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NEW YORK Dec 2, 2006 (AP)— A food safety inspector noticed an interesting special posted in the front window of a market in Queens: 12 beefy armadillos.

In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another store. A West African grocery in Manhattan sold smoked rodent meat from a refrigerated display case. (Link)

Interesting article in yesterday's 600 pound newspaper (1 pound news & opinion, 3 pounds filler, 596 pounds of "gift ideas"). But here's my point: I wouldn't have too much trouble sampling some armadillo or iguana and I could probably even try a little smoked rat (as long as it was organic free-range rat). I have enjoyed eating frog legs, squid tentacles, halibut cheeks, brahma hump, raw eel... I've even sampled chicken feet, Rocky Mt Oysters, and, in a fit of insanity, a Big Mac. But cow lungs? That's just gross. Thanks, but I'm on a no-lung diet. Offer them to that guy over there eating the goat's eye soup.

And please, dear readers, don't tell me I'm getting a big share of cow lungs (and worse) every time I eat a hot dog or sausage. I don't want to know. My fingers are in my ears and I'm shouting at the top of my voice - I can't hear you: LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!!

Posted: Mon - December 4, 2006 at 10:05 AM          

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