Most Inuit prefer to eat muktuk raw, as it has tender-crisp > texture and tastes like fresh coconut. In Greenland a couple of years ago we came across a group of local people just pulling a whale up on shore to be cut up. It was a fin whale about seventy feet long. Once the flensing started we managed, through sign language, to get the folks to give us some of the skin and fat to eat. The skin was exactly, in texture and consistency (no taste that I could detect) like a bicycle inner tube. The fat, however, was like really good prime rib. One of the people told us that fin is the best tasting whale. It was deliecious. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 15:48:08 PST
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