Join Nuala on her monthly trip to the world of
the imponderable! You can contact Nuala or
Val in Driver's Services with any driver-related
problems…
This month: Delicacies we may not enjoy…
   According to Karl Shaw’s book of tasteless lists, other countries may enjoy food that doesn’t do much for our stomachs. For example, the
residents of the Central American state of
Belize are quite partial to a plate of Cena Molida
– roasted and then mashed cockroaches! Some
 in Ecuador enjoy fried, roasted or boiled guinea
 pig, whereas in the Philippines, plump sausages
 consisting of rat meat are quite popular! Some
outlying parts of China have unusual tastes too.
   How about crispy fried rat with lemon and
bamboo shoots? Hmmm, not sure about the
bamboo shoots! Fancy a Chinese dessert?
How about desiccated petrified deer’s penis?
   Thailand enjoys the occasional bowl of bat soup,
whereas the 19th century Welsh never said no to
a pickled puffin! The Monty Python team once did a sketch containing a partiality to lark’s vomit.
Perhaps that was really a documentary!
   Icnidellntay, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what ordre the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Nuala Glavin