[m0llusk]

There is an interesting series of scenes in the book Shogun where the main character gets some meat and wants to prepare it in the traditional manner by curing it. He hangs the meat outside but people are so disgusted by the stench that they steal it and dispose of it before he can eat it.

[floren]

Natto... funazushi... surely the Japanese should have appreciated stanky food just as much as a European.