Whale - Round Two

So, as you have heard in the previous blogs I tried muktuk and it did not go so well. Today we heard that the mayor was serving the whale that he and his crew landed a couple of days ago. So we drove over to his house where they were serving pre-packaged (meaning a variation of different parts of whale in a plastic grocery bag) whale out of a card board box. Then they give us this soupy fruit drink in a Dixie cup which is to go with the whale.

I brought my bag of goodies back to the college and opened it up. It contained unalik (cooked whale blubber), whale meat, tongue, intestine, and a piece of sourdough bread. With much hesitation I tried a bit of unalik. It did not taste any better than the muktuk I tried a couple weeks ago, but this time I did mange to swallow it.

Britt tried some of the whale and was much braver than I was. She ate the unalik, meat, and intestine. She liked everything except the intestine which I guess was a bit too chewy for her.

Below are some pictures recapturing the experience.










Staying whale free,

Cassandra