This hapless seagull fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala in the UK — and now smells delicious.
“The thing that shocked us most was the smell,” even after a good scrubbing, veterinary nurse Lucy Kells marveled to Wales Online.
The seagull being cleaned by an animal rescue volunteer.Splash News “Gullfrazie,” as he’s now called, made “everyone’s belly rumble,” she said.
“He smelled amazing.”
The bird was discovered foundering in a vat of waste curry behind a Welsh food factory on Monday. The dip in the spicy Indian delicacy left him a bright orange.
“We think he was fishing out chicken and fell in,” Kells said.
Workers rushed him to a wildlife hospital near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, where a scrubbing has restored him to his original gray and white.
He’s being kept at the Vale Wildlife Hospital for a couple a weeks so the natural waterproofing oils in his feathers are restored.
“Once we got all the chicken tikka off him he was looking quite nice,” Kells said.
