Here are some photos of Pippa Middleton out and about in London yesterday. I would theorize that she’s coming from or going to work, but Pippa doesn’t work in the traditional sense. She just sort of vacations and eats out and works out, and she writes about her Pippa adventures for various publications. Which brings me to Pippa’s latest scandal. In one of her latest columns/essays for The Telegraph, Pippa wrote about how she tried whale carpaccio during a recent vacation in Norway. “Whale carpaccio” as in “smoked whale meat.” Yeah, so PETA has some problems.

Pippa Middleton may want to wear a disguise if she’s ever in the vicinity of PETA’s London office. In her column for the Daily Telegraph, Kate Middleton’s younger sister recalled trying smoked whale carpaccio (i.e. smoked-but-uncooked whale meat) during a recent trip to Norway.
Pippa noted benignly that the whale tasted “similar to smoked salmon but looks more like venison carpaccio.”

Well, as you might be able to guess, animal rights groups—and PETA in particular—are finding her culinary adventure particularly distasteful.

“Pippa is not known for common sense or compassion, but it still beggars belief that anyone, let alone someone from a country like ours, where whale meat has long been banned, could be oblivious to the uproar over Norway’s slaughter of these gentle giants,” Elisa Allen, associate director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals U.K., said Thursday in an exclusive statement to E! News. “Does she think or read? What’s next, a panda steak or an elephant canapé? These whales are harpooned and bled to death before they’re gutted. If Pippa is looking for a culinary experience, some of the best high-end vegan food—recently named by Forbes magazine as a top food trend—can be found in Norway, and it’s good for the heart, an organ Pippa seems to lack.”

[From E! News]

Maybe this makes me a bad, uninspired person, but I’ve never had the desire to try any of the food that’s “banned” in America or any country. I don’t have a super-adventurous palate in the first place, but you would have to pay me to try whale carpaccio. And yes, whale meat is banned in the UK and America and many other countries. I guess not in Norway. Should we just chalk this up to “when in Rome”? Or should Pippa watch what she eats and writes about?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.