I think the huckleberries and crisco is called "Eskimo Ice Cream" I was given some muktuk once, it consists of part whale or walrus skin and part of the inner lining of fat, so it's a kind of oreo colored, black white thing. The fat turned liquid and went right down. The meat part stayed rock hard. I had to dispense with it, and the nice eskio lady gave me a lovely smile and went right on chewing through hers, with one tooth in her head. There is a also a nice Eskimo recipe for what to do with fish heads, the title begins with the word "stinky". Song TIE IN: Stan Rogers, this genius Canadian folk song writer/ singer wrote among many great songs: "Northwest Passage" invoking the name of Sir John Franklin, who led an ill-fated expedition into northern Canada and disappeared, precipitating more expeditions to find out where his went. An apocryphal tale is that taking pity on some of his starving men, the locals (Eskimos) gave them some muktuk, whereupon the English burned the fatty part to cook the meaty part, thereby losing the caloric benefit the fat would've provided, and destroying the vitally important mite of vitamin C that was in the uncooked flesh.
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