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To: webber
If this story is true, then I will eat my Manna-Hat!! Actually, if you do a little digging in the site, they will tell you the stories are mostly made up - of course. They are a satirical site but I did not take the time to figure out if they are being mean about it or just trying to be funny.
5 posted on 10/29/2003 7:59:02 PM PST by WhereTheBuffaloRoam
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To: WhereTheBuffaloRoam
They are a satirical site

Okay. That bit about eating from the plate of God's cruelty and reverse engineering it so they could patent manna burgers had me thinking that it had to be satire, but I quickly scanned the site and it didn't appear to be a spoof. I should have given it a closer look.

17 posted on 10/29/2003 8:35:03 PM PST by alnick (Pray that God will grant wisdom to American voters.)
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To: WhereTheBuffaloRoam
If this story is true, then I will eat my Manna-Hat!!

Apparently, there really is such a thing as manna, an edible substance that appears in the desert. It is produced by insects. Here is one description, although I am sure that there are better ones:

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'Manna' still occurs in the desert. Insects which live on the feathery tamarisk trees in the Sinai area suck the sap of the tree. Then they exude drops of a sweet, resinous secretion, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. These stick on the ground and evaporate into white, frost-like particles before turning yellowish brown. They taste like solidified honey. Modern Bedouin gather the manna early in the day, before ants - possibly the 'maggots' of the Bible - become active and eat it. They seal it up in pots, away from the ants, kneading it later into a paste which is a nourishing addition to their everyday diet. "Depending on favorable conditions it is possible for one man to gather four pounds of manna in a morning. As early as the 15th century AD monks and Arabs in Sinai gathered manna soon after daybreak in order to sell it...Manna is not only a local product. The 'ambrosia' of the Greek gods was probably also the resinous secretion associated with the tamarisk - which grows widely in Mediterranean countries."      - Marshall Cavendish, Genesis and Exodus

20 posted on 10/29/2003 9:18:35 PM PST by wideminded
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