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#166063 02/25/07 09:34 PM
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In the sixties, back when I styled myself into either a latter day beatnik or a new wave hippie, I ate bugs. It wasn't protein that I was seeking it was attention. Listen humans, I said, you must transcend your petty conventions and become like me...supermen!

No one listened so I ate bugs to get their attention. It worked pretty well, I got attention but none of the girls would kiss me. I didn't care. I was on a mission. I was showing society the folly of entrenched social behavior.

Most of all I ate cockroaches (they proved to be the most dramatic, the trick being to first pull off the wings). Then one night three of the girls who wouldn't kiss me and I were sitting in a booth at Ed Salem's Ice Cream Bar having sodas and a small green moth landed on our table so I ate it. Big mistake.

I turned green. Nature had endowded the little moth with a most effective defense mechanism. Teen-age boys who ate them didn't die they just suffered agonies hereto unknown to their breed, and they, like me, lived to tell others as I am telling you -- Don't eat little green moths, they taste terrible.

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#166064 02/26/07 02:16 AM
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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.


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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.




..or maybe they just look like something that tastes bad or is toxic, as the viceroy butterfly mimics the evil-tasting monarch. But it's a really good rule. Except when applied to M & M s .

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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.




Except when applied to M & M s .


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Or when applied to vegetable and floral items. The nasturtium and the squash flowers, rose and pansy are lovely of taste,non toxic and of a very vivid colouring.
But when I eat those I feel more barbaric than when I eat fish or chicken.

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Hast tried peanut butter on it? [But beware certain brands.]

Moths of any colour always seem a bit too dusty to eat.

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In the sixties, back when I styled myself into either a latter day beatnik or a new wave hippie, I ate bugs. Most of all I ate cockroaches



In the sixties, many people smoked roaches. But that is another thing entirely.


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frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.


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My food rules boil down to
1) it has to be dead.
2) it has to be FOOD not just a dare or "let's see how dumb the tourist is"

other than that I'll try it and either like it or not. I quite liked chocolate covered grasshoppers. Kind of crunchy and honey tasting.

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it has to be dead

What! No oysters?


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What about chopped-up octopus legs? They're quite dead but their metabolic functions can last quite a long time— up to 10 or so hours. Which means that they still squirm.


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