Friday, June 5, 2015
Deliciousness from the Sky
From the land of the ice and snow, with the midnight sun where the dumbkopfs blow, we have a story of lampreys falling from the sky. The arctic lamprey, a jawless, primitive fish, is a relative of the sea lamprey that is ravaging Great Lakes fisheries. Lampreys are also rumored to be extremely delicious, so much so that Henry I of England was supposed to have died from eating a "surfeit of lampreys". Sadly, Great Lakes sea lampreys have high concentrations of mercury, stymieing the creation of a commercial lamprey fishery. To my knowledge, there's no mercury issue with arctic lampreys, so rather than the "rain of horrors" that a lot of media outlets are describing, this somewhat outré occurrence should be reported as deliciousness from the sky.
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There is a tradition of sending the Queen a lamprey pie on her Jubilees. There is a shortage of them here so no chance of her dying from a surfeit of them.
I remember the sea lamprey problem from when I was young. And we've had so many invasive species, it's hard to count.
Poor mother nature...human beans were a bad experiment.
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There is a tradition of sending the Queen a lamprey pie on her Jubilees. There is a shortage of them here so no chance of her dying from a surfeit of them.
We can send you some of ours, come to think of it, we can send you a bunch of sparrows too. We have too many of yours.
Poor mother nature...human beans were a bad experiment.
As Smut put it, we're the most pernicious invasive species of them all.
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