I feel like if it has legs to run away from you with, it's no longer strictly "foraging."
I agree. To be fair, the book doesn't claim to be a howto for "foraging," specifically, but rather on how to get one's food from the wild. Presumably including fishing and hunting. (There are chapters on both.)
How hungry did their ancestors have to be, to think, "Hm, when I boil this the fifth time, it's not quite as disgusting as the first four times around!"
SERIOUSLY. Gibbons claims it's tasty after the second hour of boiling. I don't see me ever finding out. (Although come to think of it, somewhere like Whole Foods probably has acorn meal for sale for $63 per pound.)
It says they were thinking about putting up "Git off mah lawn, you little punks!" -type signs, but then decided that that would just tell the foragers where all the good spots were...
Bwahahaha! Perhaps they should just plant a bunch of poisonous plants instead...
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Date: 2011-08-15 01:32 am (UTC)My reaction exactly!
I feel like if it has legs to run away from you with, it's no longer strictly "foraging."
I agree. To be fair, the book doesn't claim to be a howto for "foraging," specifically, but rather on how to get one's food from the wild. Presumably including fishing and hunting. (There are chapters on both.)
How hungry did their ancestors have to be, to think, "Hm, when I boil this the fifth time, it's not quite as disgusting as the first four times around!"
SERIOUSLY. Gibbons claims it's tasty after the second hour of boiling. I don't see me ever finding out. (Although come to think of it, somewhere like Whole Foods probably has acorn meal for sale for $63 per pound.)
It says they were thinking about putting up "Git off mah lawn, you little punks!" -type signs, but then decided that that would just tell the foragers where all the good spots were...
Bwahahaha! Perhaps they should just plant a bunch of poisonous plants instead...