[mylife]

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Muktuk is just the blubber isnt it?

The mexicans make something like that with pork fat. pickled.

[proud_yank]

Muktuk is just the blubber isnt it?

It is. It is white, and the end of it was black (which I am guessing was skin or the layer right under the skin). It had a fairly firm and more rubbery texture to it, not what I'd describe as being 'blubbery'- i.e. like fat on a steak.