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Date: | Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:48:06 -0400 |
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Martha dear, oh queen of bugs and etceteras.
I do hope your newspaper carried the same wonderful article the Chicago
Tribune did this morning (Sunday). While perusing to see if the NY Times
article had been picked up, I couldn't help but chuckle and think of our 'net
discussions when I read this headline: "Hold the pickle and lettuce; eating
bugs shouldn't upset us." They didn't mention calcium, but apparently
roasted leaf-cutter ants taste like bacon. In Thailand, grasshopeers are
gathered in rural areas and sold in city markets in what has become a $6.5
million a year industry. Fried termites taste like french fries, crunchy &
delicous. "It is estimated that some 500 species of insect - grasshoppers,
crickets, caterpillars, termites, aquatic insects, bees, wasp broods - all
appear on menus somewhere in our world. Dried insects are 60 to 70 percent
protein; when reconstituted are about 20% protein, very similar to red meat.
Caterpillars & termites contain 6 to 7 calories per gram, more than almost
any other food. They are lycine-rish and supply iron, especially important
to pregnant women; zinc, thiamine and riboflavin.
Ginny,
Cooling cabbage gel? And what do we do with that? Vanilla cream for the
nipples? Will that counteract the vanilla scented pacifiers that R--s Labs
graciously gives to hospitals??
It is H-O-T and sunny here in Chicago... 'bout time.... everyone is off to
the pool 'cept me; oh well. :(
Jan B.
P.S. Kathleen - make my T-shirt XL.
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