Crossed one endangered animal off my "Let's Eat It" list

So while in the Marshall Islands and on Utrik, I have had my fair share of unusual things to eat.  The list is rather odd, and I'm pretty sure I will never be able to repeat any of the items on it (and I'm not quite sure I want to).  So I already posted about muk-a-muk (see situational starvation), and I'm pretty sure I have eaten Dory and Nemo (both taste pretty good).  And I've had my fair share of coconuts.  But on island, the main thing I remember eating most of the time is pancakes!  So during the course of a week, a normal human being eats about 21 meals (3 meals a day x 7 days in one week - in case you need evidence of my math skills), and of those 21 meals, I'm pretty sure pancakes made up about 15 or 16 of those meals.  Yep, I never will eat another pancake again for the rest of my life.  Pancakes are just tasteless dough.  (Unless Jack Johnson will make me banana pancakes and sing me his song at the same time, then I think I would be obligated to eat another pancake).

So while we are eating pancakes, there are some things you can put on the pancake.  My personal favorite is when my parents would send me peanut butter (holy cow - I just want to thank you so much for all the care packages, and because of those, I have learned how to efficiently and effectively eat an entire bag of M&Ms in one day).  So peanut butter and pancakes are very tasty.  But before you know it, the jar of peanut butter is gone in one day (sometimes 2 or 3 if we managed to stretch it out by not eating or making pancakes).  So what makes a good substitute?  MAYONNAISE!!!  Yes that's right, white lard/fat/chemicals that often is added to sandwiches to a slightly better taste.  So now pancakes and mayonnaise taste good.  "But wait," you ask yourself as you are reading this, "doesn't mayonnaise need to be refrigerated? Didn't I learn in my middle school Home Economics class that if mayonnaise isn't refrigerated (or if I am going on a picnic and I made potato salad and left it out the whole night) then therefore everyone is going to get food poisoning?"

NO!!!  I ate that unrefrigerated mayonnaise all the time and did not get sick.  So therefore I am going to assume that all health food exports are liars and don't know what they are talking about.

On the plus side, I discovered how to make a pancake taco.  Take a pancake, add some rice in the center (to be more authentic, have the rice be left over rice from the night before) and then add some mayonnaise.  If you have fish or spam, please add it, otherwise the taco will be okay without it.  And Enjoy!  Its the closest thing to a taco I could come up with...

And for a random fact - dog tastes good.  Actually, very good.  I would totally eat that again.

And now for the reference to the title of this particular blog - what endangered animal did I eat?  Sea turtle!  And I have to say, it is such a weird taste.  It has the taste of fish, but the consistency of something I don't know how to describe.  It was incredibly chewy - like the type of chewy where you chew, and chew, and chew, but what is in your mouth hasn't changed shaped and you are not sure if you can swallow or not.  Yep - its exactly like that.  And now sea turtle isn't on my list of favorite foods.

But you can enjoy the pictures of some people preparing a sea turtle (a rather large one).