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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:58:05 -0500

Gypsy moths might be okay, but don't try eating Japanese beetles. I
have friends who thought they would be a terrific "natural food". These
are people who ate ants and grasshoppers with relish. They collected a
few hundred Jabs from the (unsprayed) rose bushes and popped them in the
oven. Let's just say they never tried that again.

In general, I think beetles are bitter and unpleasant. Maybe that's why
there are so many of them.

Lucky Pittman wrote:
>
> At 04:43 PM 01/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >That's a great idea! If you have connections to Weight Watchers, I will be
> >happy to ship off to you a case of 500 jars, on consignment, tomorrow.
> >Weight Watchers may be the perfect outlet. Everyone who I have approached
> >with this product has experienced an immediate reduction of their appetite.
> >We'll find a market if we keep trying.
> Bill,
> Maybe after harvesting the roe from your GMs, you could grind them up and
> market them, too.
> I hear radio ads all day long for 'Chito-slim', 'Chito-san', and the like -
> extolling the virtues of that 'revolutionary fiber', chitin.
> Why should the folks who are marketing ground-up shrimp & crab shells have
> a monopoly? Who's to say the chitinous exoskeleton of gypsy moths, or
> Japanese beetles, for that matter, won't "tie up dietary fat, making you
> burn your own stored fats"?
> Could be a new & profitable niche for us NAFEXians.
>
> LOL
>
> Lucky







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