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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@penn.com>
  • To: <nafex@egroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:45:38 -0500

I wonder if Japanese Beetles would taste better if fried in butter. I've
learned that anything tastes good if it's prepared that way.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginda Fisher" <ginda@concentric.net>
To: <nafex@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers


> 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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