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  • From: jim <jmc1@epix.net>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:46:02 +0000

 

ENOUGH ALREADY!!

Bill Russell wrote:

I've heard that grasshoppers taste like shrimp, only better. Can anyone
confirm this?

----- Original Message -----
From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers

> 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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