I am realizing that there's probably no such thing as Icelandic-style yogurt, and it's a canny marketing ploy by a local dairy that realizes there's a segment of the populace that's looking for something snootier, fancier, more exotic and less peasanty than the really similar Greek-style. But it tastes real nice!

Leaving marketing aside, I cannot recommend the thick yogurt enough. Given that it's nonfat, I try to use it with anything that would normally take cream. Last night we made a flank steak and served it with a sauce of horseradish and yogurt (among some other things) and it was fucking great. Maybe later this week I'll make creamed spinach.

I also got some drink I never heard of before-- it claims to be fizzy, mango-flavored water (because water is healthful!), with a paragraph-long mission statement of healthiness and coolness on the label, but really it just tastes like Orange Crush. I am possibly too status-conscious at the deli.

Wouldn't Icelandic-style yogurt be made with like yak's milk or something? I mean, old-school style Icelandic.

Maybe reindeer milk?

I have emailed the yogurt company and asked if anyone here sells their yogurt.

bon, you crack me up.

also, again last night mac claimed that the whole world was his something, but I now can't remember what it was.

cute mac statement of the week, for an art project at school: "I want to be president so I can make all of the rules."

Here is how much I don't want to do my work anymore: The arctic fox was apparently the only mammal native to Iceland, but people brought in Reindeer, and mice and mink and whatnot. [link]

Iceland does not, to my knowledge, have any yaks. Or reindeer, for that matter. I believe the island has no native large fauna, so if there is anybody besides humans giving milk in all of Iceland, it is good old-fashioned cows, originally imported from Norway/Sweden/Scotland.

Isn't Icelandic yogurt that crazy Skyr drink or something?

(OK, slightly off: [link]

haha! LOVE the Iceland wildlife cross-post.

Also, LOVE thick yogurt...must go in search of this stuff.

Here's the Book of the Year site, it awards "excellence in independent publishing."

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Just got back from the pharmacy, he prescribed a non-narcotic pain reliever and a muscle relaxer. I have to miss work today and tomorrow to rest and because I can't drive with this medicine, and for no particular reason, feel tremendous guilt about it.

Nothing I can do about it. I can't sit or lie down. I can't breathe without pain. He said it's a spasm.

Standing is okay, so I'm typing standing up, waiting for the muscle relaxer to work so that I can get some rest.

Meara is totally right! The stuff is called skyr. This is what I bought: [link] You can see from the picture of the container it looks irresistible. But now I don't feel like I totally fell for marketing.

also, again last night mac claimed that the whole world was his something, but I now can't remember what it was.

I think I know what he's getting for his seventh, and it's headgear!