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Dec 04 2007 3 Comments

Japanese feline-based fodder?

With one Japanese purveyor of packed lunches now offering whale curry, and the nation’s newly expanded ‘scientific hunts’ potentially set to provide humpback burgers, public opinion outside Japan has been far from positive to say the least.

So, perhaps in a bid to make the munching of marine-based mammals seem a little less monstrous, a number of imaginative individuals have customised the popular Japanese winter dish nabe,

Japanese nabe

to cleverly accommodate cats. With the more of them in there the merrier — or indeed meatier.

Japanese nabe

Although cramming so many in can be a little laborious, especially when you need to get the lid on.

Japanese nabe

Creating a meal which arguably makes whale in curry, or even a can, seem almost palatable.

Japanese whale

Perhaps.

Categorized: Current Affairs, Food and Drink

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  1. Bunny says

    12/4/2007 at 9:21 pm

    That is wicked, Uncle Lee!

    Reply
  2. Peter says

    12/5/2007 at 1:48 am

    I’ve heard you can eat cat in Vietnam.

    And Korea is famous for eating dogs.

    Reply
  3. green peace says

    5/12/2010 at 10:49 am

    eewe kittens and whale-meat, thats gross and wrong

    Reply

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