After the beaver, the moose is probably Canada's iconic animal.
Well, after the polar bear, black bear, grizzly bear, Arctic fox, bobcat, wolf, wolverine, cougar...mosquito...
Anyway. Moose. Singular and plural: moose.
A singular (one hopes) story involving moose.
From Huff Post: Chew on this: Two 8th grade students on a Canadian school trip were fooled into eating moose droppings by a chaperone and the teachers and principal didn't do anything to stop it.
One of the kids got the stuff stuck in her braces...frantically brushed in lake water...
The article remarks that the principal's career is now in the toilet.

The moral of this story is: Be wary if anyone offers you a choco-covered almond. That just happens to be lying around in the woods. Even if person offering is a nice polite Canadian in a position of *authority*.


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Lezlie
I agree with cc - mean and dangerous to the health of the duped ones.
I tht the Canadional Animals were the Maple Leafs.
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I tht the Canadional Animals were the Maple Leafs.
r.
:D
(Wish I hadn't been eating lunch while reading.) ~r
No serve Moose dropping at the White House Picnic.
If in America?
Canadian carry cans of Mace. Spray on Racoon. Deer.
Bears are nice?
They like Kerry?
If you see chewed bones, cans and black glasses. Dung.
If dung has beer can?
If dung has Sugarman?
You best hightail`Home!
No eat scat with Spray.
Dung has skunk `Oder.
Skunk?
Ay, at Congressional Picnic?
Skunk use White OutHouse.
I swear I best get a 'Fat Tire'
and gulp beer alone. Behave.
Any teacher who sees moose poop needs to move the group to a safer location. (Or hide behind a tree if you see one).
Boanerges - Basic winter training
Art - Oh deer, Sugar must be sweet, but he's just begun, no dung yet.
Sheila - indeed.
Nana - wait a minute, all the local born-again Indians will get upset at such a suggestion.
Joan H and Linnnnn - Sorry. Advance warning for next week's episode: Don't read over lunch then either.
Tink - that's why they're so fun to mess with!
Scanner - You first.
Jonathan - Silly, the Leafs aren't animals - they're plants.
Gerald - all goes to show that organic ain't always the way to go.
ccdarling - all concerned got censured and the principal fired. But the kids who fell for the joke are getting teased.
Christine - quite remarkably stupid!
AKA - must have been bush fever - tho they were only out two days..
Older/exasp - kids do that shit, to be expected. But teachers, chaperones and principals?
Walter - you can still get a buzz from the beer.
Jmac - we have a few bad (road) apples
Lezlie - quite!
John - Smart fellah.
Joisey - whatever.
(another northern country with big deerlike creatures, sort of like Norwegia)
"Always smell your food before eating..."
Chiller - ah, to be in Spain again...limp fritos and all
Just Thinking - that's why God gave us noses.
Drew - a little harsh, esp. since the grown-ups were saying Go For It. Good lesson in doubting authority. SMASH THE STATE!
Doug - If only poop were good to eat - there's piles of it in the woods...and elsewhere...