[Sca-cooks] strange recipe

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

"dale elliott" <el2iot2 at mail.com> wrote:
>Question:  Where do you buy Whale Barf<ambergrise>?
>
>joy
>Radei

Ambergris is not really whale barf. I realize you were being 
humorous, but i don't want lurkers to be led astray.

The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale and does not have a 
baleen, which is a sort of filter. Instead, it eats various things 
that have hard  and sharp parts that are not digested, like squid 
beaks. Ambergris is a waxy substance produced to coat these hard 
sharp bits so they don't injure the whale's digestive system. Yes, it 
is regurgitated. But barf as i think of it is food you eat and 
started to digest in your stomach, but for various reasons have 
vomited up. Ambergris is rather different than partially digested 
food mixed with stomach acids.
-- 
Urtatim, formerly Anahita