Eating TRADITIONAL ICELANDIC food 

literally his favourite food 😂🙌🏻

Similar when I lived in Poland, some interesting textures and tastes 🤔😅

It does it really does

well then he should do sheep head's pizza

I think it's the equivalent of what we call head cheese out in the rest of the world's foodie land. Lots of people like it. It's not my favorite but I can eat it.

@@jenniferdruidhill7157 With Pineapple.

@@BlackMetalViking lol

No that's China 😂

Any relation to Colonel Troutmann?

@@IndianaJones664 False my dear, edible means that you can eat it and not die, eatable means you can enjoy eating it.

I am from Iceland and that’s very true

I think you mean Rambo . . . .

That's cool. Do you guys eat the head too? I'm ethinically from North Africa and people from the region my parents are from at Mediterranean eat the head and testicles too lmao

@@tamim9266 yes we do. We eat everything from the blood, intestines, liver etc

@@bryanjames7528 Yes, same. The only thing people don't eat is the skin and the blood.

woohoo! another Native! I'm from the Nahua Tribe of El Salvador, we have sheep and eat almost everything ( including bonemarrow and such) we use the wool for textiles and the sinew,skin & bones for instruments, tools etc :)) there's lots of ways to cook an Uja/uwija (goat/sheep)

@@tamim9266 we use blood to make blood sausage

It wasn't bad at all

At 3:28, he's got like a Go-lol face, with that Look-into-my-eyes-and-sink -lol

definitely! haah

Hopefully none of them ever had to resort to cannibalism, but yeah all of these strange foods demonstrate the lengths the original Icelandic settlers had to go to in order to find sustenance and nutrition to eat. In order to sustain them through the long cold Icelandic winter months. Trust me, they weren't eating lamb eyeballs and ram testicles because they thought were a delicious delicacy or something. It was do or die, eat or die, survive or die.

@@LowerTheBoom found evidence of cannibalism in the American colonies before they were taught how to farm the new foods in America. Things get grim when you're desperate.

Yeah we learn about it in school also I’m Icelandic

Vikings

Same, I’m from Central Asia😂

@@patzouvalis That's pretty ignorant but ok. Someone had a good comment about this and sadly I couldn't copy the text but Icelandic and other Northern people didn't come up with stuff like that because they're a delicacy but because they had to use every part of the animals they had to survive. It's been at least way easier in Mediterranean countries because of simple things such as climate. Now that I googled Mediterranean (at least Greek and at least some) people also eat sheep head and tongue around Easter, so who's mocking who? It is probably around as common to eat foods like that in Iceland nowadays. It's not like any country only has history with gourmet dishes, I am pretty confident that all cultures have some weird ass foods.

@@patzouvalis I'm Armenian and there are some strange (to non-Armenians) foods in our cuisine. I remember my grandmother grinding up gristle into kufta (meatballs). My Mexican boyfriend refused to eat it after seeing her do that. They were so delicious but I guess to some gristle is gross.

@@patzouvalis And come on. You know some people think we are weird for eating stuffed grape leaves.

@@patzouvalis quite unfair to compare food from hot countries like Southern Europe to food from cold countries like Northern Europe.

Which foods? Bloedworst and balkebrij?

@@ninadis8168 couldn’t tell you what they are. My dads Dutch but sadly never taught me any really. I just know that some are pretty whack and kinda gross. Some are alright.

Could also be "zult", and is not an entirly strange thing to eat in many parts of the world (see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese ), also "stokvis" (dried fish) is something that used to be common in the Netherlands, but also in other countries near water (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish ).

@@002345709 Dried fish is super common in Russia and all around East Asia. It goes great with beer too.

The look you gave your dad at 8:32 had me rolling. Very brave for trying. My family is from Norway and I've suffered through lutefisk. Just thinking about that smell and texture makes my stomach turn. 🤢

Ahhh I love this. I’m Mohawk and we probably ate most of the deer traditionally (I’ve heard of beaver tail and turtle stews too!) but now we mainly just have salt pork. Lol. Definitely not tradish.

@@nicolekatsitsiyo iv had deer also. Mostly get elk from one of our friends. Have some elkrids in the freezer, may have to make that tonight. FYI. My High School has the Mohawk as our logo. To my understanding is that there are three different tribes that go there and it would not be right to single out one tribes over the other. So they choose an outside tribe.

@@dhuskie4815 elk is yummy, I like the traditional options. Otherwise, I'd rather eat plants. Every reservation should grow more permaculture style like the three sisters to be more sustainable, I really hope that is the future for all natives

@@nicolekatsitsiyo Every part? In china, I have seen bull and snake p*nis being served, and I have heard of cow uterus being eaten. Do you also eat the reproductive organs of deer?

That is interesting

Hi 🥰

No need to use the Lord’s name in vain.

@@Storytime2023x I'm an atheist and I use language however I see fit. I firmly believe gods don't exist and so our use of language need take no account of an unnecessary fear of them. But please consider: why chastise a random stranger online for using language in a way you don't like? What's the point? You seem to assume you are doing a good thing by berating me for not conforming to your own set of rules? Mine are different. The world is bigger than you imagine. Stop trying to impose your unwelcome religious rules on others and back off.

@@Storytime2023x Ok, so Jesus Christ walks into a hotel lobby, he goes up to the desk clerk, hands him three nails and then Jesus ask "Can you put me up for the night?" Oh I have always found that to be a knee slapper.

@@russetmantle1 Take no shit, good on you.

@@BlackMetalViking : Mock if you want, but you will remember that joke when you are in Hell. It’s not like you’re hurting me with that. You’re hurting yourself.

