Canada non-Ping!
Posted on 10/16/2013 8:14:44 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
MONTREAL — When Kim Côté and Perle Morency added a seal-meat burger to the menu of their popular bistro in Kamouraska, Que., they decided to have some fun with the name. The Phoque Bardot Burger — combining the French word for seal and the name of the actress known for her campaign against the Canadian seal hunt — became one of the restaurant’s top sellers.
But last month news of the couple’s creation made its way across the Atlantic, and animal-rights activists there failed to see the humour. A French Facebook page called “Defend the animals and protect nature” reported the burger was concocted from “the meat of massacred baby seals” and lamented that its name was disrespectful toward Brigitte Bardot.
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Canada non-Ping!
Seal meat is strong stuff, something you cook outdoors.
Looks tasty. Is that a cute little flipper and nose I see in that seal burger?
"Mmmmmmmmmm, seal meat."
I would sooner eat the neighbor than eat a seal.
His name was “Nuisance”. I was 11 years old. I had spent a year in the hospital and my mom would take me to the beach for long walks to help build my strength. Nuisance was about 3 days old and found alone on the beach. We didn’t know that his mom had likely left him on the beach while she went hunting for food.
Fisherman had been shooting seals that morning, so we figured that he was an orphan and just waiting to die. We wrapped my moms coat around him and took him home.
We quickly learned what we needed to know to help him survive.
I raised my buddy Nuisance for almost 4 years. He was as smart as a dog and there were 6 of us kids for him to love. We raised another seal, “Sammy”. Sammy belonged to the Portland Zoo. He was a biter and they wanted us to socialize him. After about 6 months, Sammy became very friendly, quit biting and learned a good many tricks.
Nope, you will never see me eating a seal.....it would be like eating a pet dog.
Seal meat is a favorite when I am working at sea on the nuclear powered whaling station.
She would rather we ate them still alive? But they squirm so!
Think of it Klingon fusion cuisine.
I believe in PETA:
P = people
E = eating
T = tasty
A = animals.
Bon appetite, mes amis!
Bear stinks too.
I like that story.
There’s a place for all of the creatures of the Earth. Right next to the mashed potatoes.
I am pleased that you do. It’s true....just a very short version.
That “meat” looks like a couple of the field mice I pulled out of a rattlesnakes belly that wandered into deer camp. (well, really we were digging a trench for a water line and he came out of his burrow beneath a tree right next to us.)
A baby seal walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “What’ll ya have?”
The seal replies, “Anything but Canadian Club!”
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