President Obama eats salmon previously chewed on by a bear

President Obama lunched on some salmon picked over from an actual bear – not to be confused with Bear Grylls – on his wilderness trek through Alaska with the host of NBC's Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

Obama, who was visiting Alaska over three days to test his wilderness skills and to survey the impact of climate change on the state, was a little worried about what might be on the menu.

"I've seen some of the stuff Bear eats, and it's gotta be something that doesn't still have its legs and eyes on it. I want it not to be too recognizable," he said on a video that appeared on the Today Show, according to people.com.

So, it was salmon, bloody and left behind on the river bank by a bear, that would be the main course. Grylls explained that bears feast on the fattiest parts of the fish – the eggs, skin and brain – and leave much of the meat behind.
Once the fish was cooked, the President took a bite, though he felt it needed a little something. "It would have been nice if we had a cracker to go with it," Obama said.

Obama added that Bear's a "mediocre cook" and that he wished he didn't know so much. "Now, the fact that he told me this was a leftover fish from a bear, I don't know if that was necessary. He could have just left that out," he joked.

The two men taped the episode last week, when Obama first posted a selfie of himself alongside with wilderness expert.