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#1: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz) on Aug 26, 2007 [SPOILER]

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Cute puzzle. Enjoyed solving it.

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Sorry! I'll try not to do that again ^>^

Dont be sorry Gypso, I love a challenging puzzle, they are my favourites, dont stop :)

You're a sweetheart Marz! I meant all the little "ones" bits. Reminds me of a joke I heard recently. You don't have to drive me crazy. I can walk from here!

I prefer "You can't drive me, Crazy. You don't have a license."

Don't be sorry just because of my weirdness. If I had my way, ketchup on hotdogs would be illegal. By the way, the boys confirmed the ketchup/tomato sauce nomeclature, not that I doubted Marz at all.

Ask Qwerty about "the Killing Joke", and the crazy guys.

LOL Mercy2, Very funny, I like it!

JC, No harm, no foul. I didn't take offense :D If I had my way spam would be illegal!

Sylvain, what about this "Killing Joke"?

Better be careful with that Spam bashing. Ask Marz if it's popular over there; her Asian and other south pacific neighbors love the stuff. Hawaii has the highest consumption rate in the states, and they aren't alone! Okay, I confess , I like spam. It goes back to camping trips as a kid. Easy to open, easy to make, and a lot more animal safe than bacon in a plastic wrapper. But I won't make you have any when we take that road trip.

I'm convinced that my ex was trying to kill us all with his "spam ala Bruce". Disgusting, even with the jar of curry he added. *sound of cat coughing up hairball*. We always loved that cat too...

Between the heavy use of DTD in the cane fields and the high consumption of spam, the # of cancer deaths per capita in the aloha state are among the highest in the US. Please. please Marz, say it ain't so. Do you really eat spam?

Glad to hear that spam isn't on the road trip menu. Will there be tofu? Popcorn, lemon sorbet, Bazooka Joe bubblegum, raw almonds, Luigi's supreme vegi pizza and cherries? Lots and lots of cherries?

Cherries, only if there's no spitting pits at the driver. If it's a searching for America (say taking route 30 from coast-to-coast) then native staples reaped from the local fare. Otherwise you're just eating something grow and packed far away and only discoveing the same field and packing plant.

Sugar cane is a huge crop down under, the largest commodity (dontcha just love how having traveling relatives makes one an instant expert?). There are nasty bugs that ruin the crop, but then toads or frogs were introduced from (africa?) to eat the bugs, but nothing will eat the toads, so now they are the problem. If this is all a bunch of hooey pushed off on the tourists, Marz, please let me know. I've already busted them on one myth.

Curry spam sounds, yes, disgusting.

Its all true, we have spam and toads, maybe they are linked in some way, or maybe this will be our answer to the toad problem. Where I am in NSW there isn't a problem with the cane toads, a few have been spotted over the border, I am very scared these revolting things will invade NSW, I can handle redback spiders no problem and I love bluetongue lizards, but these big fat ugly warty oozing toads make me get the cold shivers. They grow so big that they cant fit on a mans hand, they cover roads with their sheer numbers and the only thing to do is to run them over, which has absolutely no effect on their population. This is a massive problem, there are groups of people trying to get rid of these beasts, but it seems to have little effect, you can buy products made from cane toad skin but the market just isn't there, jeez, I don't no for the life of me why not?
I am not a spam eater, I have tried the product out of curiousity once and found it to be edible, I wonder if cane toad would taste much different with a bit of salt thrown in. I think Im on to something here. If there are people who regulary and happily purchase spam then there must be a market for cane toad, surely. In answer to a previous comment, I think it was Gypso who asked, about kangaroo and was it emu? I have eaten kangaroo, but that's it as far as native animals go. The kangaroo was nice, it was cooked to perfection mind you, it has a very strong gamey taste, more like beef than chicken. The fellow who cooked it first marinated it in some beer, lime juice, honey, and some seasonings for a couple of hours and then slow bbq it and smoked it, it was beatiful. I have tried to cook it like this myself, but it just wasn't the same. I can buy kangaroo sausages at my local grocery store, but I haven't tried them yet. We also have an overpopulation problem with kangaroos, but at least they are edible, and we have an overseas market for them. :)

Marz, you are a mistress of the written word. Very informative and entertaining. If I could, I'd let you have all the bluetongue lizards and take from you the big, fat ugly, warty oozing beasty toads. Not that I think I would enjoy them mind you. They sound "creature from the black lagoon" like. How about birds? Aren't there any birds who might find them tasty? Wait a minute, "The Birds" now Toads, maybe you could make a movie.

Greatly relieved that you don't eat spam! Not sure about toad spam. Actually not sure that spam isn't toad.

Due to your positive response, I am now warming up to the idea of trying kangaroo. I'll need the address of your bbq fellow though.

The problem is that the toads are toxic. They might not be deadly, but they'll make the other fellow sick enough to never try them again. Maybe you could market them as an aphrodisiac as an alternative to rhino horns or tiger byproducts, kill two birds with one stone, as it were. Then again, here in the US, there is a breed of toad in the southern states that people lick and get a hallucingenic high off of. It doesnt have to work, but you'll get boat loads of teenagers smuggling the things out of Aus. Think about it.

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Hmmm, interesting observation from someone who's initials are RR.

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Good morph! Fun solve.

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