[Closed] Would you eat dolphin?

Meh, will probably taste like chicken.

Dunno. I tried a zebra steak once and the missus didn't speak to me for the rest of the evening.

Result

Meh, will probably taste like [s]chicken[/s] cat.

Only if it was tuna-friendly

No. No logical reason to do so.

What if it was a really stupid dolphin?

If it was cooked well aye. Wouldn't eat a ready meal version.

Intelligent food for intelligent people 😉

I reckon a dolphin would eat me if it was hungry so I'd reciprocate if the need arose, but not as a choice from a menu.

When I was at uni, before the chain poundlands and the like, the local pound shop sold non dolphin friendly tuna, think it was 6 or 8 tins for a pound. It definitely didn't taste like normal tuna, bit there were probably a number of factors at play there.

I've never understood why you'd eat tuna but not dolphin.

If its anything like swordfish then yes definitely yes .

anything like swordfish

Doh , but I still would .

I've never understood why you'd eat tuna but not dolphin

A dolphin's got personality.

yes.. bet it's yummy

any meat eater would be a bit deluded and hypocritical to turn their nose up at it

I saw it on a menu in the American Deep South, somewhere along the Gulf Coast. Would have tried it but it was on the dinner menu & the portions were so big we were eating off the lunch menu!
Always regretted not trying it..

No. No logical reason to do so.

Yes. There is no logical reason not to do so.

If your prepared to eat one dead animal then why draw a line at dolphins.

We should fish them sustainably - like we should some species of whales too.

I'm a meat eater but draw the line at whales and Dolphins, and I guess apes and monkeys too. My, probably highly flawed, logic is that they have the intelligence to comprehend and understand what's going on around them so you can't kill them humanely. I'm all for eating meat, but I do try as best as reasonably possible to only eat meat that's been well looked after and humanely slaughtered. I don't believe you could ever do that with Dolphins. Cattle and fish don't have that level of intelligence and can be easily fooled and slaughtered without stressing them, they act more on instinct.

Having said that I love octopus and squid and they are supposed to be pretty darn clever.

Would you eat dolphin?

No. I only eat fish.

Smells like fish.. tastes like chicken!!

whale is quite nice and eat it fairly regularly

never had dolphin though

had seal lasagne - was ok

Yes, and have done, along with Osprey and Swan

A part of the above is made up 🙂

My mum ate a dolphin steak on holiday once.
Can't say I was that impressed when she told me.
I suppose it depends whether they actually fished for them or whether they just use the ones which are caught up in fishing nets 'accidentally' ?

You all have without knowing...

Sustainably farmed, not a problem with it from me.

wobbliscott - Member
I'm a meat eater but draw the line at whales and Dolphins, and I guess apes and monkeys too. My, probably highly flawed, logic is that they have the intelligence to comprehend and understand what's going on around them so you can't kill them humanely...

You could include pigs in that category IMO.

Dolphin on menus in southern American states is actually a fish caled a Mahi Mahi.

We should fish them sustainably - like we should some species of whales too.

Fish for dolphin? Do we dolphin for fish?

I'm sold by epicyclo.

I'll eat anything tasty and pigs are proper tasty.

I eaten dolphin many times in the Caribbean and S America.
Of course what they call dolphin on the menu is actually Mahi-Mahi.
So no mammal. No Flipper.

I don't eat big fish. i.e. nothing bigger than 36 inches long - usually much smaller than that.

I don't eat grouper and I will avoid catfish.

No. I try not to eat too much meat and try and keep to free range locally farmed stuff. We're a bit far from the coast here...

Besides that, the conservation issues and intelligence, they grow quite old. Old enough to be accumulating mercury and other nasties.

Old enough to be accumulating mercury and other nasties.

A bit like Tuna, Marlin, Shark etc

If mahi mahi IS dolphin. I've already ate dolphin. I'll break the bad news to Mrs aa in the morning.

This is one of those 'you learn something new everyday' moments.

EDIT. Wiki says its not dolphin, but dolphinfish..

geoffj - Member

Old enough to be accumulating mercury and other nasties.

A bit like Tuna, Marlin, Shark etc

Really not sure why people really like eating these fish because eating them is like eating some rough dry meat. 😯

Yep.

Would I eat dolphin?

Not on porpoise.

only if I couldn't get whale.

Dolphin on menus in southern American states is actually a fish caled a Mahi Mahi

I eould suggest watching the documentary "the cove" full version on you tube and then make a decision about dolphin.

Just to really get this thread going.......
What about a halal dolphin?

en well looked after and humanely slaughtered. I don't believe you could ever do that with Dolphins. Cattle and fish don't have that level of intelligence and can be easily fooled and slaughtered without stressing them, they act more on instinct.

Just dealing with cattle - I've worked with cattle in the UK and have most often observed obvious stress while handling, especially at markets or in the crush - eyes rolling, tongues lolling, vocalizing, drooling. Many places have poor flooring so the cattle slip and then their cortisol levels really go through the roof. Even adopting Temple Grandin's humane handling machinery and recommendations for practice (and I have a lot of respect for the work she does) there is room for error. Farmers most often have a quota they want to fill and sometimes the last thing on their mind is buying new machinery or facilities. As for error - stun bolts misfire, the skull too thick, a slip, the scent of blood sets off the other cattle, blinking means they weren't stunned correctly, head brace malfunction or not present, etc, etc. Handling machinery - some of the stuff I've seen is rusty, decades old, archaic, rough edges, unsafe etc. If cows are typified as placid, they often aren't placid when handled. Sheep neither. They urinate and defecate liquid stress when handled in a concrete pen, this turns to slips and falls, lameness, annoyed and overworked farmers and labourers, cut corners, etc...

As such, I don't accept that it's 'easy' to keep cattle de-stressed in any commercial operation. I used to, but then I worked with cattle. I have enough trouble keeping pork scratchings on the menu having known how smart pigs are, and how most of them end up. Beef also - rapidly becoming a more expensive once in a while purchase from known local sources. Not a bad thing, both healthwise and ethically?

i wouldn't eat whales or dolphins period.

i wouldn't eat whales or dolphins period.

well no. It'd be a drink, if anything.

I'd probably do the Christmas thing and have a tuna inside a dolphin inside a whale.

^^^ made me laugh

never really understood the meat eaters reluctance to eat certain types of meat tbh

This could be a new thing at Sea World - acrobatics show followed by Meat the Star BBQ.

never really understood the meat eaters reluctance to eat certain types of meat tbh

I draw the line at certain types of people.

Isn't the real reason that we don't eat dolphin that they are hard to catch (or at least were historically) and don't taste nice enough to be worth the effort.

All of this line drawing and self justification is just trying to justify something as rational when infact its just a cultural norm based on historic practicalities.