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Fried whaleburger woos young Japanese customersBy Takanori Isshiki
Fri Jun 16, 8:22 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - To woo young customers more fond of burgers than traditional whale cuisine, a Japanese restaurant has come up with a new taste sensation: the fried whaleburger.
The sandwich, which features fried whale meat nestled in a bun with salad greens and lashings of mayonnaise and ketchup-based sauce, is the creation of a small whale restaurant in the town of Wada, about 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Tokyo.
"Young people think whale and bread really go together well, so the burgers are quite popular," said restaurant owner Akiji Ichihara.
For the whaleburger and a whale cutlet sandwich, both of which sell for 300 yen (1.41 pounds), he uses the meat of Baird's Beaked whales taken by Wada-based ships.
The third sandwich option, a whale hot dog priced at 350 yen, is made from minke whale meat taken by the "scientific whaling" programme run by the Japanese government.
Customers gave the sandwiches, which Ichihara serves only one day a month, good reviews. On one record day he sold 700.
"I thought whale meat was too tough to eat, but actually it's tender and very delicious," said Yuko Takahashi, 25, as she bit into a whaleburger.
Juichi Matsunaga, 38, chowed down on a whale cutlet and whale hot dog, which he also pronounced delicious.
The praise is music to the ears of Japanese policymakers, who say that eating whale is a treasured cultural tradition but find demand low among young consumers, many of whom have few chances to try the usually pricey delicacy.
Japan stopped commercial whaling in 1986 in line with an international moratorium but began what it calls "scientific whaling" a year later, arguing that endangered species need protection but others, such as the minke, are numerous enough for limited hunting.
"I think we could whale more, because the number of whales has now increased to the extent that they are damaging the ecosystem by eating too much fish," Matsunaga added.
($1=114.69 Yen)
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murderers
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WHALE MEAT!!??
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x100Originally posted by StarPuppy:murderers 
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gees.. i wun ever touch whale or dolphin meat..
so far i only eat chicken, duck, fish, pork.. -
I hate it that they use tradition as an excuse.
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I thought whaling is illegal???
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They whale under the pretense as for 'scientific studies'Originally posted by gd4u:I thought whaling is illegal??? -
Let the mercury take its toll and weed out their children from the gene pool.
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fwah!
reminds me of Eight Below where the dogs feed on a frozen whale..... -
well hey ... to be fair, we got to look at ourselves too ......
what sort of stuff lots of people have been eating in the name of "tradition" here ? ....
bird's nest anyone ? ... shark's fins ? .... sea cucumbers ? ... exotic fishies ? ...
the whales are lucky ... they have a global lobby behind them ... the same can't be said of a lot of other exotic critters eh ? ...
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let's stop eating shark's fin first
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I don't .... I haven't touch shark's fins for the last 8 years, nor bird's nest ....
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bird's nest not so bad, cos like can rear.Originally posted by Fatum:I don't .... I haven't touch shark's fins for the last 8 years, nor bird's nest ....
i did even understand what's so nice about a food that needs vinegar to taste. -
I haven't touched sharks' fin dishes in 4 years now.
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im going to eat sharks fin tonite!
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Originally posted by FireIce:im going to eat sharks fin tonite!
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GO VEGETARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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you know, another reason why I stopped touching shark's fin is because I want to have nice, cute, healthy little fatums running around in the future ....Originally posted by FireIce:im going to eat sharks fin tonite!
sharks are apex predators, all the toxins, mecury, heavy metals etc get accumulated into the body of the sharks ... in particular, the cartilage (shark's fins and bones) and the meat ....
for a while, Singapore banned the import of shark's fins from Thailand because of excessive levels of mercury ! ...
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let's just say "it's traditional to rag on and abuse Japanese people"
see how long they can keep using "tradition"
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why are the japs so obsessed with whale meat?
it must be really nice. -
Why should tradition be used as an excuse to attract young customers just to protect businesses?
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Nothing new
But they dun seem to care that the whales are going to get extinct at this rate -
They're going to put themselves out of business eventually. But I'd rather have it end NOW.
Anyway...Orginally posted by EnemySkies at GPM:
It's quite simple. Fresh on the heels of George Bush going all eco-friendly on us it dawned on me how to stop whaling.
We park war ships off the coast of the countries / islands that still believe it is ok to kill whales. We tell them quite clearly that any vessel that attempts to catch a whale will be sunk.
I think it will stop it quite quickly. We may have to lose a few fisherman but that's not going to cost me any sleep.
And it'd be a quick easy war cos japan has no military power and norway poses no threat either. Iceland and the faroe islands have a handful of harpoons.
Blair and Bush get good ratings in the polls cos they've gone all green and shit and we get to save the whales. And it's quite possibley the oinly way the USA could ever possibly make up for the HUGE numbers of whales it previuosly slaughtered.
Win-win situation. -
ya don't have to be an activist or anythin'.. just be aware and do that little bit...
like cut up 6-pack rings...
click here for the sad consequences of being an asswipe => Poor Turtle