Moving from Lyon to Iceland, the most famous (as well as notorious) food is kæstur hákarl, or fermented shark. The fish is buried for a few months, and then hung to dry for a few more. The meat is occasionally described as tasting like pee, with rumours going around that the species pees through its skin. Not quite, though the Greenland Shark from which hákarl is made does have high concentrations of urea (also present in urine) to help with deep-sea buoyancy.
Bonus:
The Greenland Shark is also the vertebrae with the longest lifespan: sometimes over 400 years. The sharks only reach sexual maturity at around 150 years of age.
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