Inside the World’s Smelliest Factory

(via Great Big Story) What’s the strongest smell you can imagine? Blue cheese? Stinky feet? Ammonia? Nah. Surströmming. This Swedish delicacy, otherwise known as fermented herring, sits in large vats for months during the Nordic spring. In Söråker, a town on the High Coast of Sweden, second-generation cannery owner Jan Söderström oversees production of this uniquely Swedish and very smelly treat.