Why Did We “Save the Whales”?

It’s more complicated than you think

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“Whale Carpaccio — 130 Kroner.”

Thus read an appetizer on a menu at a restaurant in Bergen, Norway, when I dined there a few years back. I wanted to sample this odd dish. What would the experience be like? Would the meat be chewy like pork, or flaky like fish?