I don't think all the ants, worms, grasshoppers, etc. I've eaten went to the bathroom before I ate them. Bees poop honey. lol If the maggot cheese stinks, though, I'll pass.
The Foods We Eat and what they can do.
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Well, protein based bug is not the same as mud, but I would eat neither, also. I just don't like eating thinks that make my nose cringe.
lol Yup.
Forgot to mention the original "viagra" from China. That involves eating the gall bladder and a healthy dose of blood from a live wiggling cobra. Very popular in Hong Kong last time I was there back in '94. No, I didn't have any...didn't need it and certainly didn't want it! Are we all getting hungry yet?
Must be a guy thing. I wouldn't have any use for it. But, if it didn't stink, I would try it.
Good grief, glad I decided to have a vegetarian dinner tonight - all this talk of stinky cheese, bugs, guts, swamps, etc. kind of puts me off the old protein for tonight. LOL!
Hey, wait a minute now...I could be wrong (I often am) but don't bees PUKE honey? In other words, regurgitate it? Mind you, I'm not sure there is a palatable difference between puke and poop anyway.
We'd better get off this or Mowich will give up eating altogether! Prairie Oysters, anyone?
No, no, no - you guys just keep on going. I have to go see a friend about a smoke. ;-)
Roast elk?!? Now I'm jealous, not to mention hungry. Reminds me of the good old days in Manitoba when we used to hunt it and eat it...ahh, those elk cutlets were the finest meat I've ever eaten. Please enjoy the elk tonight!
And what about that honey question...do they puke or poop it out? Now I'm curious...(I'll still eat honey no matter from whence it exits the bee)
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So collector bees go eat nectar and put it in their honey tummies. Then worker bees suck it out and chew on it and then puke it up and cap it with wax.
...and now the mystery is solved! Thanks for checking that out - sounds like a hell of a lot of work to make honey but I'm glad they're up for it.
At the other end of the scale, I do remember a beekeeper once told me that honey bees can only poop when they're flying, so I guess it makes sense that honey would come out of the other end...it would be tough collecting it otherwise.
He also told me a story about how they reproduce, which is both tragic and interesting...ah, what the heck, let's go for it...here it is, and apparently true...the male bees (the drones?) that fertilize the queen (I think it's the queen) do so by mounting her from the back. When the "act" is completed, the male bee leans back, his penis falls off, and he dies. Jeez, talk about a dramatic climax! My partner Terri, who was listening to this story at the same time, told me later that she was amused by the fact that I crossed my legs when the beekeeper told us that one. (Can you blame me or any other male?)
Thanks again for the honey info!
There's a place here in NB where they make sheep's milk cheese...a family from France, and it's really good. I think some times you can buy it in Toronto.
Sounds like another one of Canada's many good food secrets. And I'll bet that cheese is great stuff. I believe Gort's Gouda is run by a Dutch family. It would be interesting to see how many other "pure food" secrets are out there in other parts of the country, eh? With the variety of cultures and backgrounds in Canada, there must be thousands of these places around.
No poo at the bottom of beehives, but rotting old beewieners. hmmmm
I've said a couple things that made my hubby cross his, too.
It has a fairly strong flavour, a bit more 'earthy' than goats cheese, but I enjoyed it in moderate doses. With good wine, of course.
For 'everyday' eating, nothing beats a good old cheddar - back in the early 70s, there was a little Black Diamond cheese plant north of Belleville, Ont; you could watch through the window as they messed around with the curds and whey.
No poo at the bottom of beehives, but rotting old beewieners. hmmmm
I've said a couple things that made my hubby cross his, too.
I think they do it in mid-air (Gawd, I guess they do EVERYTHING on the fly) so I don't think you'd find any of the body parts in the beehive. At least, I don't think so...never checked!
The Foods We Eat & What They Can Do...this is a BIG subject! And an important one...
