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Thread #59287   Message #944927
Posted By: gnu
02-May-03 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Newfoundland seal hunt..good article
Subject: RE: BS: The Newfoundland seal hunt..good article
I may even be tempted to try seal again. The first time I ever had seal was in Makkovik, Labrador at Susie's Hotel (Susie Anderson - I think it was Susie. I'm sure it was Anderson because the phone book had 52 Andersons, a couple of other European names and about ten native names.) We were surveying for and supervising the building of an airstrip and boarding in a trailer owned by Susy, taking our meals in the Anderson's kitchen. We had seal for supper the first night, seal for breakfast, lunch and supper the next two days, and seal for the following breakfast. At lunch, I asked if there was anythging else on the go and she fed me caribou stew but there wasn't any meat in it, just caribou fat. I then made arrangements to take our meals with the contractor's crew. I've only had one feed of caribou since, just to be polite, and I really don't know if I could swallow seal ever again... maybe one of the little cute ones, if it was named Bridgitte.