We've saved the best for last. The zorilla, or striped pole cat, is native to Africa and is widely considered the stinkiest creature on the earth. It's a member of the weasel family and though it has stripes, it is not a skunk. It smells so bad that it can be smelled a half a mile away. That's more than 14 football fields. That, friends, is ripe. Most animals avoid them which is why the zorilla spends most of it's life alone. It's cute enough to hug and since it's probably lonely, it could use one. You'd just need arms a half mile long to keep your nose far enough away. Our final nominee for official mascot of Stink Week: the zorilla!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Stink Week, Day 6
Anya |
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Stinky Food of the Day: Durian
Durian is a fruit from southeast asia. Wait, it's a fruit? Like a lemon or an orange. How bad can that smell? Well, apparently, really bad. So bad that it's banned from public transport in some countries. Adam Zimmerman says it leaves your breath smelling like you kissed your dead grandmother. But if you can avoid breathing or burping, it tastes a little like vanilla custard. And smells horrible...
Just how bad does it smell? Check out this scientific experiment to get an idea:
Just how bad does it smell? Check out this scientific experiment to get an idea:
Stink Week Mascot Nominee: The Turkey Vulture
Huggably cute Turkey Vulture |
Stink Week, Day 5
June |
Still, it's worth it the danger of having a rabid garmant in the house. Jack is helping to make a stink about hearing loss (REALLY making a stink about hearing loss) and helping kids like June. You can help, too, by holding your nose and clicking here.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Stink Week Mascot Nominee: The Musk Ox
Musk Ox - Stinky and family oriented |
Stink Week, Day 3
Andrew |
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Stinky Food of the Day: Kimchi
Kimchi is a fermented cabbage dish very popular in Korea and elsewhere in the world. It smells so much like flatulence that it inpired the character below. There's really not much else to say about it.
Stinky Cheese Countdown Finale
We've been counting down the top 10 stinkiest cheeses in the world according to HotelClub Travel Blog. We're looking for the perfect stinky cheese to represent stink week and we're down to our last two (which just happens to be the official number of Stink Week). Let's wrap this up and get to the voting!
2. Camembert
Camembert is said to smell like 'God's feet'. That's pretty strong. God is all powerful, after all, so if He has sweaty feet, they are probably all powerful, too. So we'll count that as a plus. Let's see, Camembert is "rich in chemicals like ammonia, sodium chloride, and succinic acid". This is a food, we're talking about, right? It's also soft and runny and usually eaten with a spoon, which sounds gross. God's feet: definitely a candidate for official cheese of Stink Week.
1. Pont l'Eveque
Well that's a letdown. Never heard of it. It's one of the oldest cheeses in the world having been around ince the 13th century and supposedly smells like it. It's got to smell bad if it still stinks 800 years later. Of course, having smelled some of the stinkers participating in Stink Week, they might give Pont l'Eveque a run for it's money. Probably the biggest draw back to Pont l'Eveque is that the stink is only in the crust. Cut off the crust and you have a wimpy chedder-like cheese. It even looks yummy. That's OK, we've got more then enough horribly stinky cheeses to choose from. So, which cheese best represents Stink Week? You decide. Vote in the sidebar.
God's Feet |
Camembert is said to smell like 'God's feet'. That's pretty strong. God is all powerful, after all, so if He has sweaty feet, they are probably all powerful, too. So we'll count that as a plus. Let's see, Camembert is "rich in chemicals like ammonia, sodium chloride, and succinic acid". This is a food, we're talking about, right? It's also soft and runny and usually eaten with a spoon, which sounds gross. God's feet: definitely a candidate for official cheese of Stink Week.
Stinking for 800 years |
Well that's a letdown. Never heard of it. It's one of the oldest cheeses in the world having been around ince the 13th century and supposedly smells like it. It's got to smell bad if it still stinks 800 years later. Of course, having smelled some of the stinkers participating in Stink Week, they might give Pont l'Eveque a run for it's money. Probably the biggest draw back to Pont l'Eveque is that the stink is only in the crust. Cut off the crust and you have a wimpy chedder-like cheese. It even looks yummy. That's OK, we've got more then enough horribly stinky cheeses to choose from. So, which cheese best represents Stink Week? You decide. Vote in the sidebar.
Stink Week, Day 2
Well, that went downhill fast. Jack smells horrible. He wore his shirt through four hockey games and a bloody nose. Oh, and he slept in it. We'll be burning the sheets when this is over, too. Fortunately it is for a good cause (and won't last forever). He's helping kids like Phoebe, so that's worth some runny eyes and the occasional gagging. You can help him reach his goal and make the rest of us breath better by donating here.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Stinky Tofu, anyone?
How can we at Stink Week not like a food with stinky in the title? Stinky tofu is, well, tofu that stinks. It's made with fermented milk, meat, and other rotting things. Sometimes the juice is so rotted, there are maggot in it. Seriously. Here's how bad it smells: Some unscrupulous vendors in Asia mix in poo and chemicals to make it smell better and people don't notice! That is one stinky food right there. Watch Adam Zimmerman, the guy from bizarre foods, try to choke it down. Even he can't eat it.
Stink Week Mascot Nominee: The Magellanic Penguin
Cute. Just don't stand near by. |
Stink Week, Day 1
A.J. |
Friday, February 3, 2012
Top 10 Stinkiest Cheese Countdown, cont...
