> I did eat dried termites in Ivory Coast. Bought them
> on the market, in a city of the West, wrapped in a
> neswspaper sheet. They're considered as appetizers.
> With a glass of gin-tonic, it's not that bad. Heard
> there was much proteines in them, but maybe that's a
> legend.
>
> But I could never find any snake meat in the
> country,
> although I asked many times. People invariably
> replied
> "we don't eat snakes, but the people in the next
> (village, area, region, country) do". So I ate
> monkey
> meat. It's rather dangerous, because they are known
> for carrying parasites. Anyway, it seems strange to
> have a cooked hand with forearm in your plate: by
> the
> size, it looks very much like a human child's (they
> are small monkeys, not gorillas).
>
> Good appetite to everybody.
>
> --- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> > Since we went off on a JewwieTangent not so long
> > ago, you may be
> > interested in knowing that Yemenites are the only
> > Jewish culture known
> > to still eat locusts/grasshoppers (cf. Leviticus
> > 11:21-22). Although i
> > haven't really heard of any locust-eating going on
> > in Israel. Maybe
> > they only did it back in Yemen. From what i've
> > heard, it always seemed
> > to be more of a famine necessity thing than a
> > cuisine thing.
>
>
> =====
> Philippe Caquant
>
> "He thought he saw a Rattlesnake / That questioned
> him in Greek: / He looked again, and found it was /
> The Middle of Next Week. / "The one thing I regret',
> he said, / "Is that it cannot speak !' " (Lewis
> Carroll)
>
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