David K. Edwards
Tourist Delight
© David K. Edwards. A plate from the restaurant Loki of supposedly representative Icelandic dishes. These include mackerel, trout, dried haddock, and lamb on rye bread. In the center, with Icelandic flag and toothpicks, lurks the dreaded hákarl. This delicacy, essentially rotted shark, is widely considered one of the nastiest foods known to man. Anthony Bourdain described hákarl as “the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing.” According to rumor, the chef Gordon Ramsay vomited after eating a small cube of it. Indeed, it is not good: rubbery and putrid and tasting strongly of urine and salt and fishy decomposition. I did not vomit, but I did not ask for seconds. If you wish, you can buy it in the supermarket. Go for it. But if I were you I'd stick to the equisite Icelandic hot-dogs. No kidding. [P.S. Don't you hate people who seem to need to photograph their food before they eat it?]
Tourist Delight
© David K. Edwards. A plate from the restaurant Loki of supposedly representative Icelandic dishes. These include mackerel, trout, dried haddock, and lamb on rye bread. In the center, with Icelandic flag and toothpicks, lurks the dreaded hákarl. This delicacy, essentially rotted shark, is widely considered one of the nastiest foods known to man. Anthony Bourdain described hákarl as “the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing.” According to rumor, the chef Gordon Ramsay vomited after eating a small cube of it. Indeed, it is not good: rubbery and putrid and tasting strongly of urine and salt and fishy decomposition. I did not vomit, but I did not ask for seconds. If you wish, you can buy it in the supermarket. Go for it. But if I were you I'd stick to the equisite Icelandic hot-dogs. No kidding. [P.S. Don't you hate people who seem to need to photograph their food before they eat it?]