We're contiuing our countdown of the world's stinkiest cheeses according to the HotelClub Travel Blog. We're hoping to find the perfect stinky cheese to represent stink week. Onward!
4. Epoisses
First the bad news: it was a favorite of Napoleon. Of course, Napoleon was a bit of a weirdo so that might not be so bad. This is promising: Epoisses smells so bad that it has been banned from public transport throughout France. Cheese that smells so bad it is treated like a nuclear waste is certainly promising. And not only is it dangerously smelly, but it's also runny. We're starting to really like this cheese. Then there's this, and the HotelClub Travel Blog probably says it best: "if it starts to smell too strongly of ammonia, you should throw it away because it’s no longer edible. If it smells like someone who hasn’t showered in a week, enjoy!" Hey! Our Stink Week stinkers aren't going to shower for a week! This might be the perfect cheese for us. Let's continue the countdown just to be sure.
3. Munster
Eww. Munster. Yeah, that's a stinky cheese. They call it 'monster' cheese because it's so frightening. The smell growls at you from the shadows and threatens to rip your nostrils out. They could make a horror movie about munster. The HotelClub Travel blog says that a 3-month old munster is not something to be messed with. It smells just like sweaty feet. And nothing makes the mouth water quite like sweaty feet. Or is it 'makes the eyes water.' Either way, this is definitely a worthy candidate for official cheese of Stink Week.
Smells like someone who hasn't showered in a week |
First the bad news: it was a favorite of Napoleon. Of course, Napoleon was a bit of a weirdo so that might not be so bad. This is promising: Epoisses smells so bad that it has been banned from public transport throughout France. Cheese that smells so bad it is treated like a nuclear waste is certainly promising. And not only is it dangerously smelly, but it's also runny. We're starting to really like this cheese. Then there's this, and the HotelClub Travel Blog probably says it best: "if it starts to smell too strongly of ammonia, you should throw it away because it’s no longer edible. If it smells like someone who hasn’t showered in a week, enjoy!" Hey! Our Stink Week stinkers aren't going to shower for a week! This might be the perfect cheese for us. Let's continue the countdown just to be sure.
'Monster' cheese - Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
Eww. Munster. Yeah, that's a stinky cheese. They call it 'monster' cheese because it's so frightening. The smell growls at you from the shadows and threatens to rip your nostrils out. They could make a horror movie about munster. The HotelClub Travel blog says that a 3-month old munster is not something to be messed with. It smells just like sweaty feet. And nothing makes the mouth water quite like sweaty feet. Or is it 'makes the eyes water.' Either way, this is definitely a worthy candidate for official cheese of Stink Week.
Stinky Food of the Day: Kusaya
Kusaya is fish that has been soaked in salty water and the left in the sun to dry. If that's not gross enough, the salt water is NEVER changed. They just keep soaking fish in the same bucket over and over and over. And the bucket is just left out in the sun. Some of these brine buckets have been sitting in the sun and soaking fish for hundreds of years. Got that? Fish left out in the sun for hundreds of years. Sounds yummy. But here's the funny part. Kusaya, apparently, literally means 'that stinks' in Japanese. So if you go to a restaurant in Japan and order something 'that stinks', this is what they will serve you. This might be the perfect food for Stink Week. Don't believe us? Watch this video of a woman smelling Kusaya for the first time. We suspect some Stink Week stinkers will react the same when smelling their own armpits.
Stink Week Mascot Nominee
The walrus is one of the least attractive animals in the world. Did you know that it also is one of the smelliest, too? That's right. The walrus is both homely and stinky. This is because 50 pounds of raw fish and clams go in to, and out of, the walrus every day. And they like to 'flipper paint' themselves and their surroundings with the stuff that they produce, if you know what we mean. Nothing like covering yourself in something you've already, um, used. We're gagging just thinking about it. The walrus, ladies and gentlemen, an excellent candidate for Stink Week Mascot.
The walrus may be smelly but at least they are ugly. |
Something Stinks
Owen has his hearing aids, but some kids don't |
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Stink Week Mascot Search
Tamandua - foul smelling, but cute |
Turning Away Kids Who Need Help Stinks
You can help Alba |
The Minuteman ARC Program for Children with Hearing Loss is one of the best in the world, but they only have limited capacity and they are full. So they split off a group just for babies. The parents still get the same great support and the babies still get the exceptional services, but the group size is much more manageable. The problem is that running two groups costs more money. If we don't raise $10,000 the group can not run. Families will be turned away and that stinks! You can help by supporting the baby group here.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Top 10 Stinky Cheeses cont...
Back to our search for the perfect cheese to represent Stink Week. We're counting down the top 10 stinkiest cheeses according to the HotelClub Travel Blog.
6. Roquefort
Blue mold + dead people = zombie cheese |
Nothing says cut me a slice like a cheese that's been banned in several countries. Apparently the bacteria in Roquefort can kill some people. That stinks, but in a really bad way. Most people don't eat it, though, because of the blue mold that looks really, really gross. The stink is a plus. The dead people is definitely a minus. Roquefort is out. Next!
5. Brie de Meaux
Well, the blog doesn't have much bad to say about this cheese, except that it smells like cleaning liquid. Yum. Other than that it's creamy and delicious. It even looks tasty. We're sure it smells nasty, but cleaning liquid sounds a little too...clean...for Stink Week. Let's keep looking.
5. Brie de Meaux
Creamy. Delicious. Smells like Windex. |
Babies Stink
Stinky babies |
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