Posted on 01/25/2022 6:58:20 AM PST by mylife
Icelandic pizzeria nods to pagan tradition by serving sheep's head as special topping On a bed of arugula and carrot slices, an Icelandic pizzeria has laid out an unusual topping for their new, seasonal pizza: a sheep's head boiled in stout beer.
The head itself is laced with a smoked chili barbecue sauce that plays up the animal's flavour — more than when it's traditionally been served for Thorrablot, the midwinter food festival celebrating Iceland's pagan history.
And that's because the sauce includes another juicy ingredient — sheep dung.
"It's really delicious. I mean, it has to be tasted to be able to describe it," Laufey Sif Larusdottir, the owner of Olverk Pizza and Brewery in Hveragerdi told As It Happens host Carol Off.
She said that during Thorrablot, Icelanders traditionally eat sheep's head as well as fermented shark, whale blubber, ram's testicles and blood pudding to honour pagan gods (think Thor) and men.
"It's basically our type of Valentine's Day," Larusdottir said. "We would give these kinds of food to all the husbands and flowers and cake. And then on Women's Day, one month in time, we will get flowers and something else."
We provide gloves with this meal - Laufey Sif Larusdottir, owner of Olverk Pizza and Brewery But this, she says, is the first time that the festive sheep's head is being served on a pizza rather than a platter. The pizzeria owner wants this to be the beginning of a new tradition for young, urban Icelancers who have grown apart from the tradition.
"It's a visceral experience," she said. "A smell, a taste … it stirs a lot of feelings."
Larusdottir's pizza is intended to look like a sheep laying in a field of grass. But it's not so clear how to eat it.
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you have to eat the whole sheep
global warming dontcha know
“One sheep’s head pizza. Hold the crap, please.”
I’ve helped do several whole hog roasts and the best meat is in the head when the eyeballs and brains melt into the jowls. Yummy stuff
Going to take a hard pass and stick to pineapple, kraut, and ham.
Uh..............no..........................
I bet it does.
I’ll try everything mentioned, except for the dung sauce. That’s disgusting. I have eaten hakarl, the fermented shark, and it was pretty good— if you can get past the pungent smell.
“... it’s our type of Valentine’s Day...”
Just me but I prefer a box candy. :)
I’ve had things that made andrew zimmerman wince.
Oooh, I had to look him up. Sounds like an interesting series.
I prefer lamb
Yep. Wish I could do it with a deer’s head, but CWD dontchano. Even had to give up the bone in neck roasts.
My kids used to, now my grandkids, go nuts when I eat the cheeks and eyeballs of fried trout. Hummp!!!! Kids, watchagonnadonowadays.
I do have a recipe for deer hooves I need to try.
Pig cheek is delicious. Whenever I’m at a pig roast I always volunteer to help carve it. The cheek meat is then all mine.
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a place I frequented in tx put the steer skull on top of the barbacoa.
truth in advertising baby!
I know a guy from michigan that complained he found a human tooth in his tamale in tx
I said that was a pigs tooth, you do know how they make them?
That’s where I always went first. The jowls and then the loin
Those parts always went into a separate pan for the cooks
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