I have to admit that I find this oddity really fascinating.

If you could buy canned whale now, I'd try it.

I didn't realize you could every buy canned whale.  This ad is from 1919, so you could apparently get it then, at least in Canada.  I wonder if you could buy canned whale anywhere else, and for how long canned whale was a dining option?

Makes you wonder what other odd canned foods there were that are now gone.