Meat Soup Day online - Reykjavik 2020
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Usually held around late October.
Based on 14 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- Saturday, October 24, 2020
- Location
- Online (Facebook live from the Súlnasalur at Hótel Saga, 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
- Landssamtök sauðfjárbænda (sheep farmers) and Sölufélag garðyrkjumanna (vegetable growers), with the Skólavörðustígur pioneers
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Location
Online (Facebook live from the Súlnasalur at Hótel Saga, Reykjavík), Reykjavik, Iceland
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Because of the COVID gathering ban the street party was replaced by a live stream on the Lambakjöt Facebook page at 1 pm on the first day of winter. Chef Gísli Matthías Auðunsson cooked the 'grandma's meat soup' that the public had voted the best of four recipes on Facebook (voting until 21 October), from the Súlnasalur ballroom at Hótel Saga, covering how to choose the meat, which vegetables are in season, and the history of the soup. About 8,000 people watched. The organisers urged viewers to cook their own soup at home that evening. The poster is the livestream promotion showing Gísli Matthías holding a pot of soup.