Now, For Something Completely Different

While it was a brave person who first ate the oyster, it was a starving lunatic who first ate the possum.

From this essay. & it came via SeattleTammy.

Department Of Duh?

This is a big problem for the Chequamegon Food Coop & many other stores that offer good, organic foods. As long as government on every level keeps supporting factory agriculture, the poor & elderly will continue to suffer. As usual, the diet of an American is not always an uniformed choice, but a forced nightmare.

In this land and season of plenty, low-income and rural Americans continue to have difficulty finding healthy foods that are affordable, a new study finds.

One study shows that low-income Americans now would have to spend up to 70 percent of their food budget on fruits and vegetables to meet new national dietary guidelines for healthy eating.

And a second study found that in rural areas, convenience stores far outnumber supermarkets and grocery stores

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First Food

Well, the first solid food. Here are the pics, as promised. We also had a very successful audience at the Black Cat, a great coffeehouse without WiFi, owned by a demented, but quite hot woman, who was present today in order to be blessed by The Twins.

Marigny isn't quite sure about this.

Marigny likes this stuff.

This spoon thing is cool, too.

Lucy wants to know why her sister is getting 'nanas & she is stuck with her thumb.

Lucy says, "Thank you, Dad."

Lucy says,"I can hold my own spoon, thank you very much. Oh, & let me savor this new & strange flavor.

OK, what's next?

Well, That Went Pretty Well

The Twins are here here & in honor of being at G & G's house, they were introduced to their first solid food - organic 'nanas, not to be confused with Nana, the other wonderful & talented Grandmother. Pictures later.

Really Bad

Bye-bye.

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries.

Football Food

From New Orleans.