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2010-01-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Flipper pie is a Canadian dish made from seal flippers. It is specific to Newfoundland and commonly eaten at Easter.

The tender meat of the seal flipper, carrots & turnip are blended in a thick gravy, topped with a biscuit crust.

Flipper pie is not an everyday meal...but it does make a nice Sunday dinner, or a special occasion meal. The meat is dark, oily and gamey. The flavour is similar to that of hare, but it is much richer and denser in texture.

Newfoundland Flipper Pie

2 seal flippers
1 small turnip, cubed
3 carrots , sliced
2 onions, sliced
1 parsnip, sliced
2 ½ cups water
1 ½ oz screech
½ fat back pork
2 tbsp vinegar

DUMPLING PASTRY:
1 ½ cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
small pat of butter

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-30 01:06|| 2010-01-30 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2

Im of several minds on this:

Having watched a video of this "Newfoundland way of doing things" which was difficult to watch I have these few simple observations:

1. Two wrongs don't make a right.

2. Causing needless suffering to baby seals is not a political issue, its a humane issue, and it high time hunters abided a code to reduce suffering wherever is possible.

3. We're the top of the food chain and we're being outdone by some of our subordinate mammals in terms of kill efficiency.

4. You can kill a prey quickly to put it out of its misery and you should.

Way to go Newfoundland You're mightily sick and wrong on both sides of the issue- get a new hobby the lot of you, PETA included.

Posted by GirlThursday 2010-01-30 01:38|| 2010-01-30 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 People
Eating
Tasty
Animal advocates

The Promotion

A man was captured by cannibals. "What," asked the cannibal chief, licking his lips, "was your job before you were captured?"
"I was a newspaper man," came the reply.
"An editor?"
"No, merely a sub-editor."
"Cheer up. Promotion awaits you. After dinner you will be editor-in-chief."

Posted by Uloluter Darling of the Munchkins5034 2010-01-30 11:34|| 2010-01-30 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm pretty sure tourists pay to go on baby seal hunts in Norway, we're hunters people, humans are carniverous, we have eyes in the front of our heads for binocular vision,easier to size up prey accurately. We have hunted for millions of years too.
Caveman Bob didnt have the option of "buying" organic soy/flax oil yogurt nuts. No he went out and killed a deer while the wifey picked innumerable berries and nuts (hence the flattened teeth of humans) PETA people would have been very hungry people.

Posted by 746 2010-01-30 11:55|| 2010-01-30 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 No, 746, they just want us to be hungry.

Posted by Bobby 2010-01-30 15:12|| 2010-01-30 15:12|| Front Page Top

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