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Cuisine


The faint of stomach may want to avoid hákarl, shark meat that's been buried for three months or more until it's putrefied.

The lamb dishes you'll find in gourmet restaurants, spiced with mustard or prepared as filets, are probably the best you'll ever have. But these newfangled lamb recipes are much different from the old, traditional (read: bizarre) dishes. That's not to say they're bad, they're just, well, different.


Take ram's testicles pickled in whey, for example. Or svið, a sheep's head that's been burned to remove the wool, cut in two, boiled, and either eaten fresh or pressed into jelly.

And then there's slátur (sounds like "slaughter" for a reason), sheep innards tied up in sheep's stomach and cooked. Adventurous travelers should at least try these surprisingly tasty dishes, which have been sustaining Icelanders since medieval times. A swig of Icelandic spirit Brennivin ("Black Death") or one of Iceland's many excellent vodkas always helps for a dose of courage.

Serge,

The Travel channel did a 'top 10' bizarre foods show last week and featured a short piece on hákarl (rotten shark meat). Was pretty detailed regarding why it must be buried to leach out the urine from the meat...

Those pickled ram's nuts are prolly pretty tastey, fresh Mountain Oysters are GREAT!

Mark,
I'll give all details of all the foods we eat...if I still be alive to tell it;-))

rotten shark meat is NOT for the weak of hearts
;-)))

Hungry or Horny???

:D

Mark,
I'll give all details of all the foods we eat...if I still be alive to tell it;-))

rotten shark meat is NOT for the weak of hearts
;-)))[/b][/quote]
Serge,

I think I would prefer the rotten shark to the phillipine street food "Balut" ...

When you are trying it out, be sure to sample both kinds:

"The the belly pieces are called glerh karl (glassy shark), and are not nearly as popular as the skyrhakarl, which is flesh from the body of the fish. The tough glerhakarl is recommended for beginners, as the soft skyrhakarl can cause an involuntary gagging reaction due to its texture."

from: http://www.learningspace.org/passport/may/...ulturehs2b.html

From what they were saying on the tv show, the main issue was the "pee smell" resulting from the unleached ammonia still present in the tissue. Visually, it looks similar to other air dried fish or aged cheese. A small horn of that "Black Death" seemed to cleanse their palates just fine... ;^)

One of the few foods that smells better coming out than it did going in....

If you eat that stuff on your trip, then our deal

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You're on....

Since you won't be at Internext in August... (and I probably won't either) Then January... In Vegas (at least if they do it in Vegas again...).. We can get Lens to put it up on stage...lololol[/b][/quote]



is definitely off...

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Last edited by sarettah at Jun 3 2003, 10:50 PM