| A sure reminder that spring is upon us is the arrival of naked moonbats and international recognition of the fifth annual Eat an animal for PETA day. Since they also take this day to remind the world that we Canucks like to club seals for fun and profit, it’s a fine day to promote that traditional Newfoundland fare of Seal Flipper pie. In case you can’t pop in to Belbin’s Grocery in St. John’s and pick up a ready-to-bake one for $8.99, we present a traditional recipe for the club-it-yourselfer: |  |
Ingredients:
# 4 seal flippers (don’t forget to club at least two seals!)
# 1 L water
# 500 ml soda
# 125 ml fat pork, diced
# 1 cup milk
# 2 onions, chopped
# 5 ml salt
# 60 ml flour
# 250 ml cold water
# 5 ml Worcestershire sauceDirections:
Soak flippers in 1 L of water and soda. Trim off excess fat.
Dry flippers and dip in seasoned flour.
Brown in pork fat. Add onions and make a gravy of flour, water, and sauce. Pour over flippers.
Cover and bake at 350 degrees F for 2-3 hours.
Make a pastry and cover the flippers. Bake at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes.
Hmmm. Actually, no. These overgrown maritime rats taste like rancid cod entrails. Given the choice, I’d take the cod entrails. This is one of those cases where the clubbin’s better than the eatin’.
But that’s no reason to pass on up on that wholesome tradition and the satisfying sound of crushing their skulls with a blunt club.
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These rats may taste awful but they make warm and waterproof boots, as well as attractive handbags. |  |
Good luck with the hunt in Newfoundland! You know we wish we could join in the fun.
Footnote from Kate: I second the motion.
All your gophers are belong to us ???….
Put enough curry on it and I would eat anything. Even a Cindy Sheehan/Rosie O’Donnell hybrid. UMMMM curry!!!
Why do you insist on being consistently stupid on this one issue?
Posted by: voice_of_reason
Only one? Aside from… how did you put that?
oh yeah,
“beyond your perpetually unnatural obsessions with happenings in America”.
You must be blind or mistaken us for bbc or some of the leftist european press.
To think that we need to be shamed for staying informed about the US, our neighbours, peacefully now for about two hundred years, who’s economic health is vital to us, (90% economic dependency, hello?) and not focus on such an emotive media hot button issue is your problem, not ours.
Get a real topic to get all emotional about and stop bothering the adults, as you can see it just invites other sanctimonious tools.
kelly,
Just joking also … but Sask does have prime beaver.
Kevin Jaeger –
I thought I made myself clear. I have no problem with subsistence harvests for food. God help those people who depend on food obtained that way today. Do you?
From your url: “hunters in Nunavik surpass the quota because their families need the food to survive. Inuit have hunted belugas whale for centuries, and follow their own principle of conservation, without government regulation.
“We never kill more than we need,” Novalinga said. “It’s our rule. It’s sacred to every living species. There’s a time to catch one species and then the next.”
Mindless bludgeoning of hundreds of thousands of juvenile members of a species is not the same.
Do you agree?
my word, it appears the “voice of reason” has something to say. we stupidly bloodthirsty canuckleheads should all just sit down, shut up and pay attention.
I don’t believe the gall!
you are right about fishing fleets, add that to the unharvested seals=no fish! I have too much respect for this site to swear at you but your ears should be burnin
> peacefully now for about two hundred years,
Minor distraction: War of 1812, anyone? British army burning the White House, and all that?
> such an emotive media hot button issue is your problem, not ours.
No, it’s YOUR problem. A CANADIAN problem. Really.
> stop bothering the adults
Piss off, ass.
Would voice_of_reason care to comment on millions of
“juvenile members of a species” that have been killed because of the ban of DDT?
heh heh, looks like the ‘hot button’ was right where I expected it.
Name calling and cursing, no less! ROFL
oh well, can’t reason with someone who isn’t reasonalbe in the first place.
And um, yeah 1812 IS almost 200 years ago, I mean really, so lets quibble and forget the main point k?
Not.
Ural –
Curious question: what species are you concerned with this time?
In Africa, the DDT ban has had a great affect on the lifestyle, quality, and longitivity of certain villagers in seasonally moist areas.
So did the introduction of low cost mosquito nets (sleeping tents) for most of those same populations.
Can you clarify your question?
