Food is something that everyone needs and loves but there are certain dishes that requires a lot of courage to try. Here’s a list of some such foods that only the strong hearted or adventurous can try!
Blood Pudding: Blódmör
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This dish is dipped in lamb’s blood and suet. It is made from the hard white fat on lamb’s kidneys and loins and often mixed with flour and oats to create a pudding.
Fermented Shark: Kæstur Hákarl
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Greenland shark or basking shark is the main ingredient of this dish. And what’s surprising – it’s poisonous. The dish is prepared by removing shark’s head and the body being buried in a shallow hole for six to 12 weeks.
Cod Tongues: Soðnar Gellur
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Icelandic food names are deceiving because for this dish you aren’t actually eating cod’s tongue. You are just eating the meaty, triangular muscle behind and under the tongue.
Dried Fish: Harðfiskur
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A popular Icelandic food item that is made up of dried fish, usually cod or haddock. Tonnes of dried fish are consumed each year with butter on top to soften the dry texture of the fish.
Hung & Smoked Meat: Hangikjöt
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It is a popular Christmas delicacy made from meat (lamb or mutton) that is smoked with birch or dried sheep dung. The boiled dish is customarily served with peas, potato mash and a white sauce called ‘uppstúfur’.
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