Meanings
- uncountableFrozen meat or eggs, eaten partially thawed.
We ate that quaq — frozen fish — all winter, raw and dipped in seal oil.
2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska2 more examples
Freezing also produces quaq, the Arctic's favorite protein dish made by freezing raw protein and eating it when partially defrosted.
2007, Richard Hosking, Eggs in Cookery: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2006Some people in Arctic regions eat frozen meat called quaq. Common varieties of quaq include caribou, seal, fish, and musk ox.
2015, Alicia Z. Klepeis, The World's Strangest Foods
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