Philippines, right?

Oh I actually enjoyed the balut, I ended up having quite a bit while in the Philippines

And this is how I know this is a Filipino comment 😂😩

idk how other cultures prepare blood but pig's blood soup which my family (we're Chinese) eats just has the blood look like brown tofu. i feel like it's not scary unless you tell someone what it is 😅 but people seem really scared of the idea for some reason. yet vampires are supposed to be sexy lol

I'm American. If I go to Scotland I'd like to try some real haggis.

I don’t think Iceland has anything on Scottish foods.

@@IronmanV5 Haggis is basically just good sausage.

@@IronmanV5 I’ve had haggis. It’s okay. Not good. Not bad. Palatable, I suppose. It’s overrated

Hello Hrafna. I am Paul, and right around your dad's age. My Greek friend Marinos brought a sheep's head to work for our annual Christmas feast. I was not brave enough to try it, but the jaw muscles looked alright. I'll settle for standard food, pasta, etc.😁

Cow's tongue is delicious!

i am from iceland and we have something that is called in iceladic "Grafin nautatunga" or in english barred cow tongue. it is put in all kind of spice. i have only got those once ore twise on meals with my workplace few days before cristmass but I find it delicus. But I agree with Hrafna that those food she tried in this video is not good.

@@andriflosason9185 we boil the tongue on a water and vinegar mixture for several hours, to make it tender, then laid it on oil with parsley and garlic for a week at least. We call it "lengua a la vinagreta".

@@Sasha-w2o that sounds good.

In some historically poor Italian regions we do this too. It's all about necessity to survive I guess

Hi 🥰

You are the first person from Iceland I have met. I am from Ireland 🇮🇪 hello 🇮🇸

Jellied LAMB Made of PIG and then cheese

It's made the same way and looks just like it.

hahahaha that was funny!

I suspect hers was pickled or allowed to ferment to acquire the sourness. I like your version better. lol

Why don’t you eat a human’s head then? 🤮 Disgusting and immoral to eat someones head.

@@mnbvcxkll Sure...Our ancestors survived all until now by eating and using all parts of their livestock. Now many of us *dont have to* anymore. And lets hope it never get to the point of famine, and the like, so that people desperately resorts to eating each other - it has happened sadly, fex in Ukraine under the USSR famine crisis in the 1920's.

just for curiosity , do you find pig head tastier than sheep ? i have never had pig in my entire life

@@ashiqrh317 I don't eat the head, but I prefer pig meat. In our country, it's not common to eat sheep. We usually cook chicken or pig meat.

In Lithuania we also have one disgusting food (but I think it's borrowed from Russia) called 'šaltiena'. You have to boil some part of pig to get gelatin solution then mince off meat of that body part, put meat into gelatin and cool down to make it stiff. Some people use pig's head, some - legs, but since I don't like neither method and I can't even look at it, it makes me sick.

In England this is called "brawn", and in Canada and USA it's called "head cheese".

In the American South (South Eastern states) it is called souse. In Louisiana it is called hog's head cheese and is generally made with more spices, flavor, and heat. I ate it for years and my grandpa (Opa) would tell me how it was made of a whole pigs head boiled in seasonings till the meat melted off the bone, the eyes and brains liquified, and the gelatin from the brain formed the binder to hold all the bits together in the form of hog's head cheese. He used to tell all kinds of tall tales of his square wheel bike and being swallowed whole by a fish and escaping so I knew it was just a gag... Until I asked him when I was older and got the same response! Doesn't matter. I love the stuff too much now to be grossed out by it!

I agree but my reason for not visiting before covid is over is that i dont want to get tested and wear a mask because the science about covid viruses and bacteria is wrong and being forced to do things like masks and using a bad test is also wrong

@@bjrnjohanhumblen8620 wearing a mask is proven, even with a common cold to be efficient in reducing the risks of spreading airborne diseases. That's why even during surgery surgeons wear masks. It is however true that there are people with breathing difficulties. Therefore they cannot handle breathing through the masks itself. Now these people would have a medically cleared, proven and signed by a GP doctor. However if one has such breathing problems, and bearing in mind the times we live in that there is delivered foods and essentials, then they that go out is highly unrecommended. Pushing the facts to one side, let's just look at it this way. It's the law and Corona has taken everyone, all the way up to the government and royal people, by a storm. Everyone is concerned due to the spread and also the mental stress it placed on society. Everyone, including common people, rich, poor, old and young wants life normal again. The best way is for everyone to cooperate, call it sheepish if you must. I say when the sheep follow those sheep don't get left to the foxes. Likewise if we the people follow guidelines the government says, remain in hope that a vaccine will come, trust in the system, which researchers tirelessly have concluded their decisions; Then the spread will stop, finally and more importantly the vaccine production can increase, rather than people not cooperating, going out, catching Corona, spreading it, taking up medical time and delaying the finances needed for vaccination development. People forget sometimes that every individual takes up society and it is important every individual does their part. Stay safe, know your space and for the love of life protect your face. These times will get better faster then... I've typed a lot here because I care and I work closely with development projects. They're working day and night and the NHS is truly overwhelmed, because people just go out uncovered. Stay hopeful and healthy yes!!!!👍😅

I think that I'd rather eat a small bite of Hákarl immediately chased with a shot of strong liquor than eat an eyeball. I know that eyeballs/sheep's heads are eaten in other countries too and ppl really enjoy it. Think I'd respectfully pass if offered though.

Yep, I was doing ok until the eyeball. Then I was dry heaving for her 🤢