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Whale Humor

Whale Anyone? ? ?

whale bacon whale burger whale steak

• 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]

Whale health food in Japan

Canned whale meat from Japan

Know Your Cuts of Meat

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

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

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

MOBY DICK…. . • WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

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

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

How did Mocha become Moby?

• 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

Cutting the whale as it rolls over

Hoisting the head aboard the ship

Cutting the whale apart

Harvesting the whale

A whale’s tail

Stripping Blubber—Yum!

Tools for cutting the whale

Slicing Blubber

Modern harpooning tool

A captured Sperm Whale

Moby Dick

“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.

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.

barque • Sailing ship using three or more masts

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

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.

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

consign • To hand over or transfer custody of something

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.