Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part III
Everybody loves locusts, and now they're
literally falling from the sky! Pennies from Heaven!
...and I think to myself, what a wonderful
world...
Egyptian clerics like them special. We all
got needs. The al-Masri al-Yawm newspaper says that the al-Azhar Institute
has decreed that it is permitted - nay! encouraged - by Allah to eat the
yummy red desert locusts that are swarming the country. al-Azhar has urged
all Egyptians to "hunt the locusts and eat them to combat the crisis." As if
they would need encouragement. Hunt them down and eat them. Oh, if only John
Kerry had adapted that phrase, he could be president today.
But then, he would need to bring us
locusts, and we have not been so blessed.
Australia, they got 'em. Call 'em 'sky
prawns'. Yum yum yum yum. Says
here that
they got government workers putting together a cookbook called 'Cooking with
Sky Prawns', and the co-author, the suspiciously named Edward Joshua, says
that the "home delivery bush food" is nutritionally superior to beef.
Tastier too, for sure.
Here's a few recipes: locust dumplings,
chocolate-covered locusts, locust-flavoured popcorn and "Coonabarabran stir
fry. I've never been that high. Convince me, Joshua.
"If you've eaten a lobster, crab or
crayfish, you've already eaten Arthropoda, of which insects are part. So
popping a big, juicy locust in your mouth is only a step away." Okay! I'm
convinced! Lobster for the masses!
Joshua (third from left) blows his mighty
horn, driving all the tasty sky prawns out of Jericho, deeply saddening all
Jerichanians. |
