{"id":349,"date":"2020-05-01T01:51:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2020-05-01T02:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T02:12:38","slug":"flipper-pies-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/flipper-pies-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipper Pies (Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Made with an unusual ingredient \u2013 harp seal flippers, flipper pies are a Newfoundland tradition that come with a lot of controversy and history. The reason for the controversy is that the flippers used for these pies are real seal flippers, and the meat is said to taste simultaneously like rich game and fish, comparable to duck meat. The pie is similar to a pot pie in that the seal flippers are cooked with vegetables in a thick sauce and then covered with pastry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animal rights campaigners have criticized the seal hunts, so respectful hunts have been maintained for centuries. For this reason, it will be difficult to find a flipper pie outside Newfoundland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you find yourself there and you\u2019re looking to try something tasty and unique, flipper pies may be the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/foods\/seal-flipper-pie-newfoundland\">How to make Seal Flipper Pies?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sealharvest.ca\/flipper-pie-anyone-where-to-buy-seal-meat\/\">Where to buy Flipper pies or seal meat?<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made with an unusual ingredient \u2013 harp seal flippers, flipper pies are a Newfoundland tradition that come with a lot of controversy and history. The reason for the controversy is that the flippers used for these pies are real seal flippers, and the meat is said to taste simultaneously like rich game and fish, comparable [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[108,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}