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It takes an army and a lot of peeling to dish up this church’s seal flipper dinner

The cooks behind the massively popular seal flipper dinners at Wesley United Church in downtown St. John’s are proof that you don’t have to love what you do, in order to do it well. “I don’t like flippers. Nope.… But I’ve been cooking them for over 20 years,” says Phoebe Sheppard, chair of the Fall Fair Committee at the church, which organizes three annual seal flipper dinner fundraisers at the church.,,, “You’ve got nine million seals out there, so what a great economic opportunity to hunt more,” >click to read<09:31