"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important." - Eugene McCarthy

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Seal meat is black and stringy (the fibres are very evident, even though it was presumably stewed in curry for quite a while), and also somewhat sweet.

I think I preferred tarantula. Perhaps the curry overwhelmed the flavour of the supposedly delicate meat; it is spicier than normal Jap curry, yet has a certain heaviness about it that presumably comes from the seal meat.

Hopefully the bear will taste better.

"A small amount of game goes a long way. This is meat with an intense flavor and little or no fat. Seal has the texture of steak and tastes like mild beef liver. It's not bad fried with onions, grinds up nicely for meat balls to simmer in a spicy tomato sauce, and holds its shape in a basic Iles de la Madelaine four root (onions, carrots, potatoes, and turnip) stew. " (montrealfood.com: Off the Back Burner)

Maybe I should've bought the meat in the boxes and prepared it more suitably, but then it would probably have been treated in some way too. Much easier to just open a can of curry.