I was just watching Good Morning Japan and a really appalling human interest segment.
Whale meat! Back in school lunches after twenty years!
Yay! Kids like deep-fried, crispy whale nuggets! They have to marinate it in lots of soy sauce and ginger to get the yucky smell out, and then into the industrial fryer it goes. Kids just love it.
Whale meat! Back in the supermarkets. You can get 100 grams of whale sashimi for just ¥ 500. Whale bacon is the most popular whale product. The consumers say, "I love it. It's so nostalgic."
Whale meat! Let's look at a seminar about new whale preparations. You can make nasty-looking whale dip and eat it with saltines.
I like whales and all, but not to eat. I think of them as sort of cousins. The kind of relative that you don't get to see much, but you don't want to chow down on either. (I just read an article about cannibals in Borneo.)
163 words | October 16, 2006 07:33 PM | Lost in translation