Bread and Soup

Several restaurants we visited in Iceland offered bread and soup. They had a big kettle of soup that you served yourself from, and loaves of bread beside it that you sliced your own slabs of bread from [1].

And it was cheap [2], appealing to the backpacking crowd.

Since it was a cold and rainy day here [3] I made my own version. Potato and leek soup and rye bread, made with rye flour from rye we grew.

Delicious!

1.You sliced your slabs holding the bread with your bare hands, no latex gloves. And if you wanted another bowl of soup you used the same bowl. Eeek! That must be why there are so few people in Iceland, they’ve all died from food poisoning. [4]

2. Don’t believe it when anyone tells you how cheap it is to visit Iceland. That bowl of soup will cost you many króna, I tell you what.

3. But still about 30 degrees warmer than Iceland.

4. That’s sarcasm. It’s so hard to tell.