Y’all are too mature.

Clearly, it tastes like your mom.

So, disclaimers are needed here.

In Norway, they hunt Minke whale. The Minke whale is classed as “least concern”, which means “doing great” as far as being endangered goes. It’s the same category deer are in in the US, or pigeons everywhere.

So, obviously I tried whale meat, a few ways.

As a steak, it’s kinda like gamey beef in texture, but with a fish-adjacent flavour. Like if you shifted a steak 20% towards tuna without changing the texture.

There’s also whale bacon, which honestly tastes like pork bacon, but with the fat more in splotches than in layer.

There’s also the blubber, which I’ll simply an acquired taste. And that’s given that I’m Dutch and enjoy my pickled herring and even like lutefisk. It’s like if you filled a grapeskin with a nutty-oily, semi solid jelly substance.

I always assumed it tasted like shark?