Just a general question. I know there are a lot of food-appreciative types and likewise a lot of environmental types in the wide homebrewing community. If you were, say, in Japan where its legal to my understanding, and someone offered you a bit o’ whale meat, would you try it?
Hells yeah. I’ll eat anything made of meat. No, wait… You know what I meant.
no way.
While I am not down with whale killing I admit I would try a bite if it was offered to me.
I wish they wouldn’t kill whales and just leave them alone. But if it was already dead, no use letting it go to waste. Yes…I would give it a try.
Alaska still has tribes that hunt. I saw some of their heritage first hand. They eat for months off one whale and the whole family gets some of the whale. They also serve Muktuk, blubbler…I would be willing to try meat. I passed on the muktuk…My poor wife was offered eskimo icecream. Seal blubber blended with some spices and berries for flavor. Then realized what it was and downed an ICY cold soda to try to get rid of the flavor…the blubber instantly gelled to everything in her mouth… :o
Yup
Certain species of whales are overpopulated, eat em up yum
:o ahhhh man, that would be rough! And the way fat adheres to stuff, I’d almost be ready to get the dish detergent out and do some gargling!
Depends on how much you gave me to drink beforehand.
I’m not big on killing whales, but if someone offered some blubber up to me, I’d eat it.
Blubber is only the outer layer of fat, inside is very lean meat.
NOM NOM NOM
Since 1986 there’s been a worldwide ban on whaling. I am a proponent of this ban. …and yes if I was starving to death and it was in front of me I would eat it.
Assuming that it could be legally sourced and a species that was sustainably harvested, I would certainly try it, even though I eat considerably less meat these days than in the past.
But I do enjoy trying exotic foods, and I’ve heard that whale is pretty tasty.
In any case, in reality I guess a whale steak would be no more odd or unusual than a lot of the stuff I grew up eating in a household with two generations of Eastern Europeans that consumed animals head-to-tail.
I could not imagine anything more delicious than magical whale bacon. Mmmmmm…whale bacon…
Doesn’t bacon come from the axx?
Do whales have those?
I guess I would try it if it was already there. However, I am absolutely agains whaling, unless its the eskimos who only do it for food because there is like nothing else, but what the Japanese do is just criminal. Every time I watch something on whaling, it just makes me want to take those huge harpoons and shove it up the "whale hunters’ " a$$es.
I would be perfectly happy if there was no whale meat on the market.
Why, the Japanese arent hunting whales that are threatened.
Have you seen slaughter house videos?
Chickens?
Bacon (american bacon at least) comes from the belly. And its hugely fatty and marbled, so completely unlike the very distinct separation between blubber and lean meat in whale meat. So while curing and smoking might certainly produce an interesting product, it would not be too much like bacon I’d guess. Actually curing would be a very interesting treatment given the really rich color of the meat…maybe even the salt-cured, air dried beef preparation bresaola undergoes, aged, then thinly sliced. Having never had whale meat I wouldn’t know though. Might go rancid.
Apparently back in '02 the Japanese were considering a farm for the generally plentiful Minke whales. This strikes me as an excellent idea if it is practically feasible. By partially domesticating them and learning how to breed them for foodstock you could take pressure off of natural wildlife whale stocks. Research into their breeding was also a motivation for the farm, and that seems like it could potentially help in maintaining more endangered species as well.
So a refined question would be, if whales were sustainably farmed in similar (albeit underwater) circumstances as other domesticated animals like cows/chickens/pigs, would you eat that whale meat?
I imagine the majority of folks still opposed have a special view of whales, similar to how Americans view cats/dogs/horses and many Hindus view cattle. No harm in that I guess! I draw the moral I’m-not-touching-that line at fellow members of my own species, that’s for sure.
Do you actually believe that cows\chickens\pigs are sustainably farmed?