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| School has new hot lunch: Whale curry |
| 2005-09-13 |
| A public junior high school in Japan's northern port town of Kushiro had a new item on the menu for its students Monday -- rice topped with whale curry. The meat is from minke whales the local whalers had caught just off the coast of Kushiro on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, Kyodo News agency reported. Whale meat returned to public school lunches in Kushiro, the former whaling hub about 560 miles northeast of Tokyo, last year for the first time in 38 years as part of the city-sponsored campaign to promote whale meat. Whale meat dishes, however, are not on the menu every day. The whale curry will be served at elementary schools in town on Tuesday, and whale meat croquettes are planned in January, Kyodo said. Japan on Friday started a seasonal hunt off Kushiro's coast as part of a research program, which whaling opponents say is little more than a thinly veiled resumption of commercial whaling. Japan's Fisheries Agency claims the hunt is aimed at |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #6 What ever happened to all the early internet models? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-13 18:39 |
| #5 'beached' in other words. <) Yup, no perspective, no future, the body of an out-of-shape 50-years old with old man's tits and an hairy butt, all my fault... I'm depressed, I think I should go to Japan eat some whale to cheer me up. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-13 16:04 |
| #4 Now I'm fat and hapless, and I don't travel anymore, so no more whale for me. 'beached' in other words. <) |
| Posted by: Glemp Elmeamble8612 2005-09-13 13:22 |
| #3 #1: cant they make some kinda Whale farm those clever Japanese, think giant swimming pool for whales :) Yep, they're called "Oceans" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-13 11:59 |
| #2 Back in the olden days, I went to Groënland with my very small rural school, spent quite some time there (about 4 weeks), and eat whale both in stews and as "chewing gum" (little dices of skin+fat to chew), eat seal, too. All in all, very good memories, even if the teacher was some kind of pedo who liked to see us kidz naked. Now I'm fat and hapless, and I don't travel anymore, so no more whale for me. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-13 06:16 |
| #1 cant they make some kinda Whale farm those clever Japanese, think giant swimming pool for whales :) |
| Posted by: Glavins Glereting2921 2005-09-13 05:42 |