> heh heh, looks like the ‘hot button’ was right where I expected it.
Jeering at yourself, at this point, and not displaying any intelligence. This is Kate’s blog. Let her make the points she wants to defend, eh?
My point is on this ONE topic, Canadians are completely irrational.
You are simply proving that point.
DDT is a absolutely necessary to my sealskin pie. otherwise it just wouldn’t be the same
voice of reason..you have shit for brains, you’re probably very youngish and still live at moms house. an idealist and anyone that disagrees with you is wrong. that’s fine.
you seem to have a fixation on Canadians though, why?
Well you’ll just have to remain disappointed there vor, oh, and guess what? I’m not responsible for your explosive, accusatory, overwrought and emotional outbursts, you are.
Don’t like my replies, then don’t respond to them and if Kate doesn’t want me here, she has control of a button as well. So far I’m still standing. :~)
Seal hunting is a long standing tradition of our first nations people and currently an income for families. Go and clean up the messes in your own backyard before you come and start on mine k?
kelly, idd – wrong on so many points.
My point is on this ONE topic, Canadians are completely irrational.
You are simply proving that point.
voice of reason, how many babies were aborted last year. Bet it was more than taken in the seal hunt. Gee, has it been a year since Heather and Paul made fools of themselves. Hope Bardot stays in France this year. And, I wonder how many of the PETA, Greenpeace, and other protestors have marched in pro abortion rallies.
Okay, I can get everything on the list except the seal flippers. Would moonbat wings/guts/brains be acceptable substitutes?
“My point is on this ONE topic, Canadians are completely irrational.”
Really? Well I see it as we’re such reasonable people on this one point then. I’m proud we don’t give into the hyperbowl BS of ‘cruelty’ as a measure of our sensibilities where sealing is concerned. Been played out here for decades now. Same ‘ol same ‘ol…
BTW the seal meat is fed to foxes, should give you some comfort.
there’s moonbats at large, it’s Friday night Mary T. and I believe we were talking about flipper pies…before we were so rudely interrupted
VOR said: “The ocean food chain is being altered, for all sorts of reasons.”
Yeah . . . the rest of us call it a population graph.
It’s simple really. More seals == less fish. Fish taste better than seal, sorta like how beef tastes better than legumes.
Despite the protein differentials vs. land use people prefer beef. Go figure. People prefer cod to seal, go figure.
Fish are more important than seals, crops are more important than monkeys, ergo monkeys and seals die.
C’est la vie, mais pas la fin de la vie.
Cheers,
lance
Hey if sealing is putting food (groceries) on people’s table and helping keep a roof over their heads……..
Keep on clubbing.
mary T. – I have no idea where your thought processes are coming from. Good luck with finding a rational relationship to your blurt and this thread. I have none to offer.
idd: “hyperbowl BS”
I’m sorry, ill-educated confused-canuck is not my native tongue. Do you mean “hyperbole”, as in “simile or a metaphor”? This is exactly what I’m trying to bring to the attention of your collectively limited intellect.
If the “humans” swinging the clubs involved in the juvenile seal “harvest” can understand (let alone spell) “hyperbole”, then maybe there is hope for further discussion sometime in the future.
You must have a lot of very fat foxes, since all those hundreds of thousands of seals are carefully kept for their meat (the seal fur is increasingly not salable to other parts of the world, y’know). You breed these foxes like minks, on farms, for their furs, I assume?
lance, that made no sense at all, crops are more important than monkeys
ergo crops and monkeys have no ralation whatsoever
Oh, hell. Those speaking up the most are not too bright. Let’s just let things degrade to the typical level of the illiterates:
Save a seal. Club a Canuck.
club a canuck, save a seal?!?
funny that those you laugh at are the most serious. watch your back little buddy.,,we’ll be meetin in the cyber world.
Hey Voice does nothing living die so you live? If so how are you any better than someone bypassing the middle man to do the same thing?
Club seals, dogs, cats or cows…..
We’re top of the food chain…
Mother Nature put us there…
VOR.. deal with it….
Some of you guys need to GET A SENSE OF HUMOR!!!!!
Jaeger’s post was obviously a little black joke. Gawd….
Mugs – Yet another shining canadian intellect! Are you unable to scroll up? Or do you just insert random posts without reading?
