22 Dec 2009

My Local Butcher

... is a wonderous old fashioned place.



Idsø has been in Stavanger 175 years and is definitely an institution. I love going in and smelling the slightly repulsive odour of raw and smoked meats. Around Christmas the place is crazy with people wanting to get their pinnekjøtt (salted and/or smoked and dried lamb) or ribbe (pork with crackling).



I had to wait for an hour and a half, but fortunately they have delicious sausage samples.



I was in for a turkey (which apparently I had to order three weeks ago, so we're having beautiful organic chicken on Christmas day instead). But I had to get some bacon (American style like the sign sais) and some sausages.



They have amazing sausages. I got some sosisser: small white sausages that you normally eat with ribbe (which I won't get this year as my parents are in Aussie, and I'm spending Christmas Eve with the in laws and they eat pinnekjøtt.

Sigh.

Christmas will never be the same.



1 comment:

  1. Amazing! I visited a place this Christmas very similar, smells-sights-fun to look at all the itmes, to get suet to make Yorkshire pudding...

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