Lets get Mikey, he'll eat anything___part 2

PETA to the rescue! Leaps to defense of ‘gentle’ cockroaches in Six Flags promotion
By Jessica FargenBoston Herald Health & Medical Reporter

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want all Six Flags theme parks, including the one in Massachusetts, to exterminate an upcoming cockroach-eating extravaganza.

“Cockroaches have been given a bad (reputation) in our society,” said PETA spokeswoman Jackie Vergerio. “They are gentle, complex animals.”

Yeah well, so are pigs, and if God didn't want them to get eaten he wouldn't have made them so tasty. Not that I'm comparing a nice cut of ham with a cockroach. Anyway, the road I'm taking on this post is not about bashing PETA again (which I normally love to do); but it's about people who enjoy eating cockroaches.

I've often wondered about people's tastes in food. We all have the same basic taste receptors on our tongue---i.e. sweet, sour, bitter, salty---so why is it that there is such a discrepency re: taste in food? I'm not going to provide any answers; I don't have the time to take a college level course and learn about all the factors of biology and sociology that may go into determining what we like to eat.

The main point I want to hit is: Good God man, who would want to eat a bleeping cockroach; or, as we learned in a previous post---eat maggots, scorpions, big-butt queen ants, etc etc ad nauseum? I don't even like to eat chicken most of the time, which puts a burr up Mocha-mommas behind (she loves chicken) I like KFC original, and I'll usually eat drumsticks, especially barbecue; but she'll eat it any way whatsoever and is on the lookout for new recipes all the time.

When I was at the Air Force Academy, we heard stories of pilots shot down who survived for weeks having to eat this kind of stuff; but we're talking life and death here, not---I enjoy the taste of maggots. I could maybe eat it if it meant living a little longer. I'm a comfort food man, just feed me what I grew up on. I'm not an adventurous gourmand. This all leads me to one of my all-time favorite quotes. It involves the Chinese, and their penchant for eating things that for most of us our first thought would be what kind of pesticide to use, not---how shall we cook it up. The person quoted is Prince Phillip of England, or Queen Elizabeth's husband if you prefer.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. -- (as spoken at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)