Meats in Iceland
Jun. 24th, 2018 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroSo, Jethrien already did a really complete, detailed report of our trip to Iceland. The only thing I really have to add is regarding meats, because during that trip, I ate a bunch of animals I hadn’t before.
• They love lamb; smoked lamb is a common cold cut, lamb is the base of the meat soup, lamb is in the hot dogs. One tour guide noted there are about 500,000 sheep in Iceland, or about a million during lambing season.
• The other really common cold cut was ham, which they have a dozen varieties of. I have to wonder if that’s an imported love, because for all the sheep and cows and horses we saw, I didn’t see a single pig.
• Horse tastes a lot like beef, though it’s a very tough meat. Neither of these things is surprising.
• Langoustine are the tiny lobsters which taste, unsurprisingly, like sweet and tender lobster. I had them deep friend, roasted with garlic butter, and in soup, and they were consistently delicious.
• Minke whale (which is not endangered, for the record) tastes like one of the gamier red meats, though with a slight fishiness.
• Puffin reminded me a lot of duck. I specifically had it in a smoked, not-quite-jerky form so it was really tender.
• Ling is a cod-like fish, and tastes like it.
• Icelanders LOVE mayonnaise. It’s the meat-condiment and dipping sauce of choice.
• Also, Icelanders apparently like both British-style sandwiches (hard boiled eggs and iceberg lettuce go on everything) and French-style (the single slice of ham and cheese with, of course, mayo). They do a lot more of the seeded rye breads than white breads, and apparently eat a lot of nuts.
We can tell what part of this trip was most important to me, eh?
• They love lamb; smoked lamb is a common cold cut, lamb is the base of the meat soup, lamb is in the hot dogs. One tour guide noted there are about 500,000 sheep in Iceland, or about a million during lambing season.
• The other really common cold cut was ham, which they have a dozen varieties of. I have to wonder if that’s an imported love, because for all the sheep and cows and horses we saw, I didn’t see a single pig.
• Horse tastes a lot like beef, though it’s a very tough meat. Neither of these things is surprising.
• Langoustine are the tiny lobsters which taste, unsurprisingly, like sweet and tender lobster. I had them deep friend, roasted with garlic butter, and in soup, and they were consistently delicious.
• Minke whale (which is not endangered, for the record) tastes like one of the gamier red meats, though with a slight fishiness.
• Puffin reminded me a lot of duck. I specifically had it in a smoked, not-quite-jerky form so it was really tender.
• Ling is a cod-like fish, and tastes like it.
• Icelanders LOVE mayonnaise. It’s the meat-condiment and dipping sauce of choice.
• Also, Icelanders apparently like both British-style sandwiches (hard boiled eggs and iceberg lettuce go on everything) and French-style (the single slice of ham and cheese with, of course, mayo). They do a lot more of the seeded rye breads than white breads, and apparently eat a lot of nuts.
We can tell what part of this trip was most important to me, eh?
