My dear Friend:
As with everything in life, making a Duck and Whalemeat pie is a matter of balance. Back in the days when our Bretherin sailed the world for oil and blood, well, there where a lot more Whales and a lot more Ducks. Now, I don't think the idea was to get the ratio of Duck to Whale right by using enough Ducks to equal one Whale, rather, I think one made Whale meat hamburgers, sausage, hotdogs, shoes and with a little of what was left one made a pie with a Duck or two.
And, further, in balance, I don't think in the days we hunted the leviathan, there were as many tree huggers. So, we would have to emaine that these Duck and Whale eating Quakers, as well as the strongly objecting Environmentalist Veegans, and hungery High Jackers all where on the airoplane in, say, 1856.
Now, in that year, there would have been a great deal of trouble to find a place to take off and land, and should they have gotten the plane up off the ground, which no doubt they could have, as there was a lot of kerosine to fly with, or Whale oil for that matter, well, the next challenge for the Highjakcers, after finishing their pie, is to stay airbourne, at least into the 1970's, when the WTC was completed and up long enough to become part of the New York patrimony and worth attacking. Further, no doubt, other things would have been actively being discussed, such as Slavery and other controversies of the day. One would have to ask, what if there were runaway slaves on the flight, wouldn't one? Then, if a runaway slave was safely at 35,000 feet up, does the Dred Scott decision apply, is the fellow no longer a slave, and would he object to Duck and Whalemeat pie, or concider it a real treat after the horrors of slavery?
I think thee speaks my mind, I will stick with the Peace Testimony and leave the creation of nonsensical hypotheticals to the draftboard, who wanted to know if I would fight is the US was to be attacked by Martians. To which I answered, No, I would just get in my time machine and keep jumping back to the day before they arrived.
Peace and responcible culinary delights,
Larry