hard to describe the flavour, but the texture is something like hamburger mixed with liver, really light.
Keith Addison wrote: > Ermine is a northern stoat, the famed fur is its winter coat - > reserved for royals. You can scarf a weasel if you want, but if you > eat an ermine the King will have you drawn and quartered. Varlet. > > Re wormburgers (hey, let's try get this back on-topic!), worms are > better protein than beef. They'd be red worms (Eisenia foetida), the > ones used for composting, high-rate breeders, lots of high protein > from wastes or less (wet newspapers, eg). Not much fat in worms > though, so the resultant Big Mac WVO would be real nice for > transesterifying. The worms in the composter would thrive on the > filtered scraps and the glycerine too, lots more protein. About the > best chickenfeed going, if you prefer chickens to wormburgers. Or > ducks, fish, stoats... > > Never had a wormburger, but I've had the occasional minced worm > omelette, very nice too. Sorry 'bout that, "Dyspectic of Bognor > Regis". Hope you've had your din-dins already. :-) > > Best > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Tokyo > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > skaar wrote: > > >ermine, that's the name, i knew i was wrong. what i meant was that > the > >rat could be renamed to a more pleasant one, like the weasel was > >renamed, or is it used interchangeably? like ermine is a kind of > weasel > >but not just a plain weasel. > > > >Bryan Fullerton wrote: > > > > > Weasel is not even close to any kind of rat. It is completely > > > different. It > > > is more related to say, a mink though much smaller. Ever hear of > > > ermine? > > > Once highly prized for their extremely soft fur. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <biofuel@egroups.com> > > > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:14 AM > > > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Rat City > > > > > > > > > > i think it's called marmot, the common name is weasel, i think, > > > > remembering that type of thing ranks up there with remembering > the > > > exact > > > > colour of poop. i guess i should have remembered then. > > > > > > > > Keith Addison wrote: > > > > > > > > > >i have no doubt that rat would make a good nutritional > > > supplement, i > > > > > >suppose it would have to be renamed, like marmot. > > > > > > > > > > Rat Marmite? (Or is that an English joke? - you guys in the > > > colonies > > > > > ever heard of Marmite?) (Did I just hear 23 Australians say > > > > > "Vegemite"?) > > > > > > > > > > Anyway, I'm not so sure. They're omnivores, their diet's a bit > too > > > > > > > > all-inclusive. The omnivores and carnivores people eat are > usually > > > > > > > > raised on non-meat diets (eg Cantonese dogs, and the Thai rats > are > > > > > > > > veggies). > > > > > > > > > > That aside, you're right, and not just a supplement. Farley > Mowatt > > > > > > > > discovered in northern Canada that the wolves he was studying, > far > > > > > > > > from wiping out the caribou herds as alleged, had a summer > diet of > > > > > > > > grass rats, or something like rats. To prove it was possible > he > > > went > > > > > on the same diet himself, catching his share of rats every day > and > > > > > > > > eating them. He couldn't take the idea of eating the bones and > > > > skins > > > > > though, as the wolves did (they just gobbled them down whole), > but > > > he > > > > > stayed well-fed and healthy just the same. > > > > > > > > > > Keith Addison > > > > > Journey to Forever > > > > > Handmade Projects > > > > > Tokyo > > > > > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > that's not rat, that's NYC Chicken ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In biofuel@egroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > 50cents for every rat pelt brought in would get a lot of > > > > > > homeless > > > > > > > > involved. > > > > > > > > > eGroups Sponsor > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
