The Funny Bone
From John Nunley <nun...@goodnet.com>
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· 8 Dec 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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"The Early American Pioneer Cookbook"
LOCUST STEW: Boil Rocky Mountain locusts in salted water. Add assort-
ed cut-up vegetables, butter, salt and vinegar to the
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/\OOOO()= a thick soup or over boiled rice as a main dish.
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Makes you wonder if they had Locust Helper?
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`\.===. \.^./ .===./` ROASTED BEETLE CRUBS:
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, | | , Feed the larvae on coconut
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FRIED CACTUS CATERPILLARS: jgs ^ "" "" "" "" "" ""
Caterpillars of skipper butterflies, which live on the maguey cactus,
are toasted or fried and eaten with mescal as "caterpillar pretzels".
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'.__.' RED ANT CHUTNEY:
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'._ .::. _.' Ants are collected in leaf cups and put
_'(^^)'_ directly into the hot ashes of the fire
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,567b6d5d0bd9a9d7,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: John Nunley <nun...@goodnet.com> Subject: The Funny Bone Date: 1997/12/08 Message-ID: <348...@goodnet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 296237908 Organization: GoodNet Reply-To: nun...@goodnet.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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