Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      although I couldn’t get it to accept whale.

      Seriously? I get this is a New Zealand site but like, whale is a normal meat in some places, way more normal than like fugu or something. I could go right now to the local grocery store and pick up a whale steak if I wanted to. It’d be cheaper than a normal beef steak too. Why would they blacklist a meat that’s actually eaten in some places?

      Anyways the best way to eat whale is to treat it like a tuna steak - little bit of oil and pepper and barely cook it on each side. Traditionally though you like turn it into stroganoff.

      Quick update - it won’t accept whale but it will accept hval (whale in Norwegian) so enjoy this…“Recipe”

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 year ago

              What other ones? That’s the one you can buy in the supermarket

              Are you saying we shouldn’t eat the entire cetacea family just because sperm whales are endangered?;

              • @[email protected]
                1•1 year ago

                I’m not asserting anything, I’m asking you a question. I have no skin in this game or underlying point; I’m asking you because you claim you’re from the area and I want to know more. So:

                That’s really the only kind of whale you eat? What about the other kinds you hunt, or used to hunt?

                • @[email protected]English
                  2•1 year ago

                  I’m not really an expert on this, I just know that the ingredients list on a pack of whale lists Balaenoptera acutorostrata as it’s species and I’ve never seen any other species for sale. We’ve been hunting these guys for a millenia and ever since I think the mid 20th century it’s the only species hunted, mainly because that’s simply what’s native to Norway.

                  As for why? Norway’s been a pretty poor country for most of its existence and any reliable source of food is a welcome one, and it’s not like whale’s the worst thing to eat. This was never a profit thing like the more sterotypical American whaling industry, it’s first and foremost a food one.

                  • @[email protected]
                    1•1 year ago

                    Huh. I must confess, as a American I know all of jack and shit about whaling and such given we don’t eat whale like that over here. Not even our ruling class eats whale.

                    …What does whale taste like?