> I eat fish, beef, lamb, pork, venison, elk, antelope, rabbit, chicken, duck, goose, and an occasional tubesteak. I love sausages, and know how they’re made. I really ask you to look at yourselves, and try to answer:
Why do you insist on being consistently stupid on this one issue?
Posted by: voice_of_reason at March 17, 2007 12:17 AM
won’t you please be my neighbour
Friday night party at Kate’s! Well, since I’m a bit late in from the club (tee hee), I’d just like to note that the whole problem with flipper pie is the lack of a good strong cheese. Montgomery Cheddar, Shropshire Blue, Appenzeller, Colston Basset Stilton, Le Merichal, any of those would do just fine at mitigating the negative tastes involved with the eating of carnivores, as us omnivores are wont to do. Toodles 😉
Yeesh, VOR. You’re being toyed with…don’t take it all so seriously.
As a point of order though, I am a Canadian and I don’t really care about whether the seal hunt continues or not…so I’m not irrational about “this one issue”…don’t make such general statements about Canadians.
What I DO care about is the OUTRAGEOUS HYPOCRISY of the anti-seal industry protesters. If the little critters looked like walruses, there would be ABSOLUTELY NO OUTCRY! They protest because they’re PRETTY!
Even you have no qualms about killing animals (for food at least)…so why do you worry about killing the pretty ones? Killing is killing is killing is killing…be they ugly or pretty.
To surrender to the protesters on this issue is to surrender to stupidity and hypocrisy…and I will fight to my last breath to stop stupidity and hypocrisy from winning the hearts and minds of Canadians! Therefore, I support the seal hunt simply out of spite for the stupidity of the protesters!
Rather than making a teary protest over the killing of these pretty critters, if they appeal on the basis of rationality and practicality, then I’ll take them seriously…until then, club on boys!
John, this post was all about black humour…lighten up and don’t be so PC.
And finally…even when the PETA chicks go naked, aren’t they still wearing “fur”? Or do they wax?
Chicken…pastured…yum!
From what I understand, seals aren’t on the endangered species list, with hundreds of thousands popping out every year.
Yet Peta and this so-called ‘voice-of-reason’ allowed the last Black Rhino to become extinct almost two years ago, without a whimper, let alone a naked, jiggly protest.
speaking on behalf of all the right wing, animal loving agnostics on this site (me), this discussion only re-inforces the fact that there are people ,(and I use that term loosely) in our midst whose callous disregagrd and respect for life places them in the same league with those who destroyed the World Trade Centre…..not an enviable position….
Yup – pretty much what I expected. (see yesterday’s 9:13 PM comment). Jaeger leaves a reeking red herring in the lemming path, and inevitably the whole place begins to stink.
People – there is a difference between a senseless orgy of slaughter for pleasure, and subsistence livelihood by people unwilling to find a more lucrative trade. Debate the central point, you silly twits!
As for Kate’s lovely little (dead) mascot – vermin should be culled, and being right pleased with the job is no bad thing.
So, picking up my .17 calibre and continuing: the syncopated silliness spilling from some of these posts is a education in how to polarize an issue. Y’all ought to be radio talk show hosts, or lawyers.
Guess what? Some of you may end up seeing your less thoughtful comments given wider circulation in the captive media: “Staunch conservative supporter brags about crunching skulls”. There’s a REASON most conservatives are considered boring: It’s dangerous to be provocative, and to use all these nice little literary techniques … because most people just don’t get it and get hung up on the emotion. Kate, God bless her, has a fine sense of the ironic and the wit to deliver it just right (and Kathy Shaidle’s got the benefit of Damascus).
Ladies and Laddies – keep your powder dry and don’t pass ammo to the enemy…
this country was built on the fur trade so…let’s get the annual ice euchre tournament started, as in other years Clubs are trump.
allowed the last Black Rhino to become extinct almost two years ago”
lovely.
a wonderful, massive and very noble beast that has existed 50 million years is now gone.
without a whimper from sir paul et al.
what does that tell you about peta etc?
besides which, what is the market these days for sealskin products and seal meat?
is the invisible hand of demand and supply going to see the skull crunching clubs used as firewood when no one will buy the fluffy white sealskins?
I don’t get it. Kate loves her dogs, but clubbing a seal to death…well that’s just fine and dandy. Let’s even make fun of it, shall we?
It would seem hypocrisy in this debate is everywhere.
