i would rather eat shit and die

  • after they Died,, they should let their bodies Decay or be rotten...before they put it in grave.

  • Vikings my fucking ass! Icelandics are no vikings.

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  • @TheVoorwaarden, So Leif Ericsson and Eric the Red weren't Vikings?

  • @charliesommers494 The only 'Vikings' Americans know about I'm sure.. they were exiled and thus are not Vikings. Anyway they should give the back the money they stole from us!

  • First thing i said.... What the fuck.

  • Fucking Ice cunts

  • why no blood?

  • 2:02

    "Ah yes, yes, the Shark nearly smells just like my ass."

  • ητ σιτ

  • Tried shark the other day. Tastes like crap. Can't imagine eating it all rotten.

  • now the Chinese thousand year eggs actually didn't look that bed huh

  • Yes, don't forget how your crappy ancestors use to eat urinal cakes made of rotted shark anus. So much for realizing what century you live in.

  • Fuck crazy pigs of society

  • Why can't they just eat a slice of pizza and call it a day?

  • well, maybe it has something to do with the Icelandic language being so hard to understand...

  • looks like cheese...

  • thats not meat is it? looks like fat and blubber? wtf. lol

  • "It's a social thing for us to come together and eat this....Its like AMMONIA"

    LOOOL, yummmm ammonia

  • 0:34, is that it's balls O_O...i didnt know sharks had balls

  • @0:59 Sounds like my wife's ass when I slap it

  • @Derail07 lol, sounds like a waterbed... a waterbed for an ass? :D

  • @Derail07 roflrofl

  • the inside of it actually looks pretty nice

  • you know what gross as this shit is. hmMMhmmmm k they do what they want. it's culture.

  • they got a pair, i'd NEVER eat that.

  • the town of Reyjkjavik ? it's the friggen capitol

  • I had Greenland Shark and although it smells terrible it's actually tastes pretty good if u cut off the dried out pieces

  • I've eaten baked shark in the caribbean.It's amazingly prepared not to mention the advantage of tropical seasonings.

  • James May does not recommend this

  • 2:26 "It's like ammonia" I laughed so hard.

  • 0:32 for shark balls

  • who the fuck was the person who did that the first time and thought it looked tasty?

  • @sarahdoodles it's likely that it could have been discovered in some sort of short local famine, and a slightly rotten carcass of a shark or small whale would have washed up on a beach and, thinking there was nothing else to eat, ate that and was pleasantly surprised (considering that the rest of their diet would have consisted of stale bread and rotten fish). Fresh shark may have been tried and ended up killing whoever ate it, so they thought "well it was rotten when we found the first one ..."

  • @HaniiPuppy Yeah if there is something I've learnt from Bizarre foods is that a lot of this random rotton stuff came about as a way for peasant folk to preserve whatever food they have. Still this is one hell of a process to have come up with..and a brace guy who tried it the first time..

  • @sarahdoodles I wondered the exact same thing, I wonder who ate the very first Blow Fish too?

    *Man eats the very first Blow Fish*

    *Hey guys! Oog Died!*

    *Well dont eat that then*

  • @sarahdoodles Simple, someone was starving in iceland and found the rotting carcass of a shark and ate it out of hunger. he told his clan or whatever and it was introduced

  • @sarahdoodles it was probably eaten because of the smell. the ammonia smell is also present in lutefisk, which is a norwegian fish, and iceland was inhabited by ancient norwegians. just my idea

  • @aurielMoon Holy shit you are so fucking stupid.

    NOT NORWEGIANS, THE NORSE. NORSEMEN, NOT NORWEGIANS.

  • @TheClarenceter I'm sorry, I was under the impression that Viking raiders from Norway were the ones who ended up populating Iceland. No need to be so so fucking rude. I'm not the only one to make a mistake on the internet. Lighten up, will you?

  • @aurielMoon Yes, and the NORSE were not NORWEGIANS.

    Norwegians are present in modern society while the Norse does not.

  • @aurielMoon Are not*

  • ICELAND STRONG

  • I WOULD LIKE TO MEET PRETTY , BLONDE HAIRED , BLUE EYED ICELANDIC GAL 30 TO 40

  • what's with the sick advertisements (as if the idea of commercialism isn't sick itself)?

  • Looks good, kinda like aged cheese.

  • Win. Gimme some.

  • why no blood?

  • The Vikings really did beat their opponents with their breath I guess.

  • Did that guy say it tastes and smells like piss?

  • Why not just lick the inside of a Urinal?

