Stinky Foods: 5 Weird Facts About Hakarl

Marissa Brassfield

March 28, 2012

4. Hákari is a dish borne out of necessity.

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Like many unusual regional foods, hákari is the result of natives finding a way not to waste food. For Icelanders, that meant transforming a once-poisonous animal into an edible -- if malodorous -- foodstuff.

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