My favorite fact about Iceland is that their horses are all members of a labour union.
I really want this to be true because it’s amazing. Do you have a source by chance?
They might be talking about FIEF.
I can see why no one’s favorite fact about Iceland is that their national dish is shark fermented in its own urea and then hung out to dry for months.
I mean I can see it back when they were Vikings, desperate to survive, but come on, Iceland. Move on from eating the dried pee sharks.
I’m pretty sure they just do it for the tourists now.
I remember when I was there. They were all very excited about a Costco opening up, and I don’t imagine they carry shark pee soup.
Umm actually 🤓🤓🤓 because icelandic is closer to old nordic its a lot different than swedish(and norwegian, danish)
How the fuck did you collect the sharks urea? I see how it gets expensive… Lmao
Sharks don’t really pee. It gets stored it in their body tissue instead. Part of the preperation of shark is essentially pressing it for weeks to bring out the ammonia and let it break down into something that won’t kill you. Doesn’t taste good, but won’t kill you.
Damn I was planning a trip to Iceland this food got into my list but if u tell me it tastes shit I guess I would have to take it out …
Sounds like he has a lucrative consulting career in his future.
My favorite fact about Iceland is that it was a dry country, with beer being banned until 1989. Home brew is limited to 2.5%.
Strong alcohol is only really sold at state ran shops called Vinbudin hat often have weird opening hours.
Its also very expensive, majority of the cost being tax.
Given the number of pissheads flailing about in the streets, I can only assume that the more enterprising fishermen are bringing in a fuckload of bootleg booze.
They could be secret millionaires of course, but I doubt any of the people I saw were rich enough to be that fucked up. They don’t seem to have the local equivalent of three litres of Frosty Jacks for £4.
Most buy their booze exactly that way or from abroad as they do in most of the Nordics.
However the drink driving limit is very low, a quarter of the UK legal limit and they want to lower it further. Not worth the hefty fine for getting caught, I wouldn’t drink the night before driving personally.
Meanwhile in Germany, you were allowed to distill your own schnapps at home but only “in small amounts”. Small amounts meant less than 450 liters per year per person in the household, yes children counted.
Since 2018, you are not allowed to do that anymore tho, but there are distilleries that accept your home-grown fruit and distill schnapps for you.
I wonder why they have so many crime writers
I think there are many writers in general. There are 300,000 people, and 1 in 10 will publish a book in their lifetimes.
Okay, but one guy writing 1000 books would skew that number substantially.
You get 20 doing 10 that’s still a large portion changing the statistics.
Is it actually 1/10 or is just 30000 books from the population.
Seems to be a few writing a lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Icelandic_crime_fiction_writers
That’s ‘1 in 10 Icelanders will write and publish at least one novel at some point in their life’, not ‘one book written for every 10 Icelanders’.
It’s a stat you’ll see floating around the internet, though I haven’t seen the ultimate source.
When I visited (so take it with a grain of salt) a local (who was a friend of a friend and showed us around) said that culturally there is a lot of encouragement to be creative in various forms. Be interested if any Icelandic people would either confirm or deny this.
