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Is there anything worse than lutefisk?

Yes. Ignunaq

(Fermented Walrus Meat - Take a bunch of walrus meat, at over a ton, there is lots. Wrap it in the hide tightly. Dig a hole on a beach and bury it. Wait six months or so. Eat... or not.)

The stuff has an odour. She had to wash her hands with toothpaste, then catsup at the end of the night to remove -sadly- only most of the odour. The meat has not been cooked. Only rotted.

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Ignunaq

Also made with seal meat. The result of fermenting meat protein in the absence of oxygen.

The meat is sealed in a hide and buried in late summer under a pile of rocks to press out the oxygen and prevent rotting.

In the spring it is dug up and eaten.

It is basically a form of Prosciutto or cheese based on meat protein rather than milk.

When the first white man offered cheese to the Eskimos they remarked that it was very much like, Ignunaq.