EATING WEIRD ICELANDIC FOOD | Fermented Shark, Sheep's Head, Dried Fish

One, two.

I can't lean.

No, Kira, you're psyching me out.

I'm so scared.

I'm, like, shaking.

So we have now been in Iceland for six days, and we have learned about several traditional Icelandic foods that we need to try before we leave Iceland.

I'll start off with the rugebrod. This apparently is bread that has been cooked inside of volcanic rock. Feels like a brick.

Skeer.

Grant protein krut.

500 grams.

This is. I honestly don't know what it is.

Is this yogurt? I think it's supposed to be kind of like Greek yogurt, but Greek yogurt Sour cream.

Ish sour.

It's very popular here. At one point, they used it during a protest and like a government building, and it stuck to it.

I'm not bummed about this one.

That's the one you're most excited about.

We're being for some of this. Megan gear are gonna be the aunt and uncle to our children someday, and so we're being team players.

So for those of you who have never watched one of our videos before, we are full time travelers and occasionally make ourselves eat weird stuff. And this is my sister and her husband who have joined us for the trip, so. So they've been drugging, and this is our worst nightmare. Okay. Number three.

Number four. Number four.

Number three. This is dried fish chips. I think it's kind of like fish. Beef jerky. Yeah.

Is that what it's called?

It's called harde fishker. Hard Fischer Cronfet. From the cronan.

From the cronan. I feel like that was spot on. Number four is lambas vid. So din. Which is a lamb.

A sheepshead.

A sheep head. It's called lamba svid. So I think it's a lamb head.

That could be true. It's just hat, though.

Eyes, nose, teeth, ears, and all. The head of a sheep.

It's the size of a sheep's face.

There are lots of sheep in ice.

Sheep's face.

Oh, it's only plenty to go around.

Comes pre cooked at the grocery store.

Your mom is gonna be so sa.

So Sashi's missing us.

Okay. No, it's Danny's face.

There is one more odd. Oddity number five, but this one was not available at the grocery store. We had to go to a different store.

This is stunk up the car. Fermented shark. We bought this yesterday, and it's been sitting out on the porch because it stunk up the entire apartment.

Everyone's told us not to smell it before we eat it. But it's impossible.

It's crazy coming out of the plastic wrap. Okay. And so we have decided to turn this into a game. Each one of these are numbered, and we are going to roll a die to see which one we have to eat next. But there's an odd number, so if you roll six. There is no six. You get to skip whatever the next one is.

And we all have a Coke to wash it down with. And most importantly, just in case, a puke bucket.

Who wants to start out rolling? Okay.

Okay.

Two.

Oh.

All right. Starting easy. Good yogurt.

I was really hoping that this was gonna be somewhere in the middle.

Am I doing this, or is Kara doing this?

We're all doing it.

We're all doing it.

We're all gonna do it. We're all gonna do it.

Don't try it.

What does it smell like?

Everybody grab a. I don't wanna give it away.

Everybody grab a spoonful.

Oh, that's a lot.

That's it.

Gotta have a tag.

I like that you're just going for it.

This is a good indication.

It smells good. It smells like Greek yogurt.

Okay, fine.

Cheers.

Straight sour cream.

Why?

It does smell like sour cream.

Two, three.

That's really.

That's really good. It's meat thick. I would eat that on a regular basis.

Dairy, really?

Yeah.

No wonder that stuck to the building.

It's somewhere between.

Oh, sticky.

It tastes like Greek yogurt.

I think all this is just in my head.

It has a tad bit more of a. Like a.

You've got some skewers.

Sour.

Oh, sorry for that.

Tastes like sour milk.

Okay, number one.

Sour milk.

Not so bad. Three.

That.

Number three is the fish. Dried fish. Chips, just missing. Oh. Oh, that is fishy. Smell that.

Oh, I can smell it.

Oh, it smells like.

Rotten fish.

Oh, gosh.

It kind of smells like fish. Smells like something washed up on the lakeshore. It's not like a flaky fish.

No, no.

You don't have to eat the whole thing. Oh, good one, Kara.

I don't like fish.

It's like a filet.

I don't even like fish.

You don't like any fish? I really feel like I'm eating the fish food I used to give my fish. It's not even fish. It's fish food.

Fish food. Beef jerky.

Which part am I gonna put in my mouth?

