Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Muktuk

I ate whale New Year's Eve, in the form of muktuk, which is the skin and blubber together. John-Adrian brought it from Nome.  In general you cannot buy it, you can only trade it with a Native for another subsistence food.  In his case he trades his smoked salmon for the stuff, which he loves.  "I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." I thought it was almost flavorless and tough to chew. Rubbery. His wife and daughters don't like it.

Three of the four liked Moxie when they tried it, though, so I guess we are even.

2 comments:

Ron said...

In '85 I worked for a month in Barrow, AK. Unfortunately didn't get the chance to try muktuk. Moxie, though, is good stuff!

Grim said...

That sounds awesome. I’ve recently been rereading Moby Dick, though.