Getting back to the whale poo - did you know that it's an expensive commodity????

One of my friends came over from the UK for a week and he mentioned about ambergris...

Found the following website that explains it in more detail. Basically its found in whale poo (that actually floats when it comes out of the whale) and is then used as an ingredient in perfume and in pharmaceuticals and is also used as an aphrodisiac (erm...yeah...think i'll stick to chocolates..)

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...28BF47EA6CBAC3

Oh and whale poo size - about 100 pounds in weight.........you need a ginormous pooper-scooper for that....... eeew