On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:25:29 GMT, Frogleg > wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:55:30 -0800, Dr Pepper >
>wrote:
>
>>When ever I see lobster here, it makes me wonder about the first guy
>>who picked on of these up on the coast of Maine or somewhere, and
>>decided to eat it.
>
>Never mind lobsters, what about raw oysters? I love 'em, but I can
>easily imagine gnawing tree bark in preference to being the first
>person to try one.

Whether the Brits ate them or not, I feel sure the French were pulling
lobsters out of the Channel long before Columbus.

Whoever ate mollusks and crustaceans first was probably a
hunter-gatherer who routinely ate grubs and bugs anyway. Think of the
trouble he saved if he could grab one huge arthropod instead of
hundreds of little ones.

Michener's novel Chesapeake begins with a young outcast from an Indian
tribe observing a Great Blue Heron stabbing and eating a crab. He
then decides to try one himself.



Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC J36 Gjo/a


The sound of a Great Blue Heron's wingbeats going by your head