Tree bark on The Wooded Beardsman's campfire menu: 'yes or no?'
The short left a week of beaver burgers and duck soup far behind, and its comments turned into a debate about calories, flour and bark tea.
The Wooded BeardsmanStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 294,056 views a day, 34 times a normal first day on this channel (8,594).
Eating tree bark! (yes or no?)
A short about chewing on a tree has become the fastest starter on The Wooded Beardsman's channel this week. "Eating tree bark! (yes or no?)" passed 200,000 views within fourteen hours of going up. That is roughly thirty times what his shorts usually gather in a whole first day.
The rest of his week was hardly plain eating. There were beaver burgers the day before, a duck soup he asked viewers to "hear me out" on, a wild bird billed as better than chicken, and a trap he says could save your life. Each of those sits somewhere in the tens of thousands of views. The bark outran all of them in less than a day. His channel page says he does not catch and release: he catches, keeps and eats. Bark may be the humblest thing that rule has put on his fire.
The comment section moved just as fast. It had 85 comments in its first fourteen hours, where his shorts usually draw about a dozen in their first day. The most liked one is a dry joke about what burnt wood tastes like. Below it, viewers argue the practical side. Several ask whether bark has any calories the body can use. Others call it starvation food, something that keeps you going until you find a real meal. One explains that people once dried and ground it into flour for bread. A viewer from Canada's east coast says they had never seen bark cooked this way. Where they live, people brew it as tea, chew it raw or grind it into flour, from white pine, yellow birch and sugar maple. A few are still wondering what seasoning might rescue it.
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What viewers say
*Takes a bite of burnt wood
"Tastes a little bit like burnt wood"@flagrantlyvivid7195See it on YouTubeThat’s the entire reason they say you “eat it to survive” not “you can eat it to live”.
@phucketol2LSee it on YouTubeI have never seen it prepared like this before.
I live on the east coast of Canada, we do a tea out of it or just gnaw on it raw or you can actually make a flour out of it if you have time.
The trees we eat the cambium layer from in my area, is white pine, yellow birch and sugar maple.@amonraphoenixSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- The Wooded Beardsman
- Subscribers
- 1,630,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 330,868
- Channel views, pace per day
- 48,119 (on a normal day: 50,347)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 224,719 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 294,056
The numbers
A short that usually starts in the thousands, and a first fourteen hours far above that.
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The bark of which tree gave the world the compound behind aspirin?
Willow bark contains salicin, the natural compound that led chemists to acetylsalicylic acid, sold as aspirin.
