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Hope You Like Salted Meat And Split Bean Soup
Today is the second of Iceland’s Holy Trinity Of Gluttonous Holidays leading up to Lent, Sprengidagur. [su_pullquote]Easter is drawing closer and now we have Icelandic Easter Eggs back in stock![/su_pullquote] You really don’t have to do anything special on this day apart…
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Sprengidagur: As If We Needed Another Excuse To Stuff Our Faces
Today is a special day in Iceland, known as Sprengidagur. Now before you ask Google Translate to mangle that word into something vaguely resembling English, we’ll save you the bother by telling you that the phrase “explosion day” will result. And if…
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Sprengidagur Is Here! Let’s Have Some Salted Meat And Split Bean Soup
Today is Sprengidagur, which literally translates to “Bursting Day”. The idea here is you’re supposed to eat a whole lot of food in preparation for Lent. Traditionally, that means eating a lot of salted meat and split bean soup. Múlakaffi is one…
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The Big Misunderstanding Behind Sprengidagur
We hope you still have space in your belly after yesterday’s cream puffs, because today Icelanders celebrate Sprengidagur, which literally means “bursting day.” Or so you’ve been told, right? In truth, this whole translation was either a big misunderstanding or, more likely,…
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Salted Meat And Beans: Welcome To Bursting Day
Today, we eat copious amounts of salted meat and yellow peas. Why? Because it’s Nordic Mardi Gras, or Bursting Day. Does the above photo whet your appetite? Then Bursting Day (Sprengidagur) might very well be the holiday for you. Salted lamb meat…
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Bolludagur, Sprengidagur and Öskudagur
Sadly overlooked by most visitors to Iceland, Bolludagur, Sprengidagur and Öskudagur are set up back to back, conveniently enough, on the last two days of February and the first day of March. Taken together, they afford you the opportunity to be a…