Obviously you have never eaten the dreaded Newfanise special -Flipper pie!!! That's one delight I hope to never partake of again-ever!!!LOL
Really off topic now.
I have eaten flipper pie. Put in a request with some friends who flew home for a visit to Bell Island a couple of years ago. When you live on a big rock, your ancestors learn to eat what’s available. They brought back some frozen flippers and gave me a package and a copy of the recipe. I decided it was best to let them cook it up and get it right so we picked up some live lobsters and we had an east coast dinner. Essentially flipper pie when well prepared, to me tastes just like beef stew with lots of gravy and vegetables and homemade biscuits on top. The seal flipper meat is very dark, almost black so it looks a bit different and was not fatty. In my experience it is sometimes fat that can give you a gamey taste but that was not the case with this flipper pie. I thought it was tasty and one of the quintessential Canadian experiences, but I did enjoy the lobster a little bit more.
Now if you want to taste something different try Beaver (save the jokes). One of the wild game fund raising dinners I attend for habitat restoration usually has it, presumably from a trapper. It is certainly an unusual flavor being a giant semi-aquatic tree eating rodent.
My guess is that in another 40 years of vertical human population growth and environmental destruction, humans will be very happy indeed to be eating seals, assuming ocean acidification has not killed them all indirectly by killing off the base of the food chain.
For now, politically the only ones who could get away with harvesting Seals in BC are First Nations despite Seal populations being at "Historical Highs" because their two primary predators, Transient Killer Whale populations are down and Humans now prefer Big Macs.
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