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about 1 month ago yarb said:

Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 94

9 months ago bilby said:

I wasn't just easting curried garlic? *worried*

9 months ago mollusque said:

Also the mess remaining from flensing and boiling out a whale.

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

fish offal

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