Two, three.

Oh.

This is even the worst one.

My eyes are watering. I hate it. I don't like it at all.

I can't smell it. I don't like it.

Kara, put it back in your mouth.

Are you eating? It is.

Reminds me of food.

Do it. I can't swallow it. Oh, Coke. I'm crying.

Did you swallow it?

Oh, God.

You have to.

I don't want to.

If you can't swallow it, you automatically can't skip.

Your skip gets.

Oh, it's a really good rule.

You skip a skip.

All right. It can't go down.

I don't know if the camera can see, but I'm crying. And this is only number three.

Oh, I figured out what it reminds me of.

Fish fin.

Seaweed.

No, it's delicious.

Have you ever tried, like, the dried seaweed, like, before you wrap the sushi? Yeah, that's what it tastes like.

You ever just had, like, dried fish? Because that's what it tastes like to me.

Oh. It's like, not even salty like. I thought maybe it would be good and salty, but it's.

No.

That was about $10.

All right, Kayla, gonna leave it for the next people.

I'm getting less excited as we go.

Yeah, they're options.

Oh, live. Oh, no, It's a shark.

Oh, no.

I think I'm gonna either pass out before this happens.

This is the fermented shark.

This is the one.

All right. Open it up.

Yeah.

Get it ready.

We all can't use at the same time.

I brought an extra bag. This is Karen asked to share, and now I'm here.

Will you hold my hair back?

I can't believe I'm doing this.

Oh, my gosh. It's double. It's double wrapped, and you could still smell it.

I don't know if I'm gonna be able to swallow this one.

We're not supposed to smell it. Don't smell it. Don't do it. Aw, it looks so thick.

Oh, don't touch it with your fingers. That's what I've heard. I got those for everybody. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I thought it was gonna smell like rotten fish. It smells like ammonia.

I'm having an out of body experience because I watched you eat scorpions and arachnids and other things.

Oh, my gosh. You're cute. It legitimately said I need a fork. I don't know that I can put that in my mouth. It smells like a. It smells like a cleaning chemical.

Yeah.

Y' all said it smells.

Burns my nose.

It does. It starts smelling it.

Okay, pause.

I'm really nervous about this.

I'll make sure the camera.

Now you are.

If you crunched up chalk.

Chalk I would gladly eat. Crunch up chalk.

No, no, no.

Imagine.

Imagine the stuff you sprinkle on throw up. That's what it is. Oh, gosh, Caleb, I think that has ammonia in.

Probably does. No, stop smelling it.

I really smell it.

It smells like Windex.

All right. Are we in here?

Are you putting the whole thing in your mouth?

Yeah.

Okay, what if I spit it out?

That's okay. That's okay.

Then you don't get to skip.

You don't get to spit it out. Well, you just roll it out. Oh, this throw bag has holes in it. Okay. One, two, three.

Oh, it's not as bad as you think.

No.

Oh.

It'S getting there.

It's burning. It's burning.

I swallowed it.

The last person. Oh, it's burning.

Don't let it get there.

It's burning. The laugh.

Personally, drink it. I don't think it tastes as bad as the dried fish. It did, though.

It did. It did. If you let it sit in there too long.

Yeah, you just gotta do it quick.

I don't think it's.

I chewed it too long. It did my nose. It was better than the.

It smelled way, way worse.

It was better than the dried fish, though.

I agree.

The dry fish was. Well, I thought it was gonna be good.

I have this, like, weird sensation on the back of my tongue right now.

But besides that, inside my nose, it.

Tasted better than the fish. Okay. I think we made it through the worst one.

I am not sure of that. I'm not either.

Okay.

I've never enjoyed coke so much.

Or you did it.

Oh, no.

At least the bread is like a good palate cleanser.

Yeah. When you wash it down at the end.

What are we gonna do about that?

I think we should learn how to eat this.

Should we name it first? No.

I just feel like things with eyes normally have names. Should we cook it in the oven or crepes?

Is this the ear?

Oh, don't smush it.

I think it. Maybe it's the horn hole.

No, that's the horn hole.

So he was a boy.

Oh, it's fleshy.

Touch it.

I've already touched it.

Touch it more. Now to eat. She said to remove fur boiled with the brain. Removed?

Oh, no, no brain.

Sometimes cured in lactic acid. Great.

