Lois yells out "Eddie Eddie"

[oneighty]

"EDDIE DON'T EAT THE CATerpillerrrr......."

Lois was six years old and I was two years old.

It was sixty-eight years ago plus or minus a few months. Now and then over the years she asks, "Eddie what did it taste like?"

"I do not remember Lois."

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[Mz Pip]

1. Probably better that you don't

Yuck.

When my son was 18 months old he used to eat garden snails, shell and all. The first time he did it I scooped it out of his mouth. It was so gross that after that I didn't try. He survived and still likes to try new and unusual foods.

MzPip
:dem:

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. Eddie---

go out in the yard and eat a small caterpillar

I think Lois deserves an answer after all of these years

[oneighty]

3. Amoebic Dysentery

Can be found in some garden snails. Your little one is fortunate. Next time he be wise to cook them first, as the Brave Frenchmen do!

They gotta be brave to eat snails!

Also male snails do their birds and bees thing by firing a 'dart' into the female. I happen to know that because the Ex-Nun at the University did a paper on the subject. It was not much later she left the Nun service.

Isn't that interesting?

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[JitterbugPerfume]

4. yes that is interesting, Eddie

you know about the neatest stuff!!

[bubblesby2002]

5. Hi oneighty:

How the heck are you? :hi:

I didn't eat a caterpillar, but I did once eat a green grub that came cooked with some garden fresh broccoli. Or should I say I ate half of a green grub worm. And I can still remember it tasted like broccoli and butter and lemon. But the texture - bleeccccccchhhhhh. I didn't eat broccoli for a long time.

[oneighty]

6. Hey bubblesby2002

How are you doing? Just goes to show "You are what you eat."

On the Minesweeper one time we all be eating little grubs hiding in the salads.

I stopped one of the officers passing through the crew's mess, "Hey" I say. "Look what we got in our salad." Well he looks real close says "We got them in the wardroom too."

I felt a lot better. If the skipper can eat them I can too.

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[trof]

7. I have eaten bugs.

We were at an outdoor hibachi place in Japan.
We had consumed several Asahi beers.
A large grasshopper landed on our table. I grabbed him, dunked him in teriyaki sauce, and popped him on the grill.
Crunchy.

Hi Ed.
:hi:

[oneighty]

8. Asahi Beer?

Isn't that the beer that taste like Skunk Pee? After drinking that one can eat anything.

Hey Trof how you be surviving?

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[trof]

9. No, Kirin is the one that tastes like skunk pee.

Asahi tastes like 4-day-old grits.
Pretty good for a geezer, thanks.
:-)

[oneighty]

10. Ahhhhhh! Kirin

Been so long I say, but I can close my eyes and still taste that horrible beer.

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[trof]

11. And those were the good ones.

We drank some kinda crap that I think was Chinese beer.
No Engrish on the label.
Came in a dark brown bottle, because if you ever poured it in a glass it was green.
phew

[texas1928]

13. Ok I have to ask

How do you know what skunk pee tastes like?

[trof]

15. It's a long story.

They told me it was Ouzo.
;-)

[texas1928]

18. I hope youa re not friends with them anymore.

They sound kind of mean. I would not do that to my friends. Thought I got my best friend to try Alum when we were growing up.

[oneighty]

24. Boy I thought no one would ever ask.

One day my dog 'Doctor Pushkin' ran a-foul of a skunk. Later on he say,"Eddie, my sweet master, skunk pee taste just like Kirin beer."

Now if you do not believe me you go ask Doctor Pushkin, he be glad to tell you so too.

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[texas1928]

27. Well that is one of those things that you here that it is kind of like...

Uh we have to have the full story on this one.

[trof]

12. Couple more "Jack" stories over here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1415002#1418263

[texas1928]

14. My sister when we were growing up

Ate a sow bug, what we called rollie pollies when we were younger. on a dare.

[trof]

16. Roly-Polys

(or however you spell it)
Never heard 'em called sow bugs.
We used to stick a broom straw down a roly-poly hole and say "roly-poly, roly-poly, roly-poly" and they'd come out.

[texas1928]

17. you mean doodle bugs

the make the indentions in the loose dirt. We would take our fingers
and spin them around and say "Doodle bug, doodle bug your house is on fire, your house is on fire, come out, come out."

[trof]

19. Yeah!

Doodle bugs.
sam ting roly-poly?

[texas1928]

22. They eat ants

We used to put ants in their holes and watch them take them down. it was fun.

this is what we called Doodle Bugs

[texas1928]

25. I had to call my mother and ask her what they were really called

They are called ant lions and turn in to a fly that has very lacy wings. They eat ants and a aphids. they were fun to watch and mess with.

[texas1928]

20. This is what we refered to as Rollie Pollies

cause they roll up in to a ball. They are also called pill bugs.

[trof]

21. That's them.

Now I don't remember what doodle bugs were.
It's bad to get old.

[trof]

23. Dear Ed,

I am sorry we turned this into a doodle-bug, roly-poly thread.
Your Friend,
trof
:-(

[oneighty]

26. Hey Trof

this is lotta fun. I be thinking what you be calling "Rolly Pollys" was what we northern ones thought might be them Yankee Armodiller thingies. Doodle Bugs be the ones push around little balls of poop. Their little babies grow up in that poop stuff.

My grandchildrens be too grown up now to write about anymore so I been thinking about going into adult stuff, speaking of which how you like my book?

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[JitterbugPerfume]

28. is that te same bug my daddy

used to call a stink bug?


he used to say

If I was a little stink bug

in a real nice nasty place

I would eat my little belly full

and rub some on my face


daddy was weird sometimes but he lived to be ninty five

[oneighty]

29. No Jitterbug

Stink bug is a lot different.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

30. OK

I wasn't much into bugs when I was little girl although I did like grass hoppers

[loftycity]

31. One Eighty just read your story

I read your story to a friend of my while he is traveling... he got a great laugh.
You are my favorite!

[oneighty]

32. It is pleasing to cause

laughter loftycity.

Thanks for your kind remarks.

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