Comments on: Cultural Learnings of Iceland, Part 3: Lýsi http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/01/16/lysi/ How do you like Iceland? - a blog about Icelandic nature, nightlife, parties, adventure, shopping, eating, drinking, recovering and much more. It's brought to you by the good people of Iceland Express, Iceland's low-fare airline, as a way of luring you to Reykjavík. Go on, read it. Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Fernán http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/01/16/lysi/comment-page-1/#comment-2428 Fernán Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:20:50 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/01/16/lysi/#comment-2428 I take the shark one everyday in winter, in pills. In the beginning of the winter I didn't take it, although an Icelandic friend of mine recommendeded it to me. I thought that maybe it was more about hype than real facts. However, with the cold wind, my skin in my hands started to get a bit bad. So I decided to try it. My friend drinks it straight from the bottle. I tried to do the same and arg... not my kind of flavour exactly, so I went for the pills. We want vanilla-skyr flavoured lýsi! This is my first winter in Iceland and I haven't got any cold or flu so far (touch wood!). I usually get one or more colds throughout the winter in Spain (the city where I live is a cold one, it's not like those tourist places!). So I'd say lýsi works (and maybe Skyr and Kókómjólk too :P). I take the shark one everyday in winter, in pills. In the beginning of the winter I didn’t take it, although an Icelandic friend of mine recommendeded it to me. I thought that maybe it was more about hype than real facts. However, with the cold wind, my skin in my hands started to get a bit bad. So I decided to try it. My friend drinks it straight from the bottle. I tried to do the same and arg… not my kind of flavour exactly, so I went for the pills. We want vanilla-skyr flavoured lýsi!

This is my first winter in Iceland and I haven’t got any cold or flu so far (touch wood!). I usually get one or more colds throughout the winter in Spain (the city where I live is a cold one, it’s not like those tourist places!). So I’d say lýsi works (and maybe Skyr and Kókómjólk too :P).

]]> By: Christian http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/01/16/lysi/comment-page-1/#comment-2414 Christian Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:47:03 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/01/16/lysi/#comment-2414 For some reason there is this big misconception in the Netherlands (we call it levertraan) that it's being made from whale's liver... And then, back in October... they made fools of themselves: http://foksuk.nl/imggif.php?i=/upload/d1289.gif It translates 'Fokke & Sukke are going into biological nutrition' 'New harvest! New harvest!' 'The one and only Icelandic lýsi!' Nice try, but... no, they missed the point :-) Sigh... I have to explain this over and over again. But now I can just point them to this article, yes! (And they can directly book a flight while they're here) For some reason there is this big misconception in the Netherlands (we call it levertraan) that it’s being made from whale’s liver…

And then, back in October… they made fools of themselves: http://foksuk.nl/imggif.php?i=/upload/d1289.gif
It translates ‘Fokke & Sukke are going into biological nutrition’ ‘New harvest! New harvest!’ ‘The one and only Icelandic lýsi!’

Nice try, but… no, they missed the point :-)

Sigh… I have to explain this over and over again. But now I can just point them to this article, yes! (And they can directly book a flight while they’re here)

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