More South African problems.

Post #402,224 by Andrew Grygus 5/31/15 8:32:33 PM Reply	More South African problems. That cookbook about early Dutch cuisine in South Africa had already caused me to add porcupines to my Rodents & Rabbits page. I was wondering if I should add Dassie Rats (not actually rats) since they ate those too. This caused me to seriously review the whole page, and I found it badly needed to be reorganized. In reorganizing, it got expanded even more. Rodents & Rabbits.
Post #402,263 by Andrew Grygus 6/1/15 11:29:12 PM Reply	Well, once I got the rodent page up . . . . . I realized I had the wrong Dassie. The one I wanted was the Rock Hyrax, a much meatier critter - but I had no place to put it. After some study, I decided the only reasonable course was to compose a page for culinary Afrotheres. Afrotheres is a new superorder put in place around 1996 when it was found that aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, dugongs, manatees, tenrecs and elephant shrews all had a common ancestor, no matter how absurd that seemed. Afrotheres
Post #402,264 by drook 6/1/15 11:47:51 PM Reply	Now you're just making up names ... or you found a Dr. Seuss cookbook -- Drew
Post #402,266 by boxley 6/2/15 1:01:51 AM Reply	well he better hide that manatee cookbook Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #402,275 by a6l6e6x 6/2/15 9:38:03 AM Reply	Well, I wish the prairie dogs were not so abundant in Canada. A campground near Edmonton, Alberta where we stayed was just riddled with their burrows. It drove our dog crazy to watch them (through the screen door) pop their head out of a hole. Had to keep closing the outer door to get some peace. Taking the dog for a walk wasn't fun either. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #402,288 by Andrew Grygus 6/2/15 2:25:45 PM Reply	What you folks need to do . . . . . is set up an industry to harvest them and sell the meat. If the price is high enough, the advertising worded right, and you bribe a celebrity TV chef to endorse it, the yuppies will buy it.
Post #402,291 by drook 6/2/15 2:35:57 PM Reply	Needs a new name Chilean Field Hare Rocky Mountain Roughy Colorado Hound Hmm, I'm guessing you know about this list of FDA-approved seafood names? http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=seafoodlist -- Drew
Post #402,293 by Andrew Grygus 6/2/15 2:56:05 PM Reply	FDA Names "Hmm, I'm guessing you know about this list of FDA-approved seafood names? http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=seafoodlist" Yes, but I haven't used it for years. The Asian markets where I buy fish definitely have no knowledge of FDA names. A list without pictures is useless to me, and they don't list enough fish anyway. I use Fishbase.org which lists over 33,000 fish species and has multiple photos of most of them.
Post #402,294 by a6l6e6x 6/2/15 3:58:23 PM Reply	But, not Rocky Mountain Oysters! That name is taken. :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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