# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 466
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9311 "2023-11-11T15:13:03Z")
As a Scandinavian, allow me to disagree. Surströmming and hakarl are fermented and stink to high heaven. When you open a tin of surströmming, you do it outside or under water. Norwegian rakfisk is its kid cousin. Lutefisk is a jelly-which-once-was-fish, has a mild odor - at least compared to the others - and tastes faintly of soap. So while it’s quite inedible, it’s the last of those I’d choose as a biological weapon. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9312 "2023-11-11T17:13:42Z")
I’m glad to see hakarl represented. I had an Icelandic cookbook that was an object of horrified fascination. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9313 "2023-11-11T17:45:30Z")
I was once about 10 feet away as a can of surstromming was being opened under water and outdoors. I wasn’t nearly far enough away, but at least I wasn’t one of the ones that hurled. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9314 "2023-11-11T18:58:27Z")
You would rate them: Surströmming Hakarl Ludefisk ? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9315 "2023-11-11T21:04:15Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > Surströmming > Hakarl I’ve always thought they were pretty much the same thing. Same concept, anyway. Like different cooks making their own variation of something. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9316 "2023-11-11T21:36:05Z")
the question I always had in my head: when the can of Surströmming expires, does the product get better or worse? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9317 "2023-11-11T22:11:10Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > when the can of Surströmming expires, does the product get better or worse? It ceases to be a “product” and becomes an “explosion”. (More seriously, an authoritative [site](https://www.surstromming.com/expired-surstromming.html) indicates that it becomes something akin to “a grey grease”. Ick.) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9318 "2023-11-11T22:32:07Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > the question I always had in my head: > > when the can of Surströmming expires, does the product get better or worse? That’s the expiration date for the _can_, not the contents. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9319 "2023-11-11T23:50:38Z")
I heard that the Inuit used to age meat buried in the ground, but western types came along and said that was disgusting, it should be done in jars, which turned out for the worse as the jars retained toxins that the dirt would have leached away. I could have heard wrong, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9320 "2023-11-12T00:15:50Z")
It’s not leaching away toxins; it’s cutting off the supply of oxygen, which allows anaerobic bacteria like botulism to grow. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9321 "2023-11-12T00:19:33Z")
I don’t know how they were canning, but wasn’t meat that was buried also packed with a ton of salt? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9322 "2023-11-12T05:13:58Z")
Remember the I-85 bridge collapse in Atlanta in 2017 which was caused because the Georgia State Department of Transportation had a a state-owned storage area under the highway bridge, which contained high-density polyethylene and fiberglass tubing and this was set on fire by some homeless people? > **[Interstate 85 bridge collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse)** > > A massive fire collapsed an Interstate 85 (I-85) bridge in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, on the evening of Thursday, March 30, 2017. After the 92-foot-long (28 m) section collapsed, I-85 was closed to traffic for 43 days between its split with I-75 and the interchange with State Route 400 (SR 400) — approximately two miles (3 km). Three sections of northbound I-85 and three sections of southbound I-85 were replaced at a cost of $15 million; re-opening of the interstate was on May 12. > Three ... You would think that this would cause either the federal Department of Transportation and/or state departments of transportation to make sure this kind of situation wouldn’t occur elsewhere in the country. But not in Los Angeles where CALTRANS rented the space to a firm which put large storage yards of wooden pallets under this I-10 bridge. > **[10 Freeway closed in downtown LA after massive fire at storage yard](https://abc7.com/downtown-la-fire-10-freeway-closed/14044563/)** > > Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency in L.A. County to help facilitate cleanup and repairs after a pallet fire shut down portion of the 10 Freeway in both directions. It’s not clear yet to what extent repairs will be needed and how long they will take–but you would think that with that much heat there would be serious damage. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9323 "2023-11-12T09:19:45Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > We ought to be able to outrun it. Better than molasses, anyway. > > [Molasses can move surprisingly fast.](https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science) That’s what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9324 "2023-11-12T12:35:56Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Hot Carl I googled that and now I wish I hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9325 "2023-11-12T14:35:34Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I googled that and now I wish I hadn’t. I’ll bet some dirty Sanchez made it up. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9326 "2023-11-12T14:55:48Z")
You think I’m going to google that now? 🫣 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9327 "2023-11-12T15:05:00Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > You think I’m going to google that now? Is there a word for a “google trap” like this? If not, I’m going to invent one, a google trap. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9328 "2023-11-12T16:35:21Z")
Apropos of nothing: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dhJ5uIbk6K8/maxresdefault.jpg "Cleveland Streamer (feat. The Mad Armenians)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJ5uIbk6K8) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9329 "2023-11-13T07:22:24Z")
Wait…I thought that was called a “Glass Bottom Boat.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9330 "2023-11-13T07:30:17Z")
Let’s not forget the beloved “Chicago Sunroof” either, or the “Hoboken Squat Cobbler”. (For @TokyoBayer, I promise those are actually okay to Google, as bad as they sound.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=465) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=467)