[JRandomFreeper]

I've cooked fiddlehead ferns in a fine dining restaurant. They are good. Unfortunately, they don't grow around here. The restaurant paid big bucks for them.

In a few weeks, I'll be eating baby squash blossems stuffed with a squirrel forcemeat, and flash fried, served on a bed of polenta, reduced sauce, with local fresh greens on the side.

I'm eating it because I'm poor, and baby squash with blossoms come out of the garden, squirrels come out of the trees, and cornmeal and squirrel stock is cheap. Local greens are free, and they are crazy good this year.

In an upscale restaurant, something like that (the squirrel would have to be renamed) would run $29/plate.

I may be poor, but I find a way to eat well.

/johnny

[Lurker]

Use whatever the French word for squirrel is and you can make that 35 dollars a plate.