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Old 12-03-2009, 07:57 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:44:18 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Martin" wrote

Roast stuffed raphus cucullatus with sweet potatoes.

Well my sis-in-law had curried Pteropus there and loved it (until she
understood what she was eating!)


Bleaaahh!


No different from noshing octopus, squid, whelks, cockles, abalone,
mussels, etc.

I think that rabbits, hares, squirrels, hedgehogs, etc, would be a
better comparison; Pteropodes are fruit bats/flying foxes
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Stewart Robert Hinsley