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I've had this. I don't normally eat anything resembling seafood, but I figured I had to give this a whirl while in Iceland. It was terrible, but in a "hey, you've got to try this" sort of way. They usually serve it with a shot of Icelandic scnapps, the name translates out to "Black Death". This liqour will put hair on your chest.
I went to a restaurant there that served a "Viking Feast" and the shark was one of the appetizers they brought out. At first I was a little irked that they only brought out four small cubes of shark for the two of us, but then I thought about how much rotten shark I actually wanted to eat and it was good enough.
The lamb is amazing. Best lamb in the world there. Actually I made Icelandic stew the other day, froze some of it and just had some. Lamb, leeks, rutabagas, potatoes, rice, onions, carrots and cabbage.
Iceland rules. Words can't describe the scenery.
Too cool. If I go to Iceland, that's one of the first things I'm trying is the shark and schnapps combo meal.
I'm studying abroad there this summer so I'm pretty psyched about it. But I'm more interested in what's BELOW the ground than what's above (the program is on sustainable development/alternative energies technology... so a big focus on geothermal energy). I'm not a big one for partying and spas, but the nature more than makes up for that!
So is anybody going to offer some intel on the females there? I always had the feeling there was maybe a national ordinance against foreigners doing it with anybody's dottir ... gene pool seems amazingly "pristine," at least from what little I've been able to figure without having been there.
No! Don't eat the sharks! Poor, poor sharks. I'm a meat-eater, hardly your stereotypical bleeding-heart vegan, but the way sharks are harvested is horrible. For shark-fin soup, the sharks aren't even slaughtered first, just dragged aboard the ship, have their fins sliced off, and then dumped overboard to bleed to death. A lot of species have become threatened, and I know a lot of people hate or fear sharks, but they're part of the ecosystem. Eat some farm-raised fish or something, leave the poor sharks in the ocean.
No! Don't eat the sharks! Poor, poor sharks. I'm a meat-eater, hardly your stereotypical bleeding-heart vegan, but the way sharks are harvested is horrible. For shark-fin soup, the sharks aren't even slaughtered first, just dragged aboard the ship, have their fins sliced off, and then dumped overboard to bleed to death. A lot of species have become threatened, and I know a lot of people hate or fear sharks, but they're part of the ecosystem. Eat some farm-raised fish or something, leave the poor sharks in the ocean.
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If I go to Iceland, that's one of the first things I'm trying is the shark and schnapps combo meal. 
