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To want to tell you about ice cream?

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Neverender · 17/07/2019 15:58

I've only just discovered that beaver anal secretions are used to flavour vanilla, strawberry and raspberry sweet treats like ice cream. Anything labelled as 'natural flavourings' could mean castoreum. Vom...

Have bought the posh stuff with vanilla in now!

metro.co.uk/2019/03/12/beaver-anal-secretion-ice-cream-8887570/

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ErrolTheDragon · 17/07/2019 18:07

My dog’s anal glands have to be milked sometimes. I don’t think dog arse milk would make good ice cream though. It honks like a cadaver in the hot sun.

OTOH it might be a substitute for fish sauce?

I think musk used in high end perfumes comes from the anal gland of a deer. There's been a lot of poking around in animal's bottoms in the name of smells and flavours!

And then there's ambergris...

Anniegetyourgun · 17/07/2019 18:10

I have to say that article looks like bullshit.

Oh wait, that's a different flavour...

ContactLight · 17/07/2019 18:12

Musk comes from the nether regions of deer and also the civet cat I bet they have to wear stout gloves when they're milking that

Neverender · 17/07/2019 19:44

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD I bet it was a bloke Wink

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Neverender · 17/07/2019 19:46

recrudescence Well done SmileSmileSmile

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Neverender · 17/07/2019 19:48

Please vote this for classics! I posted this and then went out but the replies are hilarious 😂

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isitwhatitis · 17/07/2019 20:42

I have to say that article looks like bullshit.

Chester Zoo did a monkey poo ice cream a few years ago so you never know...

Badcat666 · 17/07/2019 20:45

looks at my cats

looks at my unused ice cream maker

You just know, KNOW that some "only eat natural products" person, somewhere, is in their kitchen right now after "foraging" organic wild animal anal secretion glands to mix with their own laydee boobie juice to make ice cream......

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