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Maybe a good fish & ship shop?

In reply to Loughan:

There are so many reasons why this is a bad idea:

a) Whale tastes pretty bad (I've tried it, wouldn't recommend it)
b) Whales aren't technically 'fish', so don't belong on a chippy menu
c) Many whale species are endangered, and even the ones that aren't are not really hunted in the most humane way

In reply to Loughan:

What you need is some transparent aluminum.

In reply to Removed UserFuchs:


Either are sausages, or burgers, or black pudding etc. Or chips for that matter...

In reply to aln:

>Or chips for that matter...

I think you'll find that's covered in the second part of the establishment's name...

In reply to Loughan:

Never tried whale meat myself but granny did during the war as it wasn't rationed. My granny was a thrifty individual who believed in being value for money, but she said it tasted awful and never bought it again.

In reply to Oceanrower:



It is indeed. Hence my post as the person I was replying to didn't seem to get that

In reply to Jenny C:


Eh...

In reply to EddInaBox:

Keyboard! How quaint

In reply to Jenny C:


It was quite popular in the war, even to the extent of Vera Lynn releasing the popular song encouraging people to eat "Whale meat, again" on some sunny days.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Keyboard! How quaint

Computer, computer?

In reply to Loughan:

I would start by going across the Severn Bridge.

In reply to Loughan:

You'll probably find some on Barry Island this weekend.

In reply to Loughan:

Attempt's too attract spelling pedants' for use as whale bait so far unsuccessful

In reply to FactorXXX:



Noo-clear wessles?
LD

In reply to Loughan:

Showing my age...

youtube.com/watch?v=3Z46oREjJLc&

In reply to Loughan:


Don't harp oon too much, you'll catch one soon.

In reply to Loughan:

A friend ate whale meat on an expedition to Greenland. He said it was nice but he couldn't eat a whole one.

In reply to Loughan:

The apostrophe police are watching though...

In reply to


How about one of the Lidos?

In reply to summo:


Only if you approach the matter with a real sense of porpoise

In reply to Removed UserFuchs:


An Irish colleague and I were working on Spitsbergen many years ago. We were sitting eating dinner in the canteen when a Norwegian guy asked my mate - "Hey Irish, how do you like de vale?" to which he replied "Veal? This isn't veal!". "No, my friend", said the Norwegian, "not weel, vale, vale, you know, de big fishis vot svim in de sea!". The rest of his meal went in the bin.

Actually, I thought it was quite nice, like strong venison!

In reply to AndyC:

Probably also depends on the species? I had fin whale, and frankly, it looked and felt a lot like normal mammal meat, but tasted really watery, 'blubbery'.

In reply to AndyC:

Chucking it in the bin doesn't bring the animal back to life so he may as well have finished it at that point.

In reply to davidbeynon:

On a serious note, that way you could justify eating or processing anything. "It's already hunted/dead, so I may as well use it.", but this just creates more demand, demonstrating to whalers/poachers/the industry that their products are being bought and used.

That's why authorities burn seized ivory and don't just use it for something.

In reply to Removed UserFuchs:

In the anecdote I was replying to it had already been paid for. The incentive to sell more had been provided. It is analogous to the authorities in question paying the poachers market rates for the ivory and then burning it.

Boycotting things only works if you don't pay them. Chalking it up to experience and taking care to not buy it again is going to be more effective than throwing a hissy fit and chucking a half eaten meal in the bin.

In reply to Loughan:

"Whales unite,
Whales will fight,
Whales will go on eating plankton,
Whales we are nice,
Whales full of spice,
We don't like being wanked on"

Derek and Clive (the Whale National Anthem)

In reply to davidbeynon:


No "hissy fit", just an instantaneous loss of appetite on his part. I guess you might experience the same if you suddenly found out that juicy steak on your plate was of canine not bovine origin.

In reply to Removed UserFuchs:


Tried it in Iceland. It actually tastes a lot like swan.

In reply to ThunderCat:


Liz Windsor on line 1!

In reply to AndyC:

Just for the record...I was joking







It's more like kestrel than swan.

In reply to ThunderCat:


50 shades of chicken!

In reply to AndyC:

Well I certainly wouldn't want to do it very often - dangerous levels of vitamin A in most carnivores. It would need to be very well cooked as well.

I don't think I would find it inherently more disgusting than any other animal though - pigs are at least as smart after all.

In reply to davidbeynon:



Only in the Liver.

In reply to DancingOnRock:

I knew the liver was particularly toxic but I thought there were high levels throughout.

In reply to ThunderCat:



Somewhere between albatross and eagle, then ?