Should we boil this?

I think it's precoached.

We can't know that.

Many Icelanders consider the eye to be the best part of the head.

And because Nate is spearheading this entire thing, we'll let him eat it.

It's an honor to let you do that, Nate.

Thank you.

The cheek, where most of the meat is found, is tender and rather tasty.

That sounds good.

Oh, look, there's a smile.

Here it comes. No, no. Oh, it's slimy. Oh.

Oh, my.

I touched the juices.

Where's the bark bag?

It smells worse than I thought it was going to.

It just smells wet.

Smells like singed hair.

I don't even smelled it.

He didn't even say words.

How do we. Oh, I think my nose is sweating.

Oh, I got juice on me already. What do we eat? Do you eat the skin? Can we try the cheekbone and go from there? I feel wrong about it.

Oh, my God.

I feel wrong.

Oh, it's soft. That looks not bad at all.

Traditionally, you'd eat the whole thing because it's cold outside.

You can take that off. My bite has black stuff on it.

Sorry.

I. I really don't like it. Smells like a rodent.

Sheep's head. And 1, 2, 3.

Sheep's cheek.

Not bad.

No, but it's weird, though.

I mean, it's weird that it's looking at me.

I'm thinking about it. That's weird.

It kind of tastes like red beak. Kind of tastes like a barn. I don't like it like a barn. That's still slimy.

Not bad. I see how people can eat. I don't. Let's turn it over.

Well, we have to do. We can't forget the honorary part of the sheep. The eye socket.

Okay, new game, who has to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. New game, who has to eat the eye socket?

We are just deciding who was doing that. I can't wait.

Do we really think that's what that is?

That's a good question. We don't know what that is.

Oh.

That is an eyeball. Oh. Oh, no.

I think we're rolling to see who has to eat it.

No.

When else are you gonna be able to say?

We've all agreed that if you ate a sheep eye, then you can see.

Exactly, bro. You seem to like the idea of it so much.

When else can you eat a nibble of a night?

But it needs to be competitive.

This is your one and only.

It does not.

1, 2, 3, 4, roll.

Damn.

He called himself Galore.

Speaks.

As feet would have it. Do it. Do it. That is an eyeball of a sheep going in Nate's mouth.

You'll have to swallow it.

Yes.

That doesn't seem right.

You have to try.

I'm scared it's gonna crunch.

I'm scared it's gonna pop.

That was gonna be a gusher.

He rolled a two.

I wouldn't know if anybody else would have done it if I would have rolled it.

No, definitely not.

I will never know.

Oh, yeah, I saw my song.

It's in his mouth.

Okay. It didn't pop in reality.

Did you swallow it?

Not yet. It's kind of like fat. Like, it's like a really soft fat.

There's more if you want it.

I'm gonna try to swallow it.

You're doing great.

It didn't taste that bad. You're better than us. This is super weird. Let's eat the bread.

She wanted to.

Let's eat the bread.

Oh, it's on the bread.

This is gonna surprise us to be the worst.

I don't want to roll a six and get to skip out on this one. This one smells good. Hopefully this will be good. I just ate an eyeball.

The only one I was excited about.

Steamed bread. One, two, three. Mmm.

Raisin bran fluff.

It's a bran muffin. If you put a little bit of butter on it, warmed up. Mmm. It's like cinnamon.

That's really good. I would eat more of this. And that's like, breakfast every morning.

Probably feeling pretty healthy. There you have it, folks. We are true Icelanders.

I've heard that the shark in the sheepshead is not eaten on a regular basis, But I have heard that the dried fish is. That I don't understand because that one tasted the worst.

I. I think my expectations were too high for the dried fish. And so when I put it what.

I don't want anymore, I'm good.

Is there a penalty for if you roll off the.

You have to eat everything. Jumanji.

You have to eat everything at the same time.

How about sniffs Is the sandwich of death. You put everything.

I love that.

No, I think I have to nervous pee. I do, too.

I think I have some nervous poop. Sorry, Nate. Sorry.

Camera. Don't put that in there. Okay. Second bark back just in case.

I don't want to puke.

I don't either. All right.

But I feel like it might be better if this doesn't stay in my body.

Should we video each roll, or is that down?

You tell us. Comment below.

What does it go?

I've got stuff in my teeth.

It's probably some type of bitch.