In a message dated 6/18/01 10:39:39 AM CST, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< No; travelling isn't an emergency. It's a neccesity. Pemmican is what
Indians took along for the ride. And food shortages are pretty much par of
the course, whether you're talking a tribal people running low on game and
plants or a soccer mom almost out of groceries. Early people found ways to
eat some now and save some for later; soccer mom's buy big refrigerators.
Same sh*t, different millenium.
>>
I think that maybe pemmican was used also because it could keep for a long
time without spoiling....not just because of food shortage, etc.