So, disclaimers are needed here.
In Norway, they hunt Minke whale. The Minke whale is classed as “least concern”, which means “doing great” as far as being endangered goes. It’s the same category deer are in in the US, or pigeons everywhere.
So, obviously I tried whale meat, a few ways.
As a steak, it’s kinda like gamey beef in texture, but with a fish-adjacent flavour. Like if you shifted a steak 20% towards tuna without changing the texture.
There’s also whale bacon, which honestly tastes like pork bacon, but with the fat more in splotches than in layer.
There’s also the blubber, which I’ll simply an acquired taste. And that’s given that I’m Dutch and enjoy my pickled herring and even like lutefisk. It’s like if you filled a grapeskin with a nutty-oily, semi solid jelly substance.
It’s the same category deer are in in the US,
Basically, mobile, aggressively-suicidal highway barriers. Any people outside the US want to hunt themselves a deer in the US, great. Their natural predators are gone, so they’re just an unbounded infestation.
The last time I drove through West Virginia – where they’re the densest as states go – right at the state border I saw a sign warning about deer. About 300 feet behind that, roadkill deer on the road. Another 300 feet, another roadkill deer.
I meant in a “how many are there” way. You’re obviously a lot less likely to hit a Minke whale in your car.
I hit a minke whale in my pickup while driving home one night, just north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Son of a bitch breached over a guardrail and flopped down right in front of me before I’d even had a chance to hit the brakes. Hit him square in the blow hole and mangled the whole front end of the truck. The fishy bastard just dusted himself off and fucked off into the night, making them wierd ass whale noises at me the whole time. Ever since that night, I take the long way home.
It sounds like that was whaley traumatizing for you :(
Sometimes, when I think about it, I just start blubbering.
Thank you! Sometimes I go looking up things like, “what does x taste like” where x is something not very many people would eat culturally or the like, and is so hard to find info!
It’s like if you filled a grapeskin with a nutty-oily, semi solid jelly substance.
That’s such a visceral description, I already hate it without experiencing it for myself. Sounds like really wet, soft steak fat which I can’t stand either.
Y’all are too mature.
Clearly, it tastes like your mom.
GOT DAMN!!
Had some in Japan, it was terrible. Also fried beyond recognition, so there is that
I guess you could say it was…whale done.
I had a minke whale steak in Iceland. I describe it as “ocean-y beef” in its flavor.
Almost as good as human if you grill it right.
Fatty I am told.
Whale
I always assumed it tasted like shark?
what does shark taste like?
Mako shark tastes like marlin or swordfish (same meaty texture too) but with a little sweetness.
a bit like dolphin
What does dolphin taste like?
A bit like Seaturtle
My brother works at a restaurant where the head chef mentioned that he has tried sea turtle soup. The chef said that it’s a good thing that sea turtle is illegal to consume because the soup and texture of the meat was so perfect that sea turtles would be guaranteed to go extinct otherwise.
That’s why island tortoises were almost wiped out by European sailors
Canned tuna fish.
Kinda like a marginal steak and a good mushroom had a baby.
I’ve heard that if it’s cooked right, it’s really gooooo00000000ooooooood
sorry
As every sci-fi book and movie suggest, probably like chicken.
Well shit. You ever see how much meat they get off a cow? It’s enough to feed like a small neighborhood.
Now imagine how much meat we could get from a whale! Forget save the whales. Lets over-breed the wales, and feed EVERYBODY by whale farming!
Seriously! How have NONE of us tried wale meat, but they’re the biggest source of meat on the planet???!!!
Only issue I can see is that you can’t exactly pull one onto a fishing boat…
I had Minke whale in Tromsø and it tasted pretty much like beef. Would not eat again
Do you not like beef? Or was it another reason you wanted to avoid eating it?
I like beef but if it just taste like beef I’m not going to pay the premium just to get beeg anyway.
Ok, thanks. That makes sense
I always assumed whale would be too fatty.
Well, I don’t have to assume. I know for a fact it is. It’s disgusting. I threw up.
