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6 days agoMy grandfather (Japanese) asked over and over again for our family to take him to one of the few restaurants that still serve whale meat. He just wanted to eat it once more before he died (about 10 years ago). He grew up eating it all the time as he was part of a blue collar family and it was a cheap meat that everyone ate. He loved it and hadn’t had it in decades.
The family always refused and he never got to eat it again. I always felt bad for him; what Japan did in limiting whale meat consumption would be something like the US eliminating 99% of pork consumption in the matter of a few decades. Is it for the best? Absolutely. Still wish he was able to eat it one last time, though.
Yeah, I don’t want to be assimilated.