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"Why not eat insects?" - was Which tree and where?
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Mary Fisher wrote: 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? Because it would remind me of school dinners onion soup ;-) You had soup at school? There's posh! Well, lass, to as young and innocent as you, maybe. But to someone of my era and background, not quite! At the other end of the scale from posh, soup is traditionally used for the following purposes: To make a very small amount of food go a long way, by the use of a large amount of water and (if you have it) some form of starch. To make some use of the ingredients that are unpalatable or even actually uneatable. Skin, bones, woody vegetables etc. To hide the fact that you are reusing leftovers of the sort that would traditionally have been fed to the pigs. To this day, I can remember those soups. Actually, I didn't mind them much, though I wasn't keen on almost unflavoured flour paste, but posh they weren't! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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