"You are what you eat" is an old expression with perhaps even more meaning today than ever before. As time goes on, we (Canada and the U.S.) are consuming more bad food or non-food products than at any time in the past. And the results are beginning to show in a big, bad way...including obesity, diabetes on the rampage, and a lot more.
So if we're collectively getting bigger and sicker, it might stand to reason that it has something to do with what we're shoving down our throats every day. Things like fast food, packaged and processed ready-to-eat items, GMO fruits and veggies, and meat that is not "right."
We tend to think that "if it's on the shelf, it must be OK to eat" and that's a big mistake. Government standards have little or nothing to do with the long-term impact of food on health...they have everything to do with bacteria, Mad Cow, and other "instant impact" issues. If they really got into the "meat of it" (pun intended), would they allow things like trisodium phosphate (TSP - a chemical cleaner) in certain breakfast cereals? Or butane in certain fast foods like a certain popular nugget-shaped poultry product? (It's there to prevent the gross fat from going rancid as it gets shipped all over the continent) Or margarines that are a molecule away from being plastic (A test - put some margarine outside your door in bug season and see what happens. Lo and behold, next morning it will be bug-free. Why? Cause the bugs will only go after FOOD - they can't and don't read deceptive advertising slogans)...and there is much more; in fact, the horror stories are pretty much everywhere you look.
The food marketers add to the fun by pushing the envelope on the messages they're delivering to the consumer. What's with all the low-fat, low-carb, low-whatever messages? You need fat to live! (The right kind of fats, of course) And carbs are pretty necessary too. And so on...
So what is one to do if they want to "eat right?"
Educate yourself, first and foremost. There is enough info. out there to put together a pretty decent picture of what's good and what's not.
It's hard work, but it's worth it. It's also pretty interesting once you get going on it. And, most of all, it could make your life a lot healthier, happier, and tastier.
What do you think?
"You are what you eat" is an old expression with perhaps even more meaning today than ever before. As time goes on, we (Canada and the U.S.) are consuming more bad food or non-food products than at any time in the past. And the results are beginning to show in a big, bad way...including obesity, diabetes on the rampage, and a lot more.
So if we're collectively getting bigger and sicker, it might stand to reason that it has something to do with what we're shoving down our throats every day. Things like fast food, packaged and processed ready-to-eat items, GMO fruits and veggies, and meat that is not "right."
We tend to think that "if it's on the shelf, it must be OK to eat" and that's a big mistake. Government standards have little or nothing to do with the long-term impact of food on health...they have everything to do with bacteria, Mad Cow, and other "instant impact" issues. If they really got into the "meat of it" (pun intended), would they allow things like trisodium phosphate (TSP - a chemical cleaner) in certain breakfast cereals? Or butane in certain fast foods like a certain popular nugget-shaped poultry product? (It's there to prevent the gross fat from going rancid as it gets shipped all over the continent) Or margarines that are a molecule away from being plastic (A test - put some margarine outside your door in bug season and see what happens. Lo and behold, next morning it will be bug-free. Why? Cause the bugs will only go after FOOD - they can't and don't read deceptive advertising slogans)...and there is much more; in fact, the horror stories are pretty much everywhere you look.
The food marketers add to the fun by pushing the envelope on the messages they're delivering to the consumer. What's with all the low-fat, low-carb, low-whatever messages? You need fat to live! (The right kind of fats, of course) And carbs are pretty necessary too. And so on...
So what is one to do if they want to "eat right?"
Educate yourself, first and foremost. There is enough info. out there to put together a pretty decent picture of what's good and what's not.
It's hard work, but it's worth it. It's also pretty interesting once you get going on it. And, most of all, it could make your life a lot healthier, happier, and tastier.
What do you think?
Sheep milk is even finer and sweeter than goat and more easily digestible. There is a sheep dairy farm just north of Winlaw that I worked at for a while. The woman there makes cheese. Very mild and creamy. The milk is as close to mother's milk as it gets.