Kjotsupudagurinn (Icelandic Meat Soup Day) - Reykjavik 2008
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Usually held around late October.
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Event Details
- Date & Time
- Saturday, October 25, 2008
- Location
- Skólavörðustígur, Reykjavík, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Price
- free
About This Event
Kjötsúpudagurinn, the Icelandic Meat Soup Day, began as a neighbourhood idea by two Skólavörðustígur shopkeepers and grew into a street party with chefs, farmers and thousands of visitors. Several restaurants run soup stations along the street, each with its own take on the lamb, root vegetable and rice soup, and the first bowl traditionally goes to the inmates of the old Hegningarhúsið prison. Soup is free and served in the early afternoon until it runs out, which it usually does. Queues are part of the fun, so go at the start.
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Organizer
- Skólavörðustígur shopkeepers; Markaðsráð kindakjöts (lamb marketing board) promoted the day
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Location
Skólavörðustígur, Reykjavík, Reykjavik, Iceland
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What's on
Shops on Skólavörðustígur served meat soup between 2 and 4 pm. Eyjafréttir (23 October 2008) says the lamb marketing board Markaðsráð kindakjöts promotes the Meat Soup Day each year with advertising that urges people to cook Icelandic meat soup on the first day of winter. Veitingageirinn reports a crowd and an annual growth in visitors, with 'more than 500 litres' of soup and four soup stations: one with a vegetable soup from the Yggdrasill shop, Siggi Hall outside the Hegningarhúsið prison as usual, one at the corner of Skólavörðustígur and Týsgata, and one outside Eggert feldskeri.