Dogs are pets. People keep them as companions.
Seals are stinky water rodents, which no one need apologize for killing for their pelts. People have been doing that in North America for a long, long time. The northern part of this continent was settled entirely for the purpose of harvesting pelts, fish and other resources.
Granting the premise of sentimentality to the animals being killed is what has destroyed the market for their pelts. I think the sealers would have been much better off to just say “sod off, smelly hippies – these things make nice boots” and openly defy them. Instead they’ve tried to appease the unappeasable by no longer taking the whitecoats and making up stories about huminatarian methods, as if wild animals normally die humane deaths. That path’s been a total failure.
Yep seal meat is fed to farmed foxes, and yes they are raised for their furs, so what? We have mink farms, cattle farms, sheep farms, chicken farms, pig farms, and etc… So? Do you know how these animals are killed before the slaughter?
And the one thing I can’t stand more than gamey-tough wild meat is a non-canuk with their unreasonable belief that if we’d just behave like, well um, trained seals, then we’d be just perfect.
Besides, I still maintain that ‘hissie missie’s’ should look at the messes in their own backyards before they dictate how others should run theirs.
Do I smell leftie tracks or is that the seal flipper burning?
Damn!
In my opinion, the world could use more good looking Women in the nude.
I may be a pig, but I am a diserning one . (O:}
I was busy reading Simon Bond’s Complete Uses For A Dead Cat”, so haven’t watched this “discussion”.
But really, people. Take a pill.
As for the comment about my dogs, it’s ironic that half the people who will scream bloody murder over the clubbing of seals will go to a pet store to buy a puppy without thinking twice about it.
Thereby rewarding the millers who take used-up bitches out of the cages they’ve lived in their entire lives, and club them to death behind the shed.
If you cannot recognize that over-the-top comments like Kevin’s used in this post are common devices to make a broader point, (think Daily Show, Anne Coulter) then you’ve led a very sheltered life.
Now get over it. Nobody here purports to “speak for conservativism” or promises never to offend. The day you believe I have a responsibility to do either is the day the site goes permanently black.
Deflecting hunting pressure on seals in this manner just increases pressure on the beaver.
The little ‘hypocrisy’ card is pulled again.
I dunno…I thought the thread was a silly mockery of the extremers running around naked trying to impress their principle on fully clothed others.
Sorta like the ‘friends of fur’ want to impress Southern Ontario by sending bears back to their southern habitat…funny, but they will keep their clothes on.
Personally, I do chickens with an axe, and I have found that the sharper it is, the easier the job gets, but the blood still flies. My dog just loves that time of year. Seals, of course, have no neck – the narrowest part of their body is at the brain…and they have much more blood than a chicken. Clubbing is best.
And, Kate, most people HAVE led a very sheltered life. That is why mocking certain things needs some degree of skill . Jaeger was near perfect, except for that one “red flag” comment.
Seals? We must all respect the innocent vegetables! Join PERV!
People for the Ethical Regard of Vegetables
• How would you like to be separated from your nether regions, plunged into a boiling cauldron of oil or water and then eaten?
• How would you like to have your genitalia cut off and used to decorate churches, houses and the bosoms of human females?
• How would you like to have your unborn children put in a mill and ground up over the corpses of related species?
• How would you like to have your head cut off so that people can play golf, soccer and football on you?
• And it’s a matter of your own health. Do you realise that leguminous vegetables such as peas and beans fix deadly nitrogen from the air, which could give you cancer?
Act now! Send a large cheque to the Number Watch Cayman Island account to become a member of PERV. In return, you will receive a free catalogue of synthetised proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and fibre (no fat, of course) with price list. Leave the flowers where they are in the field. You know it makes scents.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2002%20February.htm
The Naked Truth: If they weren’t cute nobody would care.
Sorry folks, Kate included. You cannot have it both ways.
You cannot claim that your dog is important, so important that you would drive half way around the continent to enter it in a competition, and then mock those who say the seals are important.
I’m not picking sides here. I’m just saying you are hypocrites.
Fact of the matter is that most normal, decent people do respect animal life. In fact, studies have shown many times that boys who are particularly violent toward animals when they are young often end up as rather nasty men as adults.
I’m not sure why some posters feel it is necessary to glorify cruelty to animals to make their point that seal hunt protests are wrong.