Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

From: Ernest <ernestls_at_attbi.com>
Date: Thu Dec 13 23:56:54 2001

> As I child I visited some of my hilljack relatives in the Appalachians and
> saw them eat these rodents. They especially enjoyed eating the brains.
> Blechhhh . . . rats with furry tails . . . recent research has also found
> evidence of a mad-cow-like disease which is carried in squirrel brains . .

I think that economics has a lot to do with why "hillbilly's" eat things
that
I would never dream of. Maybe it's just that they don't know that eating
brain
matter is completely gross -along with tongue, liver, kidney, feet, gizzard,
snout,
tail, eye, head, stomach, or testicles. Big shiver. Many meat eating
Europeans will gladly
gobble up all the brain and tongue matter that you can put in front of them.
I'm
not sure if they were always like that, or if they learned to enjoy
by-products
because of the food shortages during and after WWII -a person will learn to
enjoy
eating dirt if they become hungry enough, for long enough. Even I will eat
sausage
from time to time, and I'm not even starving. I draw the line at baloney
though
(finger holds lips closed as cheeks balloon outward.)

If you'll eat brain, you'll probably eat pickled anus on a stick to.

E.
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 23:56:54 GMT