- 15 Mar 2003
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Delicious 
Actually, no, it was pretty boring. First a little background before I am painted as the forumite who eats whales and should suffer accordingly.
Today was "olden-time food day" as I have come to call it. In our elementary / middle school cafeteria once a month they serve food people ate during World War Two or before, and try and do foods that were on the average dinner table. I don't know what the kids are supposed to learn as it is not accompanied by an explination of why they had to eat this. I think all the kids learn is that food back then was pretty dull.
In this vein then, for the first time in over a year, they served up whale cooked and doused in a red sauce of no real description. Now, I have had the chance to eat whale meat, "good" stuff not what was in the lunchroom kitchens, and I have passed it up. This time however, I figured I would try it.
The whale was kind of chewy, had a very mild but slightly odd taste to it, and was not repulsive. Let me tell you I have had far worse in that cafeteria. It was kind of black looking in the way beef jerky is. I don't know if they was from the cooking or that is how it arrived. Of course there was a bit of fat. That said, lunch today was average on the calorie side of things. I must say, and this is probably why whale found its way into impoverished diets, it was very filling. I still feel full almost 4 hours later.
You all can reopen the whaling debate if you wish. I know that is a possible outcome of me posting this. All I really wanted to do was pass on a little moment of life in Japan where from time to time, whale meat does make an appearence.
Again, I am not trying to be insensitive, just reporting.
Actually, no, it was pretty boring. First a little background before I am painted as the forumite who eats whales and should suffer accordingly.
Today was "olden-time food day" as I have come to call it. In our elementary / middle school cafeteria once a month they serve food people ate during World War Two or before, and try and do foods that were on the average dinner table. I don't know what the kids are supposed to learn as it is not accompanied by an explination of why they had to eat this. I think all the kids learn is that food back then was pretty dull.
In this vein then, for the first time in over a year, they served up whale cooked and doused in a red sauce of no real description. Now, I have had the chance to eat whale meat, "good" stuff not what was in the lunchroom kitchens, and I have passed it up. This time however, I figured I would try it.
The whale was kind of chewy, had a very mild but slightly odd taste to it, and was not repulsive. Let me tell you I have had far worse in that cafeteria. It was kind of black looking in the way beef jerky is. I don't know if they was from the cooking or that is how it arrived. Of course there was a bit of fat. That said, lunch today was average on the calorie side of things. I must say, and this is probably why whale found its way into impoverished diets, it was very filling. I still feel full almost 4 hours later.
You all can reopen the whaling debate if you wish. I know that is a possible outcome of me posting this. All I really wanted to do was pass on a little moment of life in Japan where from time to time, whale meat does make an appearence.
Again, I am not trying to be insensitive, just reporting.
