blubber

The daughter of a disgraced house, Valya isn’t content to accept her family’s banishment to a life peddling whale fur and blubber.

This was a revival of an older recipe, we were told, but the chicken was a blob of blubber with the consistency of paper.

“It’s a scientific tool we use to collect whale skin and blubber samples.”

“But in the whaling ship, that’s where they store the blubber.”

They swim slowly and near shore, have thick blubber and float when killed, according to Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.