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What's more interesting is, beaver castor sacs also used as a strawberry and vanilla flavour substitute, approved by FDA.

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[-] ech@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago

Sperm

Oh god...

Whale vomit

Somehow better, but still horrifying.

[-] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 14 points 3 months ago

Semen actually became a semi-popular note in boutique fragrances some years ago, ELDO's Secretions Magnifique comes to mind.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 34 points 3 months ago

I hear the beaver glands taste like vanilla, but I can't be sure that's not just a prank people pull to get unsuspecting victims to lick beaver ass.

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

prank people pull

Maybe it's a "prank" beavers pull.

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[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Vanillin, the modern artificial vanilla flavor, is made from lignin, one of the main components of bark. Beavers eat a lot of bark, and thus process a lot of lignin. Apparently the lignin accumulates in their anal scent glands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum

[-] TaterTot@piefed.social 18 points 3 months ago

Who smells like freaking Porpoise Hork!?

[-] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Precious hamburgers?

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ambergris is what "whale vomit" is called, in case anyone didn't know. I don't know what beaver anus secretion is called.

Edit: Duh, I just read OP's note/meme. I fully approve of this use of Gordon Ramsey's likeness in connection with beaver ~~anus secretions~~ castor.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We need to leave beavers alone. If i want to smell one i'll go find one in the wild and cuddle it

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
[-] xzinik@feddit.cl 5 points 3 months ago

if not friend, why friend shaped?

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

My oh my. I need to study up on my TierZoo. Nothing with a "bite through trees" ability will avoid using it on humans.

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 7 points 3 months ago

98% of Moby Dick was concentrated on the old ass whaling industry, and based on this I believe it was actually whale phlegm

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 3 months ago

It's really neither. It happens in the intestines to help coat and pass beaks and other inedible pointy stuff.

So it's actually whale shit.

[-] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I'd say there should be a third arm with musk deer on it.

[-] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Binturong poops smell like popcorn, I heard. Though sometimes my poops also smell a bit like popcorn

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