Further ingestion digression....

[mbpi at juno.com]

Since the topic of "base behavior" has further digressed to ingestion of
"butterfly larvae," let's not forget that those of us who eat pork are
susceptible to trichinosis, which as I recall on reading an article on
the subject, stated that nearly all cadavers that are autopsied have
varying degrees of the disease found in their muscle tissue (!)  It's
pretty much a given that anything that is eaten "raw" or undercooked, has
the potential to wreak untold havoc in our gut and other tissues,
depending on the where, when or what...especially for those intrepid
adventurers who eat unknown foods in foreign places.

Obviously, you gentlemen don't "cook" or buy produce or meat...otherwise
you would have, at some point in time, discovered a myriad of  unexpected
"fauna" in your groceries!  Pierid larva in brocolli is not uncommon...it
is simply unnoticed by the unobservant.  They cook up nicely with the
green florets and provide an additional protein boost!

Ingesting a caterpillar larva is small potatoes:  I once found an eyelid,
replete with eyelashes, in a lamb chop that I purchased at a grocery
store in New York.  Now THAT was GROSS!!!!  I still gag just thinking
about it...

As an interesting adjunct:  there was an article in the Chicago Tribune
Sunday Magazine just this past week, that featured a naturalist who fried
crickets and mealworms to add to "trail mix" for crunch and additional
protein.  The article further extolled the delicacies of "tomato horn
worms..." which "can be eaten raw," if one so desires.  This was a quote
from an entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey...

One last note:  the naturalist admitted to having "fried up cockroaches,"
but she never "had the nerve to actually eat them."

Gee...I wonder why not?!?!?

M.B. Prondzinski

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