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I just discovered emus are oily. You can by oil of emu in big bottles! Perhaps they are just a variety of feathered olive.
How does one gain oil from an emu?
It's a complicated process.
1> Raise the emu on a diet of pasta and mediterranean food up until the age of 2.
2> Exercise is important. In order to promote oiliness the emu must be trained to fall off a cedar log each morning at 1030.
3> The emu's shed feathers should be collected daily and stored at 3 degrees celsius for five days with two oranges, a tin bucket, and a clone of Rolf Harris.
4> At this point emu oil should begin accumulating in the bucket.
NB Pregnant emus cannot be used for oil production.
"plums" are a Tony Martin reference to testicles (on "Eat Your Peas"). The first reference that I know of were in a Martin Molloy mock UK comedy sketch, very much in the "carry on" spirit, where at least one character was suffering some form of injury. Saying that I would rather suffer injury there rather than watch HH again would be a bit of a stretch! Maybe it's something to do with "Bristol Cream".
Oh, there's a scene in Hudson Hawk where he had a shopping list for cat-burgling the Vatican and one of the CIA candy bars says something like " olive oil, one hundred stamps.... and Harvey's Bristol Cream..... Man this is going to be some date!"
And what the hell would you want with emu oil for?
They are like turkeys, only stupider and bigger. I have rebuilt fences knocked down by the moronic b*ggers often as they are too stupid to go back through the original holes they made in the fence.
Their only saving grace is that they are not camels which are bigger, more moronic and smell worse a couple of days after being shot on a hot summer day. Camels can destroy fencing faster than you can blink. Some where around the family is a set of photographs taken in sequence over a period of three minutes (through as telescopic lens) where a camel destroyed about two hundred yards of cattle/horse/dog proof fencing up in the Kimberleys. The last two photographs show the b*stard cartwheeling through the fence after being shot with a 303.
It took most of a day for the station staff to repair the damage and it was critical as it was near an experimental plot in the pre Ord River assessment.
I am extremely glad we don't have elephants, rhinos, and hippos here, although some of the people I have seen lately are rapidly approaching the ugly American sizes, but they are not endemic in pastoral country.
Oh I don't know, I quite like seeing them running around in paddocks in Pakenham type areas! Sadly don't really know any emus personally.
As to your question, I was selling it to a man like in a carton of milk, and as much volume. He drinks it.... go figure
Assume is cold pressed, though cannot say if it was a virgin.
BibwithHart wrote: I just discovered emus are oily. You can by oil of emu in big bottles! Perhaps they are just a variety of feathered olive.
How does one gain oil from an emu?
Squeeze it, of course.
If you want it cold pressed, put it in the freezer, then squeeze it. Hard.
Perhaps you don't get it from emus, you rub it on the emus to help them slide through fences rather than knock them down; like baby oil (except that babies slide through fences quite easily without oiling or can be thrown over them effortlessly).