I still love the fact that most things coming out of a whale are revolting, but very occasionally they make an extremely expensive scent nugget. Apparently it forms around a blockage or sharp object in the whale’s digestive tract, such as a squid beak.
I still love the fact that most things coming out of a whale are revolting, but very occasionally they make an extremely expensive scent nugget. Apparently it forms around a blockage or sharp object in the whale’s digestive tract, such as a squid beak.
Check this Smithsonian article from 2012 out:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
Yum