Oh, my animal loving friends, please forgive me!
I ate whale meat. There, I said it. What was I to do? There it sat in the buffet. Whale meat. It was a moment the world stood still (and only thought it did that when you met your true love). Didn't they know this was immoral and probably illegal? Well, maybe not, since I saw it on a menu in Bergen earlier today. But there I just sighed in disgust and had a bashing with my mum about it (Reagan conservative turned environmental liberal that she is - thanks Bush you changed her and my life! I can talk politics with my mom for the first time ever. Never ever let it be said that Bush didn't do at least one good thing for me personally). But there it was. And it was already dead, butchered and smoked. I had a duty to taste what I was fighting for didn't I? So I took one medium size piece and said a little prayer. Geez, it tasted horrible.
posted by Eric at
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3 Comments:
Barb stopped by the office and we laughed til tears came, you blubber eating rascal! We thank you for trying the whale meat, now we don't have to :-)
Beginning to really like checking in to see what's new...
Enjoy the polictical conversations with your mum (that steers them away from the relationship conversations...)
Pat
Bush helped my mom see the light as well! I'm no longer the "liberal outcast" that I once was in the family!
Next time you want to try whale meat you should think about doing it in Inuvik, (N.W.T. Canada for those South of the border). I had dried whale meat there when I was 2 yrs old the Inuit children went after it like candy. My sister and I followed the native children to be presented with dried whale it may have been blubber and not the meat. We each held a piece and were scared to go further until my amused father came over and tried with us he said we smiled after trying it. I just remember what I saw not what I ate.
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