[SunkenCiv]

When the former production center for garum (see the "Fish Sauce..." topic below, I believe) was excavated, the interior of at least one off the jugs still had a residue, and the smell was apparently, uh, intact.

• Waiter, There's a Fish in My Wine!
• Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption [ garum / liquamen]
• Roman Shipwreck Discovered Near Aeolian Islands
• How a Ship Full of Fish Helped Recreate an Ancient Fish Sauce

[firebrand]

There goes my theory that if you leave a sardine can on the floor long enough the smell will eventually go away.

[Texan5]

Gag! I’ll bet those amphora fragments still smelled of fish sauce, too-the Roman fermented fish stuff sounds similar to the sauce from Thailand and other places in SE Asia that my dad developed a fondness for when he was stationed there. Anytime he went to the nearest city with an oriental market, we knew he would bring home a bottle or two of that gross stuff-and kimchee-to spoil dinner with just the stench rising from his plate...

I’m not delicate when it comes to food-I cook and eat grilled rattlesnake, cessos con huevos, etc-but sauce made from rotted fish is beyond my limits...