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"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
In message , Mary Fisher
writes I've eaten insects both knowingly and unknowingly but I know a ten year old girl who cooked and ate (with relish - not the sauce type) a dish of earthworms. She was one of several military family children who were learning about survival. And why not? We once got a long, bright green caterpillar in with our bright green Birds Eye frozen peas. The children were about 4 and 5 then - can you imagine the consternation and then the glee? And the letter I wrote to Birds Eye about the free protein they were putting in with their peas. I seem to remember that finding half a caterpillar in school salads was a fairly frequent occurrence .......... Of course it's not April 1st, and the little book was written in all seriousness. My edition is a 1978 reprint of the 1885 original. I *think* that the original aim of the book can be neatly summed up in the following excerpt - "Yet in the country the poorer labourers and their families go on week after week, attempting to keep body and soul together with nothing but bread, varied, if possible, by the addition of a taste of bacon, while hundreds of nutritious and wholesome snails and slugs swarm at night upon the little cottage garden. Why this wanton and reckless waste of food? Prejudice, foolish prejudice! Half the poor of England would actually die of starvation before stretching out their hands to gather the plentiful molluscus food which their neighbours in France delight in." I don't think I need to say anything more ...... -- Susie Thompson SPAM BLOCK IN OPERATION! Replace "deadspam.com" with "arrandragons.co.uk" to reply by e-mail. |
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