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Old 03-18-2008, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC
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I'd like to try muktuk. Does it have its own flavor or is it dipped in a sauce?
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Barrow, Alaska
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Default Eskimo Food

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I'd like to try muktuk. Does it have its own flavor or is it dipped in a sauce?
Oh, there's a lot of ways to eat it!!! (Same with seal oil, btw.)

Most of it is probably eaten just straight. Slice off a piece and chew on it. If the slice includes an area that was been exposed to the air for long, it will have developed a bit of a "fishy" taste. If you get a piece that was unexposed on all sides, it won't have any "fishy" taste at all. The blubber is not just fat. It is crunchy stuff, and some people say it tastes like cheshnuts. The skin, I swear, tastes very much like a relatively rare beef rib steak!

That's bowhead muktuk. Don't accept substitutes... (beluga is okay, but grey whales aren't anything like as good as a bowhead).

Hmmm... on the other hand, if you ever get a chance to try muktuk from a walrus! Wow, that stuff is to die for! It has a sweat taste that just makes your fingers crawl back into the bowl and grab one more piece, and then one more, and then... until there ain't no more.
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC
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I've had the occasion to eat jellyfish at a local restaurant & its strange stuff. Its very soft but it crunches! It tastes really good. My wife thinks I'm crazy.
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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I've had the occasion to eat jellyfish at a local restaurant & its strange stuff. Its very soft but it crunches! It tastes really good. My wife thinks I'm crazy.
Heck "I" think your crazy! Jellyfish? Does it even have flavor?
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Heck "I" think your crazy! Jellyfish? Does it even have flavor?
No not really. The restaurant puts a slightly sweet vinegar sauce on it & gives me a bowl of red chilis. Those really wake it up but the aftermath isn't pretty.
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Old 03-18-2008, 06:15 PM
 
Location: Barrow, Alaska
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Heck "I" think your crazy! Jellyfish? Does it even have flavor?
I'd never heard of eating jellyfish, until 6-7 years ago...

One beautiful July afternoon a lovely local Korean lady was strolling along the beach hand in hand with dear old me... when she saw a !@#$%^&* jellyfish!

You wouldn't believe it. End of Romance! She rushed off to find a five gallon pail. She called other Koreans. In half an hour, except for the two cabs driven by Thai drivers, it was impossible to get a cab in Barrow because every Korean who could was out walking up and down the beach looking for jellyfish!

It was actually fairly hilarious; but the odd thing is that I haven't seen nor heard of even one Korean collecting jellyfish since. But they sure had a feast that day. (Koreans own almost all of the restaurants in Barrow, so most of the jellyfish collected that day were prepared and served up for free by professional cooks.)
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Old 03-18-2008, 06:41 PM
 
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Default Question about AK foods...

So, how many licks does it take to get to the center of an Eskimo pie?
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Old 03-20-2008, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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Great reading!

I do have a question.

How often to Alaskans have their serum cholesterol/lipids checked, and what are the average results?
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Old 03-29-2008, 01:51 AM
 
Location: Haines, AK
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Default cholesterol checks

Sure, folks up here get cholesterol checks just like everwhere else. Just take the blood sample, centerfuge it, and pour the oil off the top. Measured in tablespoons, it shouldn't be more than about fifty or sixty percent of total blood volume. This is of course unless you're been at the shrimp again, in which case you have to heat the blood sample in a saucepan for a few minutes first to boil the lumps out.
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