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A whale roast is really good.

I'd be willing to try it. Any description for the taste? And don't say chicken. :sneaky:

This is one whale I'd helped butcher when I was a kid in AK.

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That looks like a hell of a slippery mess.
 
The people who fly these should expect to pay farmers fair value for any crops they damage during landing and recovery. And farmers should make reasonable accommodations to let them get their stuff.

I was talking to the land owner this morning. The balloon operator still gives out the customary bottle of champagne.
 
I haven't seen a lot of Seinfeld, but I've seen this one.
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That second picture is so similar to my friends and me hitting various damaged balls into Lake Erie, except we were at the top of the bank about 75 ft above the beach. It might be why I believe that to be the best episode ever.
 
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I'd be willing to try it. Any description for the taste? And don't say chicken. :sneaky:

The Muktuk can be prepared many different ways. Boiled, fried, baked, pickled or raw. It's got a salty fish taste since it's the skin. We called the raw stuff Eskimo bubble gum. You could chew on a piece for a long time.

The meat is gammie and like any animal as they age it gets tougher.
These whales weigh about 1 ton per foot. The eyes and heart and liver are all delicacies.

That looks like a hell of a slippery mess.

It came be. As they butcher the whale they'd use hay hooks on a rope and you'd pull the skin and blubber off as someone on top cut downward with a blade on a pole. The whole village shows up to help.
In the fall the whale is drug up onto the beach.
During the spring you're out on the ice. They use block and tackle to bring it up on the ice.
 
Found this in my grandparents stuff.

My uncle and grandmother, Wenatchee Wa. May or June of 67. Shes holding his Gallantry Cross w/ bronze star and Purple Heart. Not sure exactly why, but the photo was taken by The Wenatchee Daily World

Michael D Hinson, Navy medic assigned to a Marine unit. Lost his arm above the elbow and several inches from his leg. Vietnam killed him, it just took 37 more years to officially do it.

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Found this in my grandparents stuff.

My uncle and grandmother, Wenatchee Wa. May or June of 67. Shes holding his Gallantry Cross w/ bronze star and Purple Heart. Not sure exactly why, but the photo was taken by The Wenatchee Daily World

Michael D Hinson, Navy medic assigned to a Marine unit. Lost his arm above the elbow and several inches from his leg. Vietnam killed him, it just took 37 more years to officially do it.

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Agent Orange?