Pilot-whale blubber
Faroese spik is the under-skin blubber of the long-finned pilot whale, eaten salted alongside dried fish or whale meat and sometimes spread on bread. It is a distinct fat tissue, not meat, sheep tallow or rendered whale oil.
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Animal fats
Seal blubber
Seal blubber is the fat beneath a seal’s skin, used as food and oil. Greenlandic iginneq is a named fermented blubber food, distinct from aged seal meat.
Sheep fat
Sheep fat is edible adipose tissue from sheep, including back and tail depots. A South African zebra-droëwors experiment compared several fat levels; its findings are specific to that formulation.
Pork back fat
Unrendered subcutaneous pork fat provides distinct pale pieces, texture and lipid flavor precursors in sausage, and differs from belly, leaf fat and rendered lard.