Eanna Ni Lamhna
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And it is so vile and it is so awful that it has to be washed down with a special drink, which they call Black Death.
which is a spirit that is like poaching on speed.
It's called Brenevin, this drink.
And if you remember, they presented this to us.
You know, you go to someone's house.
I remember the smell.
You go to somebody's house and they offer you food and you must have it.
So I don't think I've ever eaten anything so vile in all my life because I have my manners and I ate it.
I think you just held your nose and ran away.
You don't think you ate it at all.
And we wondered, you know, if this is what it took to survive the winter.
There were hardy people, these Icelanders, eating this.
They still have this festival.
I know we were there a while ago.
They don't catch the Greenland shark at all for this any longer, as you might imagine.
But sometimes it's a bycatch.
And if it's a bycatch and it comes in on the boats there, they know to give it over to be treated in this fashion for a tourist attraction.
God love them.
But however, there you go.
So we have had that experience in our life together, Derek.