The food in Iceland was not what I was expecting, it was not too different from the foods in America. The biggest difference was that lamb was one of the most popular meats. It was used in lamb burgers and lamb chops. Another popular dish was fish and chips, the fish was always fresh and caught locally since Iceland is an island. Hotdogs are really popular there too; they had their own little store in most towns that specialized in making hotdogs. My favorite combination was a fried hotdog with garlic and cheese sauce with Doritos on it. For breakfast most mornings we would set out fruit, bacon, sausage, toast, kleinur (a type of donut), and skyr, which is like a thick cheese yogurt. For lunch we would sometimes pack our own, we would make sandwiches out of the meat we had such as salami, ham, lamb, ect. and cheese. We would alternate between eating out and cooking for our dinner meals. When we cooked, it usually consisted of lamb chops and grilled vegetables. I got pizza a lot of the time when we ate out as well as chicken wraps which they seemed to have at a lot of places.

While on long drives we would stop at gas stations to get snacks and/or ice cream. The ice cream was delicious, they would dip it in a hardening sauce and sprinkle whatever topping we liked on it. Our class had the opportunity to try some traditional foods that we wouldn’t eat in the US as well, including shark, whale, and horse. I was not a fan of any of them, but I made sure to at least try it all. Another popular snack was dried fish with butter, our tour guide who was with us for most of the trip always has a bag of it on hand with him to eat whenever he was hungry, and he told us most people in Iceland keep a bag of it in their cars too.