In my best Rambo Voice, "I'm coming for you ...."
Posted on 08/31/2009 11:52:31 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at food.theatlantic.com ...
Were you with Andrew Zimmern?
Strangely enough, I get hungry everytime I watch “Whale Wars”.
Silly liberals..
Whale meat? Try manatee! It’s good fer ya and tastes just like.....manatee!
How precious. He cares.
What is really sad is that they probably killed that whale just for him!
I'm not sure if I should feel disappointed or relieved.
oh good grief David...grow a pair.
“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 . . “
I wonder what he said when they brought out the horse sashimi or the slugs?
Well, was it good or not?
Seriously, this guy needs to get over himself, and now I have a mad craving for sushi.
What? He wouldn't? He was already dead? Oh. nevermind.
You evil, evil person
/brainwashed
Someone ought to give him one of those things those crazy people hit themselves with in other countries...where they flog themselves over and over and get all bloody...
Probably make him feel better and someone can videotape it and put it on Youtube and all of the world can watch him do it in horrified fascination.
Which is what he wants, I think.
So he ate it but didn’t know what he was eating at first. So it was sort of a fluke.
I am from Minnesota;
I went to Tokyo to
Visit the Land of Enchantment and quaint pagoda.
I almost died the night they tried
To make me eat that yucky sushi.
They think it sounds so yummy,
But, hey, I ain't no dummy,
I knew no way it would stay down in my tummy.
I took one bite, and I was right,
No likey icky yucky sushi.
Bridge:
It took some wine, but I finally agreed
To eat that dish of dead fish and seaweed.
What happened then I don't know,
I loosened my kimono,
I make a noise like the voice of Yoko Ono.
Then just like that, right on the mat,
Me sicky icky yucky sushi.
Bridge:
Don't eat raw squid, like I did, 'cause it's true,
It make you do like when you got the flu.
So if you're in Nagoya,
Here's a suggestion for ya,
Take my advice, stick with rice, and think twice before ya
Bow in disgrace, lose lunch and face,
No picky icky yucky sushi.
No likey icky yucky sushi.
(c) 2000 by Pat Donohue (to the tune of Sukiyaki)
It tastes kinda like fatty spotted owl.
Yum Sea Cows!
From all the angst, one would think he had been tricked into trying some lutefisk.
Should have tried the spotted owl or dolphin soup!!
There ought to be a reality show about Somalian pirates too. I guess the world just isn’t post-racial enough to celebrate black pirates.
It must be a terrible burden for writers to have to constantly come up with material to write about - especially when deadlines must be met. Hence, we get articles like this one...
My kids tell their friends their Dad roots for the Japanese when watching “Whale Wars”
In fact, I simply tell them that the “Steve Irwin” can only conduct their staged outrage and faux activism against other civilized, modern parties.
Ghandi would not have lasted 5 minutes against the Soviets.
If the whales being eaten are not endangered species who cares. I see it little different than eating any other big game taken under licensing restrictions. In a recent trip to Australia I enjoyed kangaroo loin, but nothing is as good as American buffalo. Note neither taste like chicken.
I was a bit drunk and smiling at my Thia girl friend, we were at her place, we bought some fried rice from a street vender and was chowing down. She smiled at me and said monkey balls. 1971 I think.
That sounds like something clinton would say.
“If the whales being eaten are not endangered species who cares.”
I agree. Up next, dog chops and monkey stew!
Sushi is not just raw fish.
Sliced raw fish alone is "Sashimi", as distinct from "Sushi". Sushi is rice rolled into small portions with fish, egg, or vegetables and wrapped in seaweed. Sushi may have a thin slice of cooked or raw seafood on top. Sashimi consist of very thin bite-size slices of fresh raw fish, traditionally served with soy sauce and wasabi. I prefer Ahi tuna.
When my theater teacher taught us in class that we must accept other cultures I could see the mush filled heads around me nodding in agreement. I always hated this kind of unthinking acclimation. “The professor has said it so it must be true.”. I would always take these chances to make the masses start to think on their own. This time I rose my hand and asked the teacher “Do we accept female sexual mutilation in muslim countries in Africa?” she just started at me. Then I asked “Do we accept 8 year olds being sold into sexual slavery in Muslim countries?” she kind of stammered this time. Then I added “Do we accept female fetus termination in Asian countries?” She began to say something when a young girl spoke up and asked me “does that stuff really happen?” The teacher spoke over my answer and told the girl that yes that kind of stuff happened but that it was rare and that I am overstating the situation and that those things are not really part of anyones culture. I smiled and had 10 students asking me questions after class. I pointed them in the right direction and slept well that night knowing that I opened up 10 minds that will no longer take for face value what their teachers tell them.
Hat tip to Rika.
There's room for all of God's creatures...right next to the mashed potatoes.
What a wuss! I not only tried whale meat one time, I got five other guys to try it with me.
In the early 60s I was in Boston for a company training course. Boston has some very fine restaurants. One evening I spotted a Norwegian restaurant in the Dining Guide Magazine and talked 5 of my fellow trainees to go with me to explore this unknown cuisine.
At the restaurant they had a traditional Norwegian smorgasbord plus you got to order one dish off the menu. There it was: WHAlE STEAK.
I talked it up but ran into some opposition—not because of ecological concerns—but because no one had ever tasted it before. My argument was logical and irrefutable. This would be our only chance to try this delicacy. So we ordered. And the steak came out looking just like a piece of charcoaled prime beef.
Let me tell you about Whale Steak. Imagine calf liver that has been marinated in fish oil for several weeks. Norwegians and Inuits will apparently eat anything.
And the smorgasbord was nothing but inedible salted fish of various kinds.
The group made me pay for the meal.
You like Uma? I have a story about Horse Sashimi. Sounds like a similar experience. "The more you eat Japanese food - the more disgusted you become." Jack Seward
Regards,
TS
Oh now you’ve gone and done it........
AWESOME! I am going to steal that technique and use it the next time I see a weepy liberal imploring that we need to embrace diversity...
In fact, I simply tell them that the “Steve Irwin” can only conduct their staged outrage and faux activism against other civilized, modern parties. Ghandi would not have lasted 5 minutes against the Soviets.
I admit, I root for the Japanese too, although I think their "harvest for scientific study" is highly bogus.
I have this fantasy about "Whale Wars" where a Japanese warship shows up on the horizon just as the crew of the Steve Irwin are in the middle of doing something incredibly stupid and dangerous--like, oh, say rammming another ship at sea?
The Japanese declare them pirates (which, it appears to me, that they are--albeit incompetent, muddle-headed pirates) and sink their sorry lib asses with a few well-placed 76 mm rounds after they refuse to surrender and be boarded.
Then I feel guilty about that for a while, so I have another beer.
"Nuke the Gay Whales for Jesus!"
Sperm whale oil made the best automatic transmission fluid additive ever. It took a long time to overcome the loss of that when it was taken away by the govt.
I’d rather eat horse than slugs.
No way to trick anybody in anyway to eat lutefisk. There is no hiding it, disguising it or making it look (or smell) like anything other than lutefisk. Eating lutefisk would make this whiny excuse of a man start crying for his Ma Ma. A rite of passage for those of Norse heritage.
And then he blubbers about it in front of everybody.
Finally!
Oh, NOOOOOOOO - the horror!
You awful, terrible, evil, Liberal, you!
So did I, and it was pretty good; but I like mooseburgers better, especially with a tangy barbecue sauce.
Thanks, I am aware of the differences. Just thought the song fit anyway.
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