Youjo Senki Shokudou - Vol. 2 Ch. 10 - Surströmming

[MangaDex]

 

[MisterTV]

Hello, everyone!

English isn't my native language (I'm from Austria, so my first language is German).
I translated this from Japanese into German, and then used AI to help translate it into English. Sorry if the English sounds a little unnatural, it's hard for me to tell.

I hope you enjoy it anyway

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Thanks for the translation, I think it was fine!

On pg 19, got any idea what incident this was? Tried googling for "surströmming abandoned decades old military" but got nothing.

 

[Shiden]

The article is old (2014) and paywalled, but the story seems to check out... mostly: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...-to-disarmament-of-fermented-herring-tin.html

A cabin-owner in Norway has called in a fermented herring expert from Sweden to “disarm” a 25-year-old can of ‘surstromming’, the odorous Swedish delicacy, which he had become terrified would explode
Inge Hausen, a pensioner from the village of Tyrsil, contacted an explosions expert from the Norwegian army in desperation after finding the can, which had swelled so much that it had lifted his roof by two centimetres.
He was referred to Ruben Madsen of Sweden’s Surstromming Academy, who will travel to Norway next Tuesday to carry out the procedure, watched by crowds of journalists and aficionados of the odorous Swedish dish

A Vice article (https://www.vice.com/en/article/someone-threw-a-fermented-fish-bomb-at-a-swedish-music-festival/) also mentions the incident, in an article about someone who bombed a music festival by strapping an actual explosive to a can of the stuff:

While there’s no record of anyone dying from an exploding can of surströmming, there’ve certainly been some close calls. In February [2014], surströmming expert Ruben Madsen was called in to “disarm” a 14-year-old can of the fish that had been tucked under the eaves of a couple’s cabin in the Norwegian mountain town of Trysil, as the bulging can reportedly managed to raise the roof by two centimeters. The couple even notified Norway’s Armed Forces, just in case of accidental fish-blast.

 

[3leaves2]

thanks for picking this up!
the swedish title gave me whiplash though lmao

ty for the links @Shiden imma save this and share next midsummers eve
here's an article about exploding surströmming cans in a fire: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27258303

The cans of rotten Baltic herring, which had already expanded due to the powerful fermentation gases inside, were heated by the fire and began to explode over a period of six hours.

One of the cans flew over an outhouse roof, while another shot over the bay to a neighbour's house, Mr Englund said.

 

[1234muse]

explosive fish....

 

[llxUnknownxll]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[PLCMB]

Hello, everyone!

English isn't my native language (I'm from Austria, so my first language is German).
I translated this from Japanese into German, and then used AI to help translate it into English. Sorry if the English sounds a little unnatural, it's hard for me to tell.

I hope you enjoy it anyway

thank you for picking this up, kamerad

 

[tiniestkid]

The article is old (2014) and paywalled, but the story seems to check out... mostly: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...-to-disarmament-of-fermented-herring-tin.html



A Vice article (https://www.vice.com/en/article/someone-threw-a-fermented-fish-bomb-at-a-swedish-music-festival/) also mentions the incident, in an article about someone who bombed a music festival by strapping an actual explosive to a can of the stuff:

Cool stuff, thanks for sharing! For some reason the first link is restricted for me, it might be region-locked or something. Managed to find an archived version of it though: https://web.archive.org/web/2025081...-to-disarmament-of-fermented-herring-tin.html

 

[Devilman22]

Lol as soon as I saw the can I knew what was going to happen.

 

[Churkey]

Might as well use it as a grenade and toss it over