WHALE MEAT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6443, 7 November 1947, Page 4

WHALE MEAT

USE IN BRITAIN SAID TO BE RICH IN CALORIES When people tell you they have not tasted whale meat it is better to accept the assurance with reserve, writes a London correspondent. I have not knowingly sampled the food though I am told that it makes very palatable fare when properly prepared in the kitchen. A chef warns mb, however, that it is now being served in many restaurants under all manner of disguises. It makes its appearance, he tells me, in the form of rissole and even in camouflaged meat pies. There is no warning of this. in the menu, and though it savours somewhat of selling things under false pretences there seems to be no contravention of the law. The interesting thing is that whale meat so prepared is sufficiently tasty for the ordinary diner-out to denote no difference. Whale meat is said, moreover, to be rich in calories, the very name of which has become anathema to thousands of undernourished folk in Western Germany.