I have made my thoughts thoughts on the Icelandic dish Hakarl, or fermented shark pretty clear, calling it The Most Disgusting Food On The Planet in a previous post. While in Iceland though, my friend Nick Mavricos and I had to find out, “Who the hell likes this (insert your favorite explicative here)?”

Akureyri is Iceland’s second largest sitting, clocking in with a whopping 17,000 people. Many of these people, we learned, do like fermented shark. We set out one night armed with a bag of fermented shark that Nick had purchased and realized after trying one piece that there was no chance he was going to finish it. Below is proof that, as disgusting as fermented shark is, some people, somehow, love it.