Hi,

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:25:53 AM, shaun wrote:

> As an archaeologist in Australia I travel about a bit in Aboriginal
> communities, and from time to time have eaten some of the most disgusting
> sounding things imaginable.

> I have eaten Witchety Grubs (big thick grubs about the size of a mans
> thumb - taste like almonds though), bats, kangaroo intestine, goanna, emu,
> numerous other grubs and ants, bush turkeys, snake, numerous types of
> native fruits etc etc...

> Most of it was great...

what a hero! You must make a contribution to the next edition of
Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany, which is a popular book about,
well, food and drink.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747566542/026-7267103-3186036

I can't remember the details, but there is one section which tells you
what things other things taste like, e.g. wichety grubs taste like
almonds, cyanide tastes like almonds, almonds taste like something
else, which in turn tastes like grasshoppers, etc. I've only glanced
at it really, but I got the impression that if you resolve all the
crossing lines and exclude the middle, everything tastes like chicken.

-- 
Cheers,
 Bob

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