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Skriven 2007-05-28 14:39:56 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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Hi Michael                 5/28/07 1:29 PM

ml-> Who wants to go to Philly? Or, more exactly, who wants to join
ml-> me there for a deep dark adventure?
ml->  Chapulines

I'm not trying to ruin on your parade.  This short article only mentions
children and not adults.   Just in case anyone gets children involved I
offer this:
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The Beat
edited by Erin E. Dooley
Lead-Laden Snack Alert
chapulines
Chapulines (grasshoppers) seasoned with chili powder and lime are a popular
snack with many Mexicans. Now state and federal health departments have
issued warnings against eating chapulines from the Mexican state of Oaxaca
because many, for reasons yet unknown, contain dangerously high
concentrations of the neurotoxicant lead--as high as 2,300 µg/g in some
samples, or nearly six times the tolerable daily intake for a young child.
The FDA recommends that parents of children who have eaten chapulines
contact their health care provider to see if testing for lead poisoning is
warranted. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

If it weren't so far for a strange adventure we would join you.  We had
fried ants and 'hoppers way long ago at an Young Adult Group meeting in
Newark. The group but not the time where I was introduced to Shirley.  

The Assistant Director of the Community Center, a young girl named ?? 
brought them from a trip to some nearby cosmopolitan area..... come to
think of it, it must have been far away.  [g]   

Butch and I both ate what  she had, but I don't remember the taste too
clearly, just the crunch and old oil taste of the hoppers.  I suspect
freshly fried ones would have a taste I would remember.  The ants were
chocolate covered and the coco flavor is all I remember of those.


Burt

Her name was Dotty.

[Her name popped up from long term memory when I thought of fried ants, but
dropped quickly from short term memory.  Damn!]
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