I find it amusing escargot are a french culinary delight, one of the most dangerous jobs on earth is crabbing for Alaska King crab and well dressed restaurant patrons can pick out their poor lobster from an aquarium next to some would be Billy Joel piano man. Yet introduce a cockroach and people panic. Kosher forbids shellfish because they are bottom feeders ( along with politicians <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) and eat the decayed corruption of creation. But if you study the Bible, 'Manna from heaven' was in many cases Locusts in non plague numbers and provided survival food. Of course if you were Mormon the Seagulls appreciate this food supply better. I ate a dead seagull in survival school. I can assure you a handfull of grubs, worms or insects would have been prefered <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> It comes down to CULTURAL perceptions, dietary laws and taboos. I had lunch at a carniceria with this old amansadore. I managed 2 of the hottest peppers in all of creation. My compadre polished off 6. He said I was 'mui hombre' for a Gringo. Do you have ANY idea how many cervesas it takes to neutralise those things? Or that in California riding a horse drunk is citeable in our penal code? If it wasn't for a horse smarter than I deserve, I would have become meat for the worms, an ironic twist on this thread. Lifes hard, but it's ultimately impartial.