Iceland food

Last Iceland post before getting to the Scotland posts, promise :)

So Iceland is really famous for four types of food:

1. Whale Steaks
2. Puffin
3. Fermented shark
4. Lamb

In a marked departure from my typical "I have to try everything" attitude, I'm not eating three of these four.

1. The whale steaks come from Minke whales, which are endangered and hunted in a questionably humane (although admittedly epic-sounding) way. Basically they strap grenades to harpoons, then try to stick the whale in the head with one of them. 
2. The only thing keeping the puffin from being endangered at this point is basically just the paperwork. They had two or three really bad bad breeding seasons in a row in the past decade, and the hunting laws didn't give them the breathing room to recuperate.
3. The shark stinks. Apparently it smells like a mix of cheddar cheese, sardines, and urine. Erik, my tour guide from the first day, said the way most people survive it is by taking a shot of aquavit before or after (or both).

So! On to what what I did eat.

In short, a lot of fish and lamb, chased down with good beer.

Day 1, lunch was some pan-friend flounder, and dinner was lamb tenderloin with potatos, along with a Nordic Saison.
Day 2, lunch was a lobster sandwich, and dinner was Korean spiced lamb chops, a white ale, and some apple pie with frozen skyr
Day 3, breakfast was skyr, cold cuts, and coffee, lunch was a bowl of lamb stew, and dinner was salt cod croquettes, a stout, and horse carpaccio (probably the only 'strange' thing I ate this trip).
Day 4, breakfast was an Icelandic hotdog (lamb hotdog with both raw and fried onions) and drinkable skyr, lunch was some grilled char and potatos au gratin, with a soda called 'Mix,' which was somewhere between a mountain dew and bubblegum. Dinner was a hake and potato stew.