Surströmming Day Aug 18, 2022

Surströmming Day

Get your clothespins ready, it"s Surströmming Day! For the uninitiated, that means we"re in Sweden and cracking open this year"s surströmming harvest to enjoy its putrid wonder. Surströmming is Baltic herring that"s been caught in April and May, then lightly salted and allowed to ferment. Beginning in the 1940s, a royal ordinance forbade the selling of Surströmming before the third Thursday in August to prevent incompletely fermented fish from being sold. The ordinance is no longer on the books, but the tradition holds.

© Martin Wahlborg/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Aug 18, 2018Is that a buzzing sound?
Aug 18, 2019A splash by the sea
Aug 18, 2020Women s suffrage at 100
Aug 18, 2021Pearl of the Adriatic
Aug 18, 2023Avatar Mountains, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
Aug 18, 2024Huntington Beach Pier, California, at sunset
Aug 18, 2025Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Nov 13, 2024Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
Dec 19, 2021Aurora borealis
Oct 22, 2019Bobbing for crab apples
Aug 2, 2021This reef is nowhere near the sea…
Jun 23, 2018Commemorating peace in Antarctica
Sep 15, 2024National Hispanic Heritage Month
Nov 10, 2019Sunny day, sweepin the clouds away
Jan 31, 2022Incense making, Vietnam
Nov 29, 2021Rainbow Mountain
Nov 18, 2020An aviation celebration
Aug 24, 2022Ukrainian Independence Day
Dec 4, 2024Wildlife Conservation Day
Jan 12, 2019Sailing across the ice
Jun 30, 2024Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Sep 26, 2020Wandering Watkins Glen
Mar 22, 2022World Water Day
Oct 27, 2022Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy
Jan 7, 2020Jupiter and the Galilean moons
Dec 7, 2025Pearl Harbor Day
Jul 10, 2023A field of English lavender
Feb 14, 2021An oceanic valentine
Jan 8, 2018Gardens by the Bay nature park, Singapore
Oct 7, 2023Fat Bear Week
Sep 30, 2023Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Sep 3, 2018Construction workers resting above Manhattan
Dec 6, 2022Everglades National Park turns 75
Aug 18, 2025Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York
Aug 11, 2018Lace up your hiking boots for Mountain Day
Apr 3, 2023National Find a Rainbow Day
Nov 25, 2022Native American Heritage Day