Cuteness overload
- 14 May 2012 19:02172374turning into a gourmet thread now,
- 14 May 2012 19:07172377Thanks Peter - Entomophagy, that's added a word to my vocabulary. Literally insect eating.
I thought you might like to know that I have reprint of an 1885 book by Vincent Holt called 'Why Not Eat Insects?'. To quote a typical passage:
"The Rev. R. Sheppard many years ago, had some of our common grasshoppers served up at his table, according to the recipe used by the inhabitants of Morocco in the cooking of their favourite locusts. Here it is: 'Having plucked off their heads, legs and wings, sprinkle them with pepper and salt and chopped parsley, fry in butter, and add some vinegar.' He found them excellent."
Later in the book slug soup is advocated.
If you wish I can lend it to you so you can invent a radically different Nouvelle Cuisine for Blakes. I agree though, butterflies would not be good to eat, but could serve a function as decorative garnish. With cabbage, they come ready supplied.
- 14 May 2012 19:10172378I have always wanted to try locust. I once found a dead one in our swimming pool in Riyadh but HiD vetoed the project.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 14 May 2012 19:48172382They are about as un-political as it gets Kath!
Ewwww can't say I've ever wanted to eat an insect
- 15 May 2012 06:24172425Along with Bwian this guy below would probably want to eat the bwunny wabbits..
Taken at the Sandwich fair on sunday, there was a collection of about a dozen Owls of all sorts in one tented display. This guy looked a mean customer, well used to crowds clearly, not the least bit overawed by his starring role on perch one
Slight photographic regret..tip: I should have got down lower with the camera so that the background was all white
ps: more Sandwich pictures on the frontpage if you havent seen them yet.email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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15 May 2012 07:14172428lovely pics jeane
of course we expect nothing else from our brian lolALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Brian Dixon
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15 May 2012 07:50172435what are you trying to say kieth,i am still on war time rations.and its all fair game. - Keith Sansum1
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15 May 2012 08:21172455think other posters have summed it upALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Brian Dixon
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15 May 2012 09:44172478if you mean cute kieth they are just so,i am tounge in cheek on this one.i hope you can reconnize that kieth.
- 15 May 2012 11:06172490Tongue?
Cheek?
You...you omnivores...you'll...you'll eat anything!Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 15 May 2012 11:38172494Love your photos of the bunnies Jeane, can't bear to think of them in a stewpot, they are so so cute
Thats a mean looking owl above there PaulB, good front page of the 250th Birthday of the sandwich. I hope the 11th Earl of Montagu's lunch consisted of sandwiches in keeping with the day, probably of the club sandwich variety and not the humble sandwich kind. Interesting figures too, 300,000 employed in this industry and a commercial value of £6bn. Food for thought, I think I'll consider a sandwich business - 15 May 2012 12:04172503i do like owls they are very photogenic.
years ago i went to an event where this bloke kept owls and he suggested that i pick this massive one up,i forget the type of owl.
anyway as i grabbed it i discoverd it was about 90% feather and very little actual owl, would never have made a decent meal for brian. - 15 May 2012 14:46172518I remember taking the girls down to the Hythe Regatta when they were quite young and we came across a chap with some owls and he promtly placed a tawny owl on Saskia's head. Trouble was he was none to pleased and it took an age disentangling Saskia and said owl from her tresses
He was very apologetic about it and so was said owl, Happy Days - Brian Dixon
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15 May 2012 14:49172519ooooooooooooooh pick on brian day is it.
