Bear Gryll’s on his survival show ate a skunk once and said it was one of his worst mistakes. Apparently the stink permeates the meat. Made him nauseous. Said he would never do it again
I have to force myself to do it because it's a stinking mess to dispose of them.
I drop them in a heavy duty construction garbage bag, quickly seal it, then drop it in another one and repeat. Then I have to leave it on the side of the garage till garbage pick up day. But you can still smell it.....
I live in a highly populated area north of Detroit and skunks are everywhere. There's more skunk roadkill than there are squirrels.....
From the guy that drinks his own pee. Savage.
“Bear Gryll’s on his survival show ate a skunk once and said it was one of his worst mistakes.”
IIRC he also picked up a fresh elephant turd, squeezed about a quart of water out as he held over his head with open mouth and drank it. Nothin’ better than fresh squeezed... It was a good survival show while it lasted, I think he ate or drank something gross frequently.
About 25 years ago, my wife and I were traveling down some back road on the way back from a favorite ice cream shop, and I hit a skunk. I had the AC on high, and it sucked all of the smell into the passenger compartment. Obviously, we opened the windows, and my wife nearly puked. It took about two months to get rid of that smell, and I used every chemical known to mankind to get rid of it. I passed by that dead skunk every day for several weeks on the way back-and-forth to work, and let me tell you that dead skunks definitely smell a lot worse than the smell they emit when they were alive… if that’s possible to even imagine.
As a funny aside, my wife (of maybe 2 months at the time) and I had an argument about who was going to be able to shower first when we got home, but when we finally pulled up to our apartment, she refused to get out of the car because she thought that the skunk was somehow still alive and clinging to the tire. I told her that there was no way that it was still alive when it had been hit by a 3500 pound vehicle going about 60 miles an hour, let alone sitting there waiting to attack her. I also told her that she didn’t get out right away, I was going to leave her there and go shower. Needless to say, she got out of the car immediately. Also funny was the fact that she had grown up in a city, and probably only saw skunks on TV. The complaints that she made to her mother were side splitting. I still give her shit about that.