I just found this post in the deep dark bowels of my drafts folder. I never uploaded it. This post dates to my five unsupervised days in Amsterdam.
So apparently raw herring is a classic Dutch food. Typically it’s served with pickles and raw onion.
For anthropologic purposes, I felt the need to try it. I found this sandwich at a canalside farmer’s market. I reasoned that if I can eat sushi, I can eat raw herring.
Actually, it was’t bad. It didn’t taste like a raw fish sandwich with pickle and onion. It tasted like a pickle and onion sandwich with a mysterious cold sliminess underneath. Which sounds grosser than it really was.
It might not have been an experience to repeat, but I ate the whole sandwich and lived to post the tale.