I Ate Whale Meat

Atlantic ^ | David Nakamura

[big black dog]

One rule of thumb I generally observe while traveling abroad: Always know what something is before putting it in your mouth. Recently, I broke that rule--and ended up regretting it.

I ate whale meat.

I didn't mean to. It just sort of happened during an otherwise routine company enkai--office party--at a hole-in-the-wall izakaya called Andy's Shin Hinomoto under the Yurakucho railroad tracks in central Tokyo. I ordered a beer and sat down next to my co-workers, just as the waitress was bringing out plates of food: generous cuts of sashimi, deep-fried chicken nuggets, a sautéed mushroom salad and--what the heck was that? On a plate next to some lettuce leaves and a wedge of tomato were thin-cut strips of stringy red meat.

[Rebelbase]

My girlfriend’s 13 year old and I watched that show a couple of weeks ago. He was shocked when I went into a rant about how the whalers ought to sink the eco-freaks ship in defense of the piracy tactics employed against them.

I was promoting ramming their ship, installing a deck cannon, or a classic side by side boarding party to beat the snot out of the eco pirates and disabling their ship.

[Rebelbase]

Bravo! My son has suffered poor grades in some of his college classes because he dared to expose the class to points of view which opposed the professor’s indoctrination material.

[calex59]

I guess this liberal loony needs to off himself to get over the guilt of eating whale meat. The horrors.

[calex59]

So he ate it but didn’t know what he was eating at first. So it was sort of a fluke.

That sounds like something clinton would say.

Actually Clinton's defense was, "I didn't know what SHE was eating until it was too late!".

[GATOR NAVY]

I wonder what he said when they brought out the horse sashimi or the slugs?

Man I love horse sashimi when it's very cold and sliced thin with ginger and shoyu on the side-good stuff.

I've had whale a few times, I'm not fond of it. Too strong a taste for me. My FIL eats whale three times a week or so though, he loves it.

[GATOR NAVY]

I watch that show sometimes, as a sailor for 24 years in the Navy it’s like watching a slow motion train wreck. I’m always amazed they haven’t killed anyone yet. Absolute idiots.