Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 00:50:53 2001

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Ernest wrote:

>
>
> > 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.
>

Where on your scale do you put horse meat? The French love it.

                                                 - don
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