Ye Chao has eaten the food of many places in the world, but he is still shocked by the food eaten by the people of Greenland.

For example, there is a Greenlandic Inuit delicacy – Kiwiak.

As for this dish, after Ye Chao ate one, he didn't dare to eat it.

This is a traditional and important dish of the Inuit people of Greenland that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is generally made in the summer and saved for consumption in the winter when food is scarce.

After killing the petrel and putting it into the body of the dead seal, sealing it with seal fat after suturing, burying it in the permafrost, and taking it out for use after 2~3 years of acid fermentation by the seal, it is a way for the local people to take in vitamins.

Originally, people living in the Arctic Circle ate raw meat to supplement their vegetable intake, but as the custom of cooking meat became more and more popular, the opportunity to obtain vitamins from raw meat decreased, so this kiviak was eaten as a seasoning on grilled meat to supplement vitamins.

To put it simply, the people of the Arctic Circle used the rich nutrients produced by fermentation to obtain vitamins.

Here's how it works:

1. Catch about 100 petrels and 1 seal.

2. After killing the dwarf petrels, put them in a cool place for a day, and stuff nearly 100 petrels into the seals' stomachs.

3. Suture the seal's belly, expel the air, and coat the suture mouth with sun-dried seal fat to prevent maggots from growing and burying them in the permafrost.

4. Waiting for the stomach acid of the seal to ferment those seabirds, it will take 2~3 years in Alaska, and the warmer the place, the shorter the production time, because of the relationship between fermentation and temperature.

5. Dig out the seals and take out the petrels to eat.

Dig out the seal, then cut open the belly and remove the seabird, because the feathers do not ferment, so they will still maintain the original shape of the seabird;

Eating method 1: Pluck out the bird's tail, suck it from the seabird's ** with your beak, and suck out the fermented and rotten internal organs, which have a taste similar to bran and natto, as well as the taste of fermentation mixture.

Method 2: Apply the contents of the bird's belly to the barbecue and eat it.

In fact, it is too cold in the local area, and only by making food in this way can people have enough vitamins.

Because in these places near the Arctic Circle, the days are too short in winter, and people will have less and less food sources, so Kiwiak can be dug up and eaten.

In the eyes of the locals, the hearts of seabirds are considered the best and tastier.

This way of eating made Ye Chao dare not compliment, this is so special, he feels ...... The locals ate this delicacy like stinky tofu, however, after Ye Chao ate it once, he had no desire to taste it again.

In this icy and snowy place, locals treat seals as bread and animals such as polar bears, whales, and musk oxen as delicacies on the table.

No way, it was too cold there, they had no food other than meat.

Due to natural conditions, Greenlandic Eskimos used to live in scattered areas along the east and west coasts.

Between 870 and 930 AD, when the Scandinavians of Denmark and Norway settled in Iceland, the island in the North Atlantic Ocean was unable to accommodate its rapidly growing population, and people began to look for new land. In 986, hundreds of Icelanders migrated to the southwest of Greenland, and they were among the first to come to Eskimo settlements.

More and more Icelanders, Danes and Norwegians came here. In the beginning, these whites also followed the traditional pastoral farming, raising sheep for meat, milk and wool to solve the problem of food and clothing.

However, they gradually discovered that instead of enduring hardships and raising cattle and sheep, the local Eskimos had a relaxed and happy life of hunting and fishing.

As a result, these people completely changed their way of life, from domestic animal husbandry to hunting and fishing, and lived exactly like Eskimos. Later, as a result of intermarriage with the Eskimos, the descendants of these people gradually tended to be Eskimos over the centuries.

The Eskimos living in Greenland are mostly of mixed race, so they are specifically called "Greenlanders".

In 1700, the Danish government sent people to search for the descendants of Danes living in Greenland, but when they came here, they found only Eskimos, so the Danish government decided to help these Eskimos.

The government sent commissioners to deal with the affairs of the Eskimos and sent priests to teach them Christianity. Greenland thus became a Danish colony.

The Danish government does not allow any outsiders to enter the island, and even Danish citizens cannot settle in Greenland. The aim was to prevent dishonest whites from harming the simple, ignorant of the outside world's social conditions, and to make them slowly and orderly transition to a modern way of life.

In a way, the Eskimos of Greenland are lucky.

In contrast, the Eskimos, located in what is now Labrador in eastern Canada, were slaughtered by foreign invaders. The fishermen from New England, both in Europe and in the British colony, were so tyrannical and cruel that they killed Eskimos when they saw them.

Unarmed, simple and peaceful, ignorant of the social conditions of the outside world, the Eskimos had neither the ability to resist nor the concept of self-protection, and hundreds of innocent Eskimos died under the butcher's knife.

Denmark was the first government to help its own Eskimos. In the 20s, most of Greenland's inhabitants lived by hunting, but the number of seals they were able to catch was decreasing, partly because of overkill, and partly because of a warming climate that migrated farther north.

The warm waters attracted large quantities of cod and other fish, so the Danish government helped the Eskimos to start modernizing their fisheries. The Government lent money to the Eskimos to buy small fishing boats with motors, nets and other equipment, to build a fish processing plant and to export fish products. By the 50s, the government had taken full control of the fishing industry here.

In Ye Chao's impression, the world generally believes that Japan has the highest suicide rate, and the Nordic region is the place with the highest sense of happiness.

But in fact, the highest suicide rate in the world is not Japan, nor South Korea, nor the United Kingdom and the United States, but Greenland!

It sounds scary...... It is said that this was not the case in Greenland in the past, which made many people who heard about this phenomenon afraid to travel to Greenland again. However, this island is not accessible to ordinary people, and it is difficult for people with poor physical fitness to walk there.

Ye Chao is not an ordinary person, so he is not afraid.

He was not afraid of the weather there, nor of suicide there...... That didn't threaten him, let alone a gun, even if it was a cannon, it was difficult to threaten his life now.