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It WAS a joke, but I know the place (have read about it), and I know that the house is used by a puffin hunting club in Iceland, but I've never been there or eaten puffins.
Judging only by the taste of the divers and the sea ducks I've eaten I imagine it tastes like shit. Most birds that eat fish and meat take a lot of preparation to make them taste like anything but shit. I'm sure they'd be fine in gumbo...
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So, I was only kind of imagining that they must smoke them to make them at all edible. Some googling around delivers a "Puffin in milk" recipe from Iceland, where the birds are brined and then soaked in milk and cooked in the milk. This is is a sure sign you are trying to kill a nasty taste. I pretty much brine every duck breast overnight except teal and mallard, and soak divers and sea ducks in buttermilk overnight to try and reduce the taste of shit. Hey, some people like it. Just like some people like licking ass.
I guess they just pass shoot them. I can't imagine calling them into decoys, but honestly I have no idea. Knowing the Scandinavians are descended from sea going thieves and rapists (I am one), maybe they shoot them off their nests.
It WAS a joke, but I know the place (have read about it), and I know that the house is used by a puffin hunting club in Iceland, but I've never been there or eaten puffins.
Judging only by the taste of the divers and the sea ducks I've eaten I imagine it tastes like shit. Most birds that eat fish and meat take a lot of preparation to make them taste like anything but shit. I'm sure they'd be fine in gumbo...
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So, I was only kind of imagining that they must smoke them to make them at all edible. Some googling around delivers a "Puffin in milk" recipe from Iceland, where the birds are brined and then soaked in milk and cooked in the milk. This is is a sure sign you are trying to kill a nasty taste. I pretty much brine every duck breast overnight except teal and mallard, and soak divers and sea ducks in buttermilk overnight to try and reduce the taste of shit. Hey, some people like it. Just like some people like licking ass.
I guess they just pass shoot them. I can't imagine calling them into decoys, but honestly I have no idea. Knowing the Scandinavians are descended from sea going thieves and rapists (I am one), maybe they shoot them off their nests.
The whale steaks in Alta, Norway are definitely kind of fishy.
The raspberry puree they put on top takes a bit of the edge off. But realistically, the bottle of French Red took the edge off better.
Ummmmmm whale steak. Had to try it once!
Sirhr
Apparently the idiots writing headlines for Fox News were just promoted from the Department of Redundancy Department.
Really? And noone called, say, an "Editor" picked this up?
They are all dumber than a sack of hair now...
Sirhr
Really? And noone called, say, an "Editor" picked this up?
They are all dumber than a sack of hair now...
Sirhr
A region of the world that eats fermented fish trying to kill some funky taste sounds pretty awful. I’ll definitely pass on that and just eat some muttonIt WAS a joke, but I know the place (have read about it), and I know that the house is used by a puffin hunting club in Iceland, but I've never been there or eaten puffins.
Judging only by the taste of the divers and the sea ducks I've eaten I imagine it tastes like shit. Most birds that eat fish and meat take a lot of preparation to make them taste like anything but shit. I'm sure they'd be fine in gumbo...
Edit:
So, I was only kind of imagining that they must smoke them to make them at all edible. Some googling around delivers a "Puffin in milk" recipe from Iceland, where the birds are brined and then soaked in milk and cooked in the milk. This is is a sure sign you are trying to kill a nasty taste. I pretty much brine every duck breast overnight except teal and mallard, and soak divers and sea ducks in buttermilk overnight to try and reduce the taste of shit. Hey, some people like it. Just like some people like licking ass.
I guess they just pass shoot them. I can't imagine calling them into decoys, but honestly I have no idea. Knowing the Scandinavians are descended from sea going thieves and rapists (I am one), maybe they shoot them off their nests.
I've never eaten the actual whale meat, but up in Tuktoyaktuk I ate dried caribou meat dipped in rendered whale oil...once. After that I just ate the jerky plain. Tasted like powerful rotten fish. Totally nasty.
They pickled the fish so it would last on long voyages with no refrigeration. That allowed them to extend the reach of their stealing, raping, and pillaging considerably.
This seems like a perfect time for another surstromming video
The Norse actually carried cattle with them in their longboats... They had a number of cows at their settlement in L'Anse aux Meadow in Newfoundland.
