Japanese feline-based fodder?

With one Japanese purveyor of packed lunches now offering whale curry, and the nation’s newly expanded ‘scientific hunts’ potentially set to provide humpback burgers, public opinion outside Japan has been far from positive to say the least.

So, perhaps in a bid to make the munching of marine-based mammals seem a little less monstrous, a number of imaginative individuals have customised the popular Japanese winter dish nabe,

to cleverly accommodate cats. With the more of them in there the merrier — or indeed meatier.

Although cramming so many in can be a little laborious, especially when you need to get the lid on.

Creating a meal which arguably makes whale in curry, or even a can, seem almost palatable.

Perhaps.