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  • From: "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch@vsnl.com>
  • To: <nafex@egroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:39:03 -0800

I have not seen people eating grasshoppers but they used to eat the adults
of white ants in Liberia. It was a delicacy there. One could buy only a
few grams for a dollar in the local markets. I was told that these were
quite tasty.

Monkey meat was also sold there as bush meat.

They also used to eat snails which was a delicacy there. One day I was
visiting a family and they offered me snail meat in lunch. I could not
stand it these are very dirty looking creatures here in India. So the sight
was nauseating for me. My Liberian hostess told me that it was a
coincidence that they had a guest as well as a dish like snail meat which is
not available more than 2-3 times a year and was thus a delicacy.

My hostess came from a decent family. She was educated in USA and her
husband worked for the UN. It was in 1983 and I used to teach horticulture
at the University of Liberia.

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
186/3 Jail Road
Mandi HP 175 001 INDIA
Phones:(01905)22810; 98160-22810 Fax:(01905) 25419
E-mail: parmarch@vsnl.com
----- Original Message -----
From: del stubbs <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 6:34 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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