It isn’t staple food you’d see on modern dinner plates: it essentially is only tourist food, or eaten during Þorrablót - a mid-winter celebration of of traditional Icelandic food (which in many cases was starvation food, but we let that slide)
Sharks don’t really pee. It gets stored it in their body tissue instead. Part of the preperation of shark is essentially pressing it for weeks to bring out the ammonia and let it break down into something that won’t kill you. Doesn’t taste good, but won’t kill you.
I can see why no one’s favorite fact about Iceland is that their national dish is shark fermented in its own urea and then hung out to dry for months.
I mean I can see it back when they were Vikings, desperate to survive, but come on, Iceland. Move on from eating the dried pee sharks.
I’m pretty sure they just do it for the tourists now.
I remember when I was there. They were all very excited about a Costco opening up, and I don’t imagine they carry shark pee soup.
Why go to a Costco when you can make your own fermented shark pee?
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Umm actually 🤓🤓🤓 because icelandic is closer to old nordic its a lot different than swedish(and norwegian, danish)
I’m js you could ferment it in pee and eat it
It isn’t staple food you’d see on modern dinner plates: it essentially is only tourist food, or eaten during Þorrablót - a mid-winter celebration of of traditional Icelandic food (which in many cases was starvation food, but we let that slide)
“Those new to it may gag involuntarily at the first attempt to eat…”. Fantastic!
How the fuck did you collect the sharks urea? I see how it gets expensive… Lmao
Sharks don’t really pee. It gets stored it in their body tissue instead. Part of the preperation of shark is essentially pressing it for weeks to bring out the ammonia and let it break down into something that won’t kill you. Doesn’t taste good, but won’t kill you.
Damn I was planning a trip to Iceland this food got into my list but if u tell me it tastes shit I guess I would have to take it out …
It isn’t awful, but it isn’t good either. Get a tub of it just to say you’ve tried it, but Iceland has much better “real” food on offer.
Thanks man I will split it with friends if it doesn’t cost a kidney
They basically sweat it.
Worth pointing out that Greenland sharks are rare, live for a long time, and probably don’t breed quickly.
So get 'em before they run out! /s
It’s among my favorite Iceland facts, but only because of that time James May kept it down.