Let's get Mikey; he'll eat anything

From News of the Weird (go to link on right)

Leave No Animal Uneaten: Colombia's exports of "hormiga culona" ("big-butt queen ants") are down this year due to a harsh winter and aggressive lizards and birds, creating steep prices for chocolate-dipped ants in London and ant-based sauces and spreads at home, according to an August Associated Press dispatch.

In related news: PETA recently announced that Pamela Anderson was signing on to do some public service announcements to speak out against KFC and it's terror campaign against the chickens of the world. Their next project is going to be signing up Jennifer Lopez in their campaign to halt the chocolatization of ''big-butt queen ants." A spokesman for PETA is quoted as saying, "Who better to speak out for the rights of big-butt queen ants than the queen of big-butt hip-hop artists?" The spokesman went on to compare the bugocide of big-butt queen ants with the victims of the holocaust.

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And a July Reuters story on the Explorers Club in New York City called it virtually the only place where gourmets can enjoy such delicacies as scorpion, cricket, tarantula and maggot, and pigeon pate, as well as odd parts of common livestock. Worms are also prized if they've been "evacuated" on oatmeal for a few days before serving. [USA Today-AP, 8-14-06] [Reuters, 7-6-06]

For those of you who visit Cathy in the Wright, you'll know what I mean when I wonder if she has a part-time job supplying the Explorers Club. We're having dinner with her family in a few weeks to meet and get to know each other, since she was unable to attend the last MOB event; I'm glad we chose a Mexican restaurant in Buffalo versus having dinner at her place, I may have been wondering. Just kidding Cathy. You know, if people who eat this kind of stuff were to tell me that it tastes like chicken, I'd have to tell them that doesn't help, because I don't like chicken. If it tasted like a big rack of barbecued beef ribs, maybe I'd try it.