"Apart from seafood you can taste reindeer, many kinds of birds as puffins, seagulls and cormorants then lambs and even horse meat. Beef is less common and much more expensive. If you want to eat cheapily, you have to eat hamburgers, pizza, French fries and all these kinds of fast food which is getting ordinary there.

Very delicious are all kinds of sweets, which is the heritage of Danish dominance. It can be for example vínarbraud- puff pastry with vanilla puding, or famous chocolate or carrot cake. Ingredients like bluberries, rhubarb, champignons, thyme and of course seewead are used in Icelandic cuisine. Strangeness in this cuisine is lichen which grows on lava slopes.

Meals:

Hákarl- Běla

Hangikjöt- which means in fact hung meat. It’s smoke- cured lamb or mutton meat. This meat is smoked from smoke of birch or dried sheep’s droppings. It’s served often with sandwiches or with melon cutted in slices.

Harðfiskur (hardfiskur)- is meat of codfish dried in the air. Dried and tender codfish is eaten with butter and bread, often instead of chips during watching tv.

Sild is pickled herring which is traditional meal for Christmas.

Kleinur are doughnuts fried traditionally in mutton tallow.

Rúgbrauð is traditional rye brown solid bread with sugary taste. It’s sliced in small slices of squared shape. Icelanders put on them butter and other various dishes. This bread is long- life. Once, this bread was baked in a hot ground. It was buried in there for more than 48 hours and it was in fact more boiled than baked. Nowadys, it’s baked in the oven at very low temperature.

Skyr is dairy product simillar to yogurt or curd cheese. It’s in fact soft cheese which has in the same time sweetish taste. It‘s sweetened with sugar or fruit, mainly with berries. It’s very commonly eaten with sandwiches.

Icelanders love ice cream. They eat it everywhere and at anytime. Ice cream is available in streets or video stores and twisted ice cream is mixed with anything- all kinds of chocolate, sweets, liquorice (which is very favourite among Icelanders), fruit or with various juices and icings."

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