Cooked whale meat, we discovered, had the consistency of tuna tartare and a slightly gamy flavor.

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"I don't think any kid will eat whale meat, " says 11-year-old skateboarder Sindri Svensson, whose father enjoys it.

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Though Dave lives in Tokyo, and though whale meat is available at a nearby supermarket, he'd never tried it.

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According to the Japan Whaling Association, whale meat accounted for 48% of Japanese meat consumption in the 1960s (it was included in school lunches until 1985).

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In 1981, he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet food-processing facility that was converting illegally harvested whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm.

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Young people with whom I chatted in Ulsan believe that whale meat is an older person's dish, a taste forged in the harsh after-flames of World War II.

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Raw whale-meat bacon (a.k.a. blubber) was white, hard to swallow and tasted like pork fat injected with cod-liver oil.

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