>>44497836it appears to be an acquired taste
From William Dampier's A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
>Captain Swan, to encourage his men to eat this coarse flesh, would commend it for extraordinary food, comparing the seal to a roasted pig, the boobies to hens, and the penguins to ducks: this he did to train them to live contentedly on coarse meat, not knowing but we might be forced to make use of such food before we departed out of these seas; for it is generally seen among privateers that nothing emboldens them sooner to mutiny than want, which we could not well suffer in a place where there are such quantities of these animals to be had if men could be persuaded to be content with them.apparently the eggs are good though
>Their flesh is but ordinary food but their eggs are good meat. turtle was way more popular, they loved how it tasted and the shells where able to be used and sold for good prices back home
