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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:34:12 -0000

ditto on the grasshoppers- leartned this from our good friend from Camaroon.
Where people think they're a delicacy and a tasty one. However there are
grashoppers not safe to eat but i cant remember his description. I remember
my father speaking of thhe locust swarms in Kansas (the 30's?) gathering
gunny sacks for the chickens. The locusts ate even the bark of his young
fruit trees. minnesota del


>From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
>Reply-To: nafex@egroups.com
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:35:41 -0500
>
>Grasshoppers taste quite good fried in butter. I'm told that crickets
>and bees (!) are good, too. I'm going to stay away from Japanese
>beetles, though. Let me know how you like them if you try it, though.
>
>Ginda
>
>Bill Russell wrote:
> >
> > 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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