We often use "color, aroma" as the criterion for judging food, but there are also many smelly foods that people like around the world, such as: stinky tofu, canned herring, and smelly shark meat.

The Eskimos living in the polar regions also have a smelly food: pickled puffin. This kind of food makes people stay away from it both in terms of its preparation method and its smell.

And the stinky food is so stinky that even canned herrings can only bow down!

Eskimo means "raw meat eaters", but Eskimos prefer to call themselves "Inuit".

In our opinion, eating raw meat is too primitive, and even feels a bit like drinking blood.

But in fact, they eat raw meat out of necessity.

The Eskimos live in the Arctic region, where the temperature is low all year round, and there is a thick layer of permafrost under the surface, which is not suitable for the growth of large plants at all. Therefore, there is a shortage of energy sources such as wood, and they cannot cook food with fire.

In desperation, the Eskimos had to feed on raw meat, which just met their vitamin needs.

It turns out that except for summer, the Arctic region is covered with ice and snow in other seasons. Plants cannot be found, and Eskimos cannot obtain vitamins from plants.

Fortunately, raw meat contains some vitamins, and eating raw meat ensured that they would not suffer from scurvy.

Because the polar regions are covered with ice and snow all year round, the Eskimos living here cannot develop agriculture or domesticate livestock. They can only make a living by hunting. One disadvantage of hunting is that: the source of food is not fixed. For example, when the temperature is warmer,

In the high summer, many mammals, birds, and fish will swim to the Arctic areas to breed and breed. At this time, food is very abundant.

But in winter, the temperature in the polar regions can drop to more than 30 degrees below zero, and ice and snow cover the entire polar region. Animals have also migrated to the south. At this time, food sources are greatly reduced, and the Eskimos have a difficult time in winter.

In order to survive the winter, Eskimos must find ways to store part of their food during the season when food is abundant, and pickling puffins are the way they thought of storing food.

In the summer, thousands of puffins migrate to the polar regions to breed and breed. At this time, Eskimos will use homemade tools or climb directly to the cliffs where they nest to catch puffins.

After catching the puffins, the Eskimos will immediately kill them, and then continue to capture them. When about a hundred are captured, the Eskimos can use them to make pickled puffins.

The method of making pickled puffin is very simple. First, cut open the belly of a hunted seal, dig out all the internal organs in the seal's belly, and then stuff the puffin directly into the seal's belly.

It is worth noting that these puffins were not plucked or cleaned, and the food residues in the intestines were not cleaned out, but were stuffed directly into the seals' bellies.

Then, local women will use needles and threads to sew the seal's belly, and then apply grease made from animal fat on the sutures to prevent air from entering the seal's belly.

Finally, it is placed on the ground and the seal is pressed down with stones to reduce the air flow in the seal's belly.

The rest is all left to time. The fermentation time takes about 3 years, and the time will be shorter in warmer places.

After the fermentation is mature, people will open the seal's belly again and take out the pickled puffins from the seal's belly. If you are nearby, please flee as soon as possible because the smell of pickled puffins is worse than anything you have ever smelled.

The smell is very strong, and even canned herring, which is famous for its smell, cannot compare with the smell of pickled puffin.

Even more unacceptable is the way to eat pickled puffin.

We know that the puffins are not washed, their feathers are not pulled out, and their intestinal residues are not cleaned when they are pickled. When locals use pickled puffins, they sometimes suck the fermented auks directly into their cloaca.

The visceral fluid, or the brain fluid of the head.

A more sophisticated way to eat it is to pluck the feathers from the whole body of the marinated puffin and eat its meat.

No matter which way you eat it, the smell is very strong and makes you uncomfortable after smelling it. Some foreign netizens tried the smell of pickled puffin and were immediately vomited by the smell.

Since there are so many delicious and delicious foods, why eat smelly foods?

In fact, everyone likes to eat smelly food. The reason why they eat smelly food is because of lack of resources.

In areas where food is scarce, people will find ways to extend the shelf life of food, such as air-dried food and fermented food.

During the fermentation process, protein foods will decompose to produce odorous gas, forming a source of odor.