In a message dated 12/29/01 4:30:55 AM, Wally Ballou <[log in to unmask]>
writes:

<< I know that you always try to make it into a joke, but many insects have
a significant fat content.  YOU certainly wouldn't eat them, and due to
long-standing cultural prejudice, neither would I, but the fact remains
that humans DID, and still do eat them. >>

I, too, am not about to overcome my cultural bias as far as eating insects is
concerned, but what I'd like to know is what types of fats they contain, and
what the ratios might be. Then, for those of us not interested in eating
insects directly, we might at least have a way to try to attain a similar
ratio through other foods, more acceptable to modern day tastes.

Maddy Mason
Hudson Valley, NY