Food in Iceland

Iceland being such a cold place, covered with snow and ice most of the year, what do people eat over there?  

I am afraid I am not an expert on that.  But we did get a glimpse from our 8 day experience over there.  First of all, they surely eat a lot of fish: trout, cod, halibut, … Very good fish, relatively mild in flavour. 

They also eat a lot of lamb.  Very good lamb, tender and strong lamb-like flavour - which I like.  By the way, they can run very fast, which may be surprising to some.  I once saw a flock nibbling calmly in a grass field and tried to approach them to take some photos.  When I was still quite some distance away, they started to run and cross a road, and I couldn’t catch up.  Fortunately there were no cars on the road, otherwise they could have been a traffic accident.  

Reindeer pate.  Very strong liver flavour - which I like also. 

Smoked puffin meat.  Puffin being those comical and colourful - orange and black - birds the size of a small seagull that live in holes on cliffs.  The meat is dark red, smoky and tender.  They are very cute.  Apparently they are still quite abundant.  And people use it for food regularly.  

We once ate some roasted pork which looks and tastes very much like Chinese roasted pork.  A pleasant surprise for us. 

At a small fishing village, we saw some fish drying on a rack in the sun.  Initially i thought they were salted fish.  Upon close inspection, they were all bones and tails.  Not quite sure whether they were intended for food or otherwise.  

They do have good milk, cheese, herrings, etc.