Comments on: A Taste of Edible Feces

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:42:54 +0000

I’ll try it if I do get an opportunity. My friend is offering White Ambergris @ USD58.00 per.gram. So I’m kinda curious to try it out. After all what’s the harm in trying it…its just whale’s poop..:-))

By: Michael Putzel

Michael Putzel — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:06:54 +0000

Melville’s description makes it sound as though getting the substance from a live whale may not have been good to man or beast: “Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is. By some, ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth’s pills, and then running out of harm’s way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.”

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:12:34 +0000

I wondered the same as Nick. I speculate that ambergris was harvested from whale carcasses. Since ambergris was so valuable and formed within the body of the whale over a long time, it would seem reasonable that whalers would examine the whale’s entrails for it.

By: bicbic

bicbic — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:37:07 +0000

Funny, none of my gourmet cookbooks mention ambergris…

By: Mari

Mari — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:46:11 +0000

I am wondering the same as Nick F. Why is it illegal? Inquiring mind

By: Coyoty

Coyoty — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:18:55 +0000

Nick, ambergris is an equivalent of ivory. It’s valuable and poachers will kill whales to get it. They don’t want to wait for it to maybe float their way.

By: Nick Ferriter

Nick Ferriter — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:04:44 +0000

But, why does the government think that preventing us from eating the whale excreta is helpful in the survival of marine mammals?

By: JimSrr

JimSrr — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:32 +0000

Sorry, but ambergris appears nowhere on my bucket list!

By: jan

jan — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:32:23 +0000

kinda gives a whole new meaning to the command of “eat s…” doesn’t it. that command doesn’t seem to carry the same…….flavour…for me now!

By: Earl Handy

Earl Handy — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:54:58 +0000

How can Whale shit be Illegal? It may be rare but no harm is done to any whale by collecting along with other beach litter. I wouldn’t eat it but selling it to the French so they can make poop perfume is just fine with me.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:21:07 +0000

Well, there’s always weasel poop coffee. That’s still legal.

By: HabogeeUserani

HabogeeUserani — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:40:44 +0000

“I chuckled when reading about how someone compares eating feces to a truffle. But, I would rather eat the truffle, and let someone else compare that to eating feces”.

Fungus or feces. I’ll pass on both, thank you.

By: Ken D

Ken D — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:58:01 +0000

And do they then bark at the moon?

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:06:41 +0000

Aw, c’mon. Is that all there is? Now I gotta spend the night Googling because of a tempting but non-meaty morsel of ambergis.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:09:02 +0000

None for me, if only as a matter of principle, thanks. I chuckled when reading about how someone compares eating feces to a truffle. But, I would rather eat the truffle, and let someone else compare that to eating feces.