James Harkin

So they would use a mincing knife for that.

And they had all sorts of specialized cutlery on these whaling ships.

So as well as a mincing knife, they had a cutting spade.

They had a head spade.

They had a chopper.

They had a boarding knife.

which you would grab onto your bit of whale because you're doing all this stuff in the water, right?

You can't get the whale and put it onto your boat.

It's way too big.

So your whale is on the side of the boat.

Yeah, of course.

Whales are so enormous.

You can't get a ship that big until very, very recently.

So yeah, you would have your body knife where you would kind of skewer a bit of meat and then throw it onto the deck so that they can put it into the pot.

uh skimmer which you would just endless cutlery drawer on these shows you know what this is the first time i think that i've listed a load of cutlery on this show and you've not been excited i know i know do you ever have a dinner party where you've provided too many guests that you run out of your main cutlery you have to improvise give them a knife you won't notice excuse me is this grapefruit fork or is it a cutting spade

During the war, they tried to get the British to eat whales, didn't they?

And everyone thinks it's utterly disgusting whales.

whale meat is just not tasty if you live in the far north and you don't have any other option then maybe you might eat it but otherwise like the whalers they wouldn't eat it they would catch a whale and they'd have shit tons of this meat like whales are big you could feed your sailors for months and months and months but they'd rather not eat it and they just rather eat their biscuits and stuff i'll just i'll have the green salad is that all right would you guys try it

When I was in Iceland, I did consider having it, but I decided against it at the last minute and ordered the puffin instead.

The puffin was not good, no.