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Fimmtudagur, 15. febrúar 2007

Þorrablót

The annual Thorrablot is now next weekend in the area where my parents live and I am going to go - for the first time in probably 6-7 years. Thorrablot is an event when Icelanders meet, dance, drink, sing (most often songs that makes you blush!) and eat food as it was cooked traditionally (when Iceland was under Danish rule, they banned us to use salt (because if Icelanders would have been able to salt and store the fish, they could have exported it and made money and thus become independent!) so instead of salting food, as of way of preserving it, we smoked it, dried it and pickled it (in sour stuff - somewhere described "whey-pickled!)

I personally do not eat or like this stuff like whey-pickled sheep balls or singed sheep head or sheep head paté but there are loads of other goodies on the buffet like gravlax, smoked lamb eaten with flat bread, sweet white sauce and boiled potatoes! Bob hates it though, said it felt like eating tires and did not understand why on earth we would put sugar in the sauce – well I can explain that, sugar was something Icelanders did not have much of in the old age and thus, when they had sugar, they put it in the sauce – but let me ask you right back – why on earth would you put sugar on popcorn and why on earth do you deep-fry mars bars??? Now that’s disgusting!!!

Anyway – where was I? Yes, bad food! My favorite of it all is rotten shark – most people do not agree with me and think it is disgusting – but one can say it takes a while to get used to it and I cannot eat much of it! But it makes my mouth water just thinking about it!I am suppose to be working this weekend but the staff at my current work place are fantastically flexible so instead I work next weekend! Anyway – I hope this here above did not make you lose your appetite.

Bon appetité

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