In Western Civ., was whale eaten My understanding is that it used to be quite normal in Europe back when whales were plentiful and relatively easy to catch off

In Western Civ., was whale eaten My understanding is that it used to be quite normal in Europe back when whales were plentiful and relatively easy to catch off the French and Spanish coasts. However by the end of 17th-century whale stocks there had completely collapsed due to overfishing, and it fell out of favour as food. In Europe it's really only Norway, Iceland and Greenland that continued eating whale into modern times and even there it's popularity has dropped dramatically since the 80s.