In article
>,
Dan Abel > wrote:

> In article >,
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
> > Omelet wrote:
> > > "Storrmmee" > wrote:
> > >
> > >> nutrea sweet strikes again ...
> > >
> > > And remember please that it's nutra-sweet or aspartame.
> > >
> > > A Nutrea is an aquatic rodent. ;-) Related distantly to beavers.
> >
> > I wonder if nutrea is what I would call muskrat. I know there are some
> > in my neighborhood because one got caught in my back yard fence a few
> > years ago. We now have beavers as well. A few more trees came down
> > in the park near the city hall.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria
>
> "The coypu (from the Mapudungun, koypu)[2][3] or nutria (Myocastor
> coypus), is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member
> of the family Myocastoridae."
>
> "Coypu can also be mistaken for another widely dispersed semi-aquatic
> rodent that occupies the same wetland habitats, the muskrat."
>
> ObFood: Meat from the Nutria is edible, but nobody wants to eat it.

How in hell did this go from a Jell-O salad to rodents?

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Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
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