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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Watched a good documentary last night about the Nile River,
> starting from it's source near the equator and flowing north.
> It's interesting and I recommend watching it.
> It's a river series - next one is about the Amazon River.
> I do hope the series has the Yukon River too.
>
> Anyway, somewhere along the Nile, they showed native fellows
> catching thousands of swarming flies in fine-mesh nets.
>
> They took them home and smashed them all into mush, then
> formed them into patties. Fried them in fat and ate them
> just like hamburgers. >;-O
>
> The final note was that fly burgers contain 5X the protein
> as beef burgers.
>
> I do hope that what happens in Africa stays in Africa. heh heh


Um... Ick!