  • @mrceebees14  or just piss on a peice of fucking chicken and eat that instead

  • @mrceebees14 Because we Icelanders would not like to get too close to your mouth!

  • @mrceebees14 i got dareed to do that once SOUR LOL

  • The guy has the same name as my Cat ha.

  • I tasted this when I was in Iceland at the same place. When you put it in your mouth, for 10 seconds you don't get any taste at all, pretty much like chewing gum. Then, after chewing a bit, you get this FUCKING DISGUSTING ASS TASTE which makes you wish you never put that shit in your mouth.

  • @karindi1 There are real human beings... then there is your kind... thinking you can fill the shoes of real people... only to discover you can't. :)

  • @TraustiHraunfjord What the fuck does that have to do with human beings? We're talking about shark, a shark that's taste is disgusting...

  • @karindi1 As I said, human beings... not you. A human being would not use expression as "what the fuck" as one of the first things to say to another human being. You also talk about "Fucking disgusting ass taste"... which indicates you have been eating out of someone's ass, and therefore know the taste of that. Not what a human being does.

    Icelandic shark is a delicacy. I fully understand why many people don't like it, and why those who eat fucking ass (like you) will only talk shit.

  • @TraustiHraunfjord Oh, I guess i'm a moose or another kind of animal, since I clearly can't be a human being, just because I say words like "What the fuck," on Youtube, means i'm not a human. Also, I can say whatever I wan't, so either you shut the "fuck" up, or just man up and respect my opinion on Shark meat. Yup, makes sense. Anyways, I understand that it's a delicacy, but it's taste is just horrible.

  • @karindi1 Your mother must be very proud of your vocabulary.... no doubt.

    Anyway... my kids, a 4 year old daughter and 18 month old son, love the Icelandic shark more than anything else. I live 10.000 km's away from Iceland, so it is not as if I can just buy Icelandic food whenever I want. They love the taste... probably more so than most kids of today ... be that in Iceland or outside the country.

    Check my profile and watch the "Icelandic Shark Eater in Peru" video YT /watch?v=_SnvctCgEoo

  • @TraustiHraunfjord Ok, whatever, I really don't care. I hate it, you love it. End of argument. Bye.

  • @karindi1 No argument there :) Thanks for the exchange of words and opinions - and good luck in future food-tasting. After all, life would be pretty boring if everything had the same - or similar taste.

  • yeah people should stick to their traditions and have fun......i womder why my people stopped doing human sacrifices to the sin? we should of stick to our tradition and had fun lol

  • just eat something else 

  • Tastes like pee .... each to their own I supose

  • @seonidh

    Hákarl is better than McShitburgers in every way.

  • @TraustiHraunfjord indeed I suggest you go international

  • @seonidh nah... it is too good to be shared.

  • @TraustiHraunfjord spoil sport :-P

  • @TraustiHraunfjord Your arrogance precedes you.

  • @SaosinEngaged It does? Hopfefully that is true. At least I don't have to hide behind a McDonalds dumptster licking deepfrying fat off plastic-ware the same way you do. I go for the real rotten, stinking wonderful shark. Nothing to be ashamed of about that. Feel free to call it arrogance if it makes you feel better.

  • @TraustiHraunfjord well if your post was not arrogant, and ignorant, than nothing is

  • @poosaypirate The truth hurts... doesn't it? You bigassed hamburger, pizza and donut chewing Americans think you have it all... and when it comes to your hinies, you sure as hell seem to have more than most others... but size isn't all. Shitburger eaters should learn to call their food for what it is. Nothing arrogant about that... it is called "enlightenment". In Iceland we also have "Pissfish"... too good for you to have as well.

  • @TraustiHraunfjord well , far be it for me to have a circular conversation with a retard or a nationalist chauvinist bigot

    please run with a pair of scissors on a rocky road if nothing happens just set yourself on fire and jump off a bridge- it will make Americans go away!! PROMISE!!

  • @poosaypirate Just keep eating your shitburgers and other artificially produced "foodstuff", and THAT will ensure that the world will not suffer having any "mercans" around in a few generation's time. If you don't believe it, you should have a look at the history of big-assed animals (Dinosaurs)... they got extinct. Mercans have the same big-ass problem (obesity beyond belief). Happy extinction day to you all. The sooner the better.

  • the narrator is talking too slow

  • Ohh ! I guess is a "BIG DAMN OK" for western peoples eating sharks.

  • Now, that´s what I´d call Björk-meat ^^

  • gg

  • disgusting. 

  • @lgliggy Close minded American if you never eaten it then don't say shit.