Home cooking and farm products from Iceland will amaze any tourist and guest of the country.

Historical dishes have strange names, their appearance frightens, the smell disgusts. But if you have come to such a distance, you need to overcome your fear and try the local cuisine. You can be sure that you won’t taste this food anywhere else.

In Iceland they will offer you to try a dish with a strange name – blood and fat. It is not possible to read it in Icelandic at all! We can describe this creation like this: it looks like a kind of pudding, consisting of a mixture, which includes fat nutria, the blood of a young lamb, some flour and oats. First they all these ingredients, then they roast the pudding and later and serve it on the table.

Also in Iceland people like eating the most common dried fish, but this fish differs from what we are accustomed to. The thing is that it dried without salt. For this reason, it has a special taste, unusual for us.

The following homemade dish shocks the conscience of an unprepared tourist. This is the so-called dish swif. It consists of the head of a sheep, chopped into two parts. It is smoked and cooked. According to the tourists, it is unpleasant to eat this dish, some state that it is even impossible: the eyes of food do not let bite it quietly! But the experts say that everyone will like the taste. In addition, it is known that in Iceland sheep are grown in huge quantities, the quality of meat and farm products is very high, so the dishes from these products are delicious.

Another amazing food comes from Iceland. In literal translation, the name of the dish is "pickled ram eggs". We would like to note that this is not a figurative name, but rather a reflective content of the dish. The vast majority of Europeans who have tried this masterpiece say that it is tasteless! But we believe that if you have come to Iceland, you should overcome fear and be like an Icelander!

And now we’ll tell you the most interesting fact. In a literal translation, the dish is called a "fermented shark". And if you describe the food literally, then this is a normal rotten shark, which in its fresh form is dangerous because of its poison. Enterprising Icelanders dig it in the ground for several weeks. Then they eat it and aren’t afraid to die. The thing is that in the ground It decomposes and the poison loses its activity. After this it can be eaten without further processing. Experts say that the shark should be washed down with local vodka, which is prepared from potatoes. Or vice versa, you should eat a shark when you are drinking vodka. This vodka has a curious name "black death". Thanks to this drink, it will be easier to try the shark. Enjoy your meal!