8 Most Horrifying Foods Around the World (5 of 5)

8. Hakarl

Hakarl is nothing more than chunks of a Greenland shark’s meat. Only it’s all rotten to the last fiber. Those who have seen or tasted this dish note that the smell resembles an odor wafting from dirty public toilets. There are two types of hakarl: from rotten stomach and from rotten muscle tissue. When tasting it for the first time, inexperienced gourmands should hold their noses as the smell surpasses the taste. In Iceland, this delicacy is a must-have for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, and eating hakarl means being strong and manly, like a real Viking.