Whale Meat Vending Machine (1 Viewer)

[guidomerkinsrules]

You have the most profound ability to locate and post the most bizarre stories. Excellent reading.
My question is who in the hell enjoys whale meat?

My wife doesn’t seem to mind




there was a less than 0% chance I was avoiding that joke

 

[Nisey55]

My wife doesn’t seem to mind




there was a less than 0% chance I was avoiding that joke

I can take it, I asked for it.

 

[0rion]

You have the most profound ability to locate and post the most bizarre stories. Excellent reading.
My question is who in the hell enjoys whale meat?

Same culture that eats fish sperm and octopus balls.

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

We call it Sushi down here.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I can take it, I asked for it.

Now you're just trying to set him up.....

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I can take it, I asked for it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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The anticipation is building in the private, tatami-mat room at Murasaki, a restaurant in Osaka. At one end sit a handful of Japanese journalists; on the other, executives from the country’s biggest whaling company and officials from the travel industry.

In the middle, six hand-picked social influencers from Thailand, France, Russia and South Korea take their places around a hori-zataku table and wait for the first of several courses devoted to Japan’s most controversial cuisine: whale meat.

Over the next two hours they will eat dishes – simmered, grilled, deep-fried and raw as sashimi – made from the mammal’s jaw, stomach, ribs, tail, cheek and back – although it appears they have been spared another cetacean delicacy: the penis.

By the end of the banquet, their hosts hope they will take the industry’s message to their followers – that after decades of hiding in the culinary shadows, whale meat is delicious, and eating it a socially acceptable part of the tourist itinerary.

The evening began with a pep talk from Hideki Tokoro, chief executive of Kyodo Senpaku, Japan’s biggest whaling company, who claimed that hunting whales, which consume the equivalent of 4% of their body weight every day, helped protect the marine food chain.

“We need to control the whale population to protect the ecosystem,” Tokoro said. “It’s about being responsible consumers.”……..

Whale meat on the menu as Japanese suppliers try to tempt tourists

With the domestic market in long-term decline, whalers and restaurants are working with the Japan travel bureau in a bid to win over skeptical visitors

www.theguardian.com