I’m on the Faroe islands right now. This isn’t exactly a climate or geology fit for large scale farming, so you’re right in that being a vegetarian would have been rough here. Even now quality veggies seem hard to find in the small villages. Everything needs to be imported.

It’s definitely not just fatty and bland. I’ve had it on Svalbard, where there’s no farming or husbandry going on because it’s too far up north.

Whale tastes a lot like beef, so yeah, might as well have that instead.