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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2004.10.30 (09) [E/LS]

Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de> Wrote
> And then there is that rotten fish the Icelandic bury in the ground for
> months, along with some other truly nasty ingredients, let it "ripen",

I am probably still one of the best authorities on Insects as a Food Source
in the Southern Hemisphere. My paper is available to anyone who's interested
and recipes are included. My gourmet mealworm pate proved a real goer and
bee larvae lightly fried in butter then sprinkled with salt and paprika make
the perfect cocktail savoury.
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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From: Ed Alexander <edsells at cogeco.ca>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2004.10.31 (03) [E]

At 01:37 PM 10/31/04 -0800, Reinhard/Ron wrote:


  "Chewing on animal corpses" or not, I hope to be around some more.
In case you needed another reason for not eating 'possum.......

"My Pa used to hunt a lot," came the answer, "for coon, possum, and polecat.
He would skin 'em for eat.  But something caused me to stop eating possum.
One day, Pa carried a dog to hunt.  And somebody out in the woods was dead,
and they didn't bury 'em deep enough.  The dog bark and bark, and trace the
possum.  When he got 'em, the possum been dug in the grave and eat the man."
Georgie Richardson in Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball.

Ed Alexander, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (yes, we have coon and possum here)

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Delectables

Ed,

I personally know people who eat or used to eat the mentioned animals' meat
as well as the meat of squirrels and muskrats.  It is part of their
traditional diet, for whatever reason, usually having started out with
abject poverty, such as in the Appalachian Mountains or among African slaves
and their descendants.  The ancestors of the latter learned to develop diets
created under unspeakable poverty and injustice into highly prized culinary
art forms ("soul food") that utilize what used to be considered scraps or
inedible matter by those better off.  Although I do not and did not seek out
such meats, I can attest to the fact that soul food has a lot to offer,
especially if it is part and parcel of the closeness and warmth of
traditonal African American families.  I have experienced my prejudices
melting away also when eating things I hadn't known were edible among
Australian Aborigines, American Indians, Inuit and Mongols.  It's easy to
overcome your fear of strange foods if the food is offered with honest
hospitality and consumed with a sense of genuine communal belonging.  But
that was in my traveling, meat-eating lifetime.

I am getting to the point where it makes no difference to me if people eat
the flesh of racoons, apes, cows, pigs or chickens.  I would never dream of
preaching about it and making people feel bad about it (despite my jocular
use of "animal corpse").  It is a personal choice, not one prescribed or
dictated by dogma, by the way, just one to which my personal path happens to
be heading.  Thank Heaven for legumes and tofu!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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