Hello!

Have you ever eaten Skyr? What? You don't even know what Skyr is? 

Well, don't worry, neither did I, until a few weeks ago. You aren't ignorant or something.

One day, I was looking for something to eat after my dance class...

Maybe it's better if I make one step back. Why was  I looking for something to eat after dancing sessions? Because someone told me that, in order to recover from microtraumas in calf muscles that happen after intense practice, I should eat, soon after the end of the lesson, something which could provide me at least 10 grams of proteins. I wasn't 100% sold on that theory, but somehow it made sense, so I thought: "Why not?"

Unfortunately, I couldn't cook a steak in the dance school's parking area and I didn't like eating a cold steak cooked in advance. So I usually went for legumes, hummus, nuts, almonds or yogurts. They say that dairy proteins would be the best for healing muscle, so yogurt or cheese maybe would have been the best choice, but  I'm not a close friend to dairy products, since I don't like the taste. But I can stand yogurt, especially Greek yogurt, which luckily is the richest in proteins.

Then someone else told me that if I go to bed after exercising and without eating carbs or fats, I will burn fat while I sleep, because of a so-called "afterburn effect".

So I thought it was better to prefer yogurt, because I am always hoping to lose those two grams from my tights. Greek yogurt was the lowest on carbs and fats among the foods I used to buy,  but unfortunately the shop next to my dance school (a Lidl shop) only sells extra-big pots of greek yogurt. Too big for an after-exercise snack. I can't eat a kilogram of yogurt just before going to bed.

Then I noticed a row of little pots just beside the greek yogurt compartment. They were labeled "Skyr" and I always thought that was a brand of regular yogurt. But it wasn't!  When I read the label in detail, I found out it was an Icelandic cheese.  Fortunately, I read that part of the label after having eaten it: I don't buy cheese. But it has virtually no fat, no carbs and a lot of proteins and it is inexpensive. And yes, that's what I read first and that's why I  bought it. 

It seems weird to buy Icelandic cheese in a German chain of shops in Italy. By the way, it tastes exactly like Greek yogurt, and this fact greatens the weirdness of the situation.

So, I bought the Skyr and was about to eat it, when I realized I had no spoon. I always carry along a spoon, but not that day. So I started to think about a solution.

Suddenly, I recalled having in the car a long drinking straw, which has come with some McDonald's Happy Meal a couple of centuries before and which no one has ever used. So I tried to sip the Skyr through the straw, but it couldn't be properly sipped, because it was too thick. At that point, I was imagining me, after two days, still in that parking area and very busy sipping that Skyr.

Then, another odd idea hit something in my brain: what if folded in two the straw and used it as a pair of chopsticks? Would the Skyr be thick enough to break in pieces and to be eaten that way? Or would it melt and thus lead me to an experience similar to eating soup with a fork?

Well, for the curious ones: the Skyr was so cold it didn't liquefy and I ended up eating an Icelandic cheese from a German shop in Italy with Japanese utensils.