Singed sheep heads for dinner

Here you can read more about thorri feast food:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorramatur

Svið - Singed sheep heads. Singed sheep head should first be thoroughly rinsed and then boiled in well-salted water for 1½ to 2 hours. Svið can be eaten hot or cold, with either plain boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes or swede turnips. A popular dish in Iceland, svið are an ideal item for a packed lunch. Also available ready-cooked, tinned or pressed and gelled (sviðasulta).
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in old days, when kids didnt have hundreds of toys lol.. then they played with sheep bones, shells, rocks, etc.. its not that long ago though, i mean, it was toys for my father... but I also played with those jawbones.. it was the most fun thing about when svid was for dinner, we cleaned the jaw bones and used them as toys.. i think they used to be horses in pretend play when dad played with them, but i think they were guns and something else when I and my brother played with them,, maybe boats too.. lol..

I used to only eat the tongue.. the other is not food to me.. but now i dont even like the tongue.. and i have stopped playing with the jaw bones lol...

But mom and dad love svid and they eat much more than only the tounge..

my aunt even eats the EYE LOL..

i was so curious when i was little,, why would people eat the eyes??? so i tried it once..
i think i felt like puking lol...

so, i'm not exactly a fan of eating svid, but i am interested in history for some part... i mean, this is kinda weird, and i like that lol...

i mean, the national foods of iceland is almost qualified to be on Fear Factor LMAO

but there is also food that is not scary or disgusting looking at all... so its not all bad :)

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• meal

[Linnas79]

At least they removed the eyes. I don't like my food staring back at me.

[nicegirlfromiceland]

@Linnas79 No they arent removed, they are in there, just not very visible. People actually EAT the eyes.

[vasilij69]

im norwegian and this is, well not normal but it's not unnormal either to eat in norway. Why the f*** would someone eat a sheep head?! WHY!"?#

[nicegirlfromiceland]

@vasilij69 I wonder if theres a difference between icelandic and norwegian sheep in taste, if its not the same species? I have family in Norway and they say the Icelandic lamb and sheep is much better, for their taste at least.

Do you know how history shows us why people started eating this? I dont eat it often at all but the cheeks and tongue isnt always bad tasting, there isnt much meat on it but i dont eat the fat and definitely NOT the eyes like some people love. Yes, love and drool for it

[pilotbutterfly]

traditional norwegian food

[nicegirlfromiceland]

@pilotbutterfly ok cool :) but are you saying that it isnt traditional icelandic then? Cause you know it was the kind of food here probably over a 1000 years ago, and for a good reason. :) But yea, I think its traditional wherever the vikings went, haggis is also scottish as well as icelandic. (slátur /lifrarpylsa/blóðmör in icelandic)

[kasperwatanabe]

this seems pretty gross but atleast they eat it and dont waste it. almost all of them get thrown away after being killed for lamb or mutton

[TheFemaleIcelander]

@nicegirlfromiceland my dad does, and he loves it.

[olofliljaaa]

this is real food!!

[mykiko2665]

@eu000000000 in tunisia we eat cow brains,but cooked

[ateffii]

thank god im not from iceland

[nicegirlfromiceland]

@eu000000000 I would like to see some information about this because lots of people I know have had this for years and I never heard of this before. If people were getting sick eating this here then we wouldn't sell it, we even don't import foods from other countries if it's got too much artificial color or something in it. It must depend on how it's prepared, it's singed and no brain whatsoever. I wonder if there's a difference between species of sheep.

[aireicodedtwo]

I'd rather kiss it.

[FPSLink55]

LMAO, I live in Canada and I would never wanna eat meat from heads. xP

[Ingachan11]

@sdsp9 We always eat this when we visit my grandparents. I tried the tounge, but, I can't eat something that stares at me. And guess what? Icelanders also eat testicles.