Never heard of it (CAN only, prob’ly) but I love “Monsieur Globetrotteur.” Great name.

Friar,

How are those old frostbite-bugaboos treating you?

Bugaboos. Heh. A “bugaboo” is a “minor problem,” where I come from. Always thought it must be a word from Australia. Kangaroos, bugaboos…

Must stop before my delightful Canadian readers think I’m a goofball.

Which I am.

Later,

Kelly

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It’s funny you know – I went looking one time to find a diet I could eat that consisted of 10 things or less that I could grow myself. Potatoes were a big part of it – peas too, some beans – chickens (for eggs mostly).

I believe potatoes are the #4 most important source of calories worldwide (after rice and a couple of other things, soybeans I think and I forget the third – corn or wheat maybe).

Oh yeah… not only did the train leave the station, it left the tracks and is flying through space.

Anyone remember an animated show called The Secret Railroad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Voyages_du_tortillard

That train did that. Cool show.

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I give up on following this train of comments. Y’all left the station ages ago.

Later…

I read something interesting about overfishing. We started with the largest fish, then the next largest, etc. – going down the food chain.

Now we’re finding in some places that the *jellyfish* are taking over, and they’re changing the chemical makeup of the waters where they live. In some places it is believed that the seas resemble the primordial waters from billions of years ago now.

So what are the fishermen doing? Catching and selling jellyfish! People do eat them in Asia, and they reproduce like crazy, so some folks are thinking that in 20 years time, that’s all we’ll have left to eat from the sea.

My kids will be telling their kids, “children – eat your jellyfish or there’s no ice cream!”

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Codfish used to be the big thing in Eastern Canada. But that got fished out in Eastern Canada. So now the they’re after turbot (which used to be considered a garbage fish).

What happens when turbots get over fished? Maybe we’ll go after Sculpin.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sculpin_in_hand.JPG

Once we run out of that, mabye the next big thing will be Krill or something. And so on…and so on…

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Exactly – funny how that worked out, eh? Remember when the aristocracy used to use aluminum cutlery before a cheap process was developed to refine it? I suppose if you showed people from the 19th century plastic forks, they’d probably pay you handsomely for them

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Lobster was considered “Garbage fish” for the longst time. They used to bury it in gardens as fertiziler.

I spoke to my Mom’s friend. He’s in his 70’s and grew up in Cape Breton. He told me the rich kids would bring sandwhiches to school made from store-bought bread and Bologna and tuna. The poor fishermens kids would have home-baked-bread and lobster sandwiches.

He said imagine how much a fresh-baked lobster sammitch would cost TODAY?

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Can’t help it, I’m half-Irish… heh heh

Not that I don’t like the meat, but I can’t fight my DNA!

Lobster though – I will eat it, but it’s one of those funny things that makes me go “hmm”. Two reasons why – first, it’s basically a big sea-spider with an extra set of legs, and second – ask anyone who grew up in Newfoundland in the 40’s or 50’s.

Lobster was what poor people ate because they couldn’t afford chicken or beef – anyone could catch bottom feeding sea-spiders. So literally if you brought lobster to school people laughed at you and called you poor.

Kind of a funny example of supply and demand, eh?

Reminds me of something else – diamonds vs. gold or platinum. I saw an advert for precious metals once, and it was quite clever and true. All the gold, all the platinum, silver etc. – guess what? It was made at the dawn of time, in the stars. We ain’t making any more of it, err, until we can get some really cheap high-powered accelerators. But diamonds? Feh. We can make those, and we can make them *better* than mother nature can. So the precious metals guys were basically poo-pooing diamonds.

So if anyone is reading this, your diamonds are worthless chunks of transmuted carbon. Please send them to me and I will dispose of them for you…

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awww…POTATOES?

Forget about the cheap starch fillers (noodles, rice, potatoes). That’s what they WANT you to fill up on (to make money).

When I’m at a buffet, I strategically target the expensive proteins (Seafood, steak, chicken, fish).

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