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Whale Humor

Whale Humor. Whale Anyone???. whale bacon whale burger whale steak. Thursday, June 23, 2005 Whale burger on menu at fast food chain

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Whale Humor

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  1. Whale Humor

  2. Whale Anyone???

  3. whale bacon whale burger whale steak

  4. Thursday, June 23, 2005 • Whale burger on menu at fast food chain • Japan has plans to increase its whaling program, and the whale burger is one use for the meat. The $3.50 slice of fried whale on a bun is on sale at Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant chain in Japan's port city of Hakodate. Lucky Pierrot's manager Miku Oh said, "The taste and texture are somewhere between beef and fish.” Whale meat was a staple of school lunches in Japan before a moratorium on whaling was introduced in 1986. [Yahoo News | BBC]

  5. Whale health food in Japan

  6. Canned whale meat from Japan

  7. Know Your Cuts of Meat

  8. White Horse • White Horse—meat from the tapering part of the whale and the flukes

  9. Plum Pudding Plum Pudding—bits of flesh which cling to the blubber—excellent

  10. Nippers • Nippers—strips of tendon from the tapering part of the tail

  11. MOBY DICK….. • WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

  12. Moby was often sighted in the area of Mocha Island– a small island in the western pacific belonging to Chile

  13. Dick is a generic name like Jack or Tom—names of other deadly whales cited by Melville in Chapter 25 of Moby-Dick

  14. How did Mocha become Moby?

  15. No one knows for sure. • Perhaps it was a result of Melville’s writing “The Story of Toby,” which was about a fellow sailor. • Was Toby altered to Moby????? • Mocha + Toby = Moby

  16. Cutting the whale as it rolls over

  17. Hoisting the head aboard the ship

  18. Cutting the whale apart

  19. Harvesting the whale

  20. A whale’s tail

  21. Stripping Blubber—Yum!

  22. Tools for cutting the whale

  23. Slicing Blubber

  24. Modern harpooning tool

  25. A captured Sperm Whale

  26. Moby Dick

  27. “driving off the spleen” • this organ conceived of as the seat of spirit and courage or of such emotions as mirth, ill humor, melancholy, etc.

  28. hypos… • Hypochondria • Psychiatry . an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems. • excessive worry or talk about one's health.

  29. barque • Sailing ship using three or more masts

  30. brig • a two-masted vessel square-rigged on both masts. • c. the compartment of a ship where prisoners are confined

  31. schooner • Nautical . any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts.

  32. perdition • A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation • HELL

  33. consign • To hand over or transfer custody of something

  34. Pythagorean Maxim • It was a maxim of Pythagoras that the two most excellent things for man were to speak the truth, and to render benefits to each other.

  35. Fore-castle • Front or bow of ship

  36. astern • Back of ship

  37. Quarter deck • Back quarter of ship

  38. commonalty • Ordinary people

  39. cajole • Persuade through flattery or promise

  40. portentous • Momentous; ominously significant

  41. Patagonian • A region is South America extending from the Andes to the Atlantic

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