It was what started the 'issues' with the Natives (which the Norse called Skralings). Things started off pretty good. But the Norse gave the Natives milk, thinking they would like it as a delicacy. But they were not used to milk and it made them all sick. And they thought they had been poisoned. So after that, they were rather relentless in attacking the settlement. To the point that the Norse said, in essence, screw this.
If it hadn't been for that milk, North America might have been settled in the 900's. And the world might be a really different place!
And I still love the term "Skralings." Really sums up the casino owners and the cheap tobacco shop proprietors well!
Cheers,
Sirhr
PS. They weren't Vikings unless they were raiding. Viking is a job title, not an ethnicity. They were Norse... or Norsemen (Northmen.)
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Interestingly, there have been some evidence of Norse exploration up the St. Lawrence almost all the way to Montreal... But there is a lot of pushback, especially from the Canadian Native population. Why? I have no idea. Maybe they think they are going to lose their claims or something?
Personally, I think it makes a lot of sense. If there was a river, the Norse were going up it!
Vinland could not have been in Newfoundland. Grapes didn't grow there. So the 'opinion' is that the Norse sailed down the North American Coast, maybe as far as Cape Cod or Manhattan, where grapes grew wild. This is probably correct. But the L'Anse aux Meadows site is also right at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. And a giant river would have been a huge draw to people who sailed their longboats deep into Russia and up the Seine to Paris... and the Rhine into Germany. IMHO, they could not have resisted the 'draw' of the St. Lawrence. And both butternuts and grapes grew along its banks as you got into the Maritime provinces and what is now Quebec.
Also, I'll make the assertion that the Norse were 'not' a seafaring people. They were a littoral people. Their boats were not made for open ocean sailing. They were shallow draft. Didn't have great keels or an ability to deal with large open ocean waves. Even during 'nice' times of years. Most of their routes hugged the coasts and they made 'island hopping' jumps across open water to Iceland, Greenland and then, of course, Labrador. Where they sailed south to L'Anse aux Meadows and settled for about 10 years.
With a 'base' available for a decade... access to bog iron (they had smelting/forges at their settlement) to make nails and fittings... they could easily have built the smaller boats needed for river exploration.
Sooner or later, I think they will find more evidence down the St. Lawrence. And find that Vinland was not necessarily Cape Cod or the Southern Maine coast.
The whole postulation goes against the current dogma of Norse exploration. But while I was watching the Labrador highway unfold in front of me for 1000 miles or so a couple of years ago... it just sort of dawned on me that the Norse almost certainly went as far as they could... perhaps only getting thwarted by the Lachine rapids (LaChine named by French Explorers 500 years later because they thought they had reached China -- La Chine). Even for the Norse boats, those rapids may have ended their exploration. Plus there was heavy "Skraling" settlement in the area and they would have been possibly reluctant to engage with them and trade with them (the Norse were first and foremost traders) after their experiences in Newfoundland.
Be fun to go to an academic conference some time and start some arguments. There are some excellent scholars on Norse exploration. Sooner or later I think one of them will look at the bigger picture and maybe stop writing off the 'discoveries' of nails and ironwork up the St. Lawrence. But some of those academic types sure have their Sacred Cows... And get all worried about losing their tenure tracks and grants if some 'other' theory pops up.
Oh well, back to enjoying a good cigar and watching Dexter... If there is some big breakthrough someday, you can say you read about it here first.
Then again, I'm probably wrong.
Cheers,
Sirhr
The most eye opening experience of my life was realizing that the role of a “scientist” is to write grant applications that get funded. And, that any effort to “rock the boat” is counter productive to the goal of grant approval.
It goes against intuition, but “paradigm shifts” must be proven BEFORE they are funded…
Yup… and they laughed at Alvarez and his meteor theory. They laughed at Werner who was right about plate tectonics. And they laughed at Anne Ingstad who discovered L’Anse Aux Meadows along the her husband.
Her book (actually her daughter’s book) is really brilliant. Discovery took place in the 60’s and they had to find it all themselves and rent a clunky boat. But they did it. Book is totally worth the read!!!
And totally changed the narrative about the discovery of the Americas.
What they laugh at today becomes old hat in the future.
Sirhr
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