Banana Pest

These fellas can cause a lot of damage in a very short time!
Fortunately this was taken in one of our local parks and not in my garden!

I swear, I would just drop in a dead faint!!! yuck!

LOL tiG! They are pretty ugly at that but there were a lot of them in this one area and they seemed to find each other wuite attractive! Wonder if they looked up at me and exclaimed about how ugly thos human creatures are!

wow! looks like something that should be served on a long bun!

I could gather a few and ship them out to you Horseshoe! You can try steaming them or broiling them but I warn you...no salt cause it turns them to mush! How many would you like?

Ugh...hate mush, need salt. Well, maybe when I see a recipe in the DG Cookbook on the proper way to prepare these babies I'll be in touch, Zany!

They might do better as desert...froxen banana slug, hand dipped in chocolate and rolled in chopped nuts...Hmmm...I may have a new and exciting thing here if I can sucker someone into testing them!

oh yuck!!! LOL!!

Not so bad tiG...The French have convinced many people that snails are good eating as escarcot and some folks like chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers so these might make an interesting choice for those gourmets out there!

you try them first:)

Not Me! LOL I think Escargot is yuky so slugs are a definate noway!

Too early in the morning to be reading this!! Just keep them out there, our brown ones are bad enough!!
Horseshoe, is there any critter that you won't eat?

"Horseshoe, is there any critter that you won't eat?"

Well, now that you bring the subject up, I once refused to eat a 6-legged turkey that I had especially bred for a family up the road. They always quarreled about the number of drumsticks on Thanksgiving Day. (I had cross-bred the bird w/a centipede in an effort to try and feed the community, but sad to say it was a failing effort, what w/only making 6 legs ya know). Anyway, I remember sitting there at the table, watching the feast begin. Loads of taters, gravy, corn pone, black eye peas, punkin pies, cranberry sauce, and this special "entre'" (that's a French word I think...it means "whatever is sittin in the middle of the table). Anyway, there sat my prized 6-legged turkey laying there with all its legs straight up in the air on its customized platter! (For that platter we had to weld 3 hubcaps together to make one long enuff to contain the bird. And get this! The hubcaps from the Ford out back on blocks had them ridges on the edges to keep the juices from flowing onto the Sunday tablecloth!)
Anyway, like I's saying, I refused to eat some of that bird. Reason was cuz I was being po-lite. To this day I wonder what it tasted like. Tsk tsk tsk, my loss, eh? eh? ô¿ô

ROFLOL~~ hey Shoe, we're in the party waiting for a story!!

Pobably had the faint flavor of Centipede!! You did good to steer clear of it.

I have been thinking about that bird of yours Shoe and I really think you might be onto something! Farmers have bred turkeys to have more white meat for so long now that folks like myself that prefer the dark meat are being left out. a 6 legged turkey would be just the ticket and I could have left over dark meat for weeks! So keep trying and I'll look forward to seeing them in the supermarket soon :~)

Hmmm...so I'm sposed to start experimenting again, eh? You never know what may become of it! (What if I end up with a centipede w/feathers?)

that might have a market somewhere Shoe!!! hey, we're waiting at the DG party in Gen Discussion for a story! we've been gathered round for a bit now:)

Yeah Horseshoe, and 100 mini-drumsticks, but where's the 'Parson's Nose'?

*hmmmmmm*

Wintermoor

Parson's Nose?????????? Whadda I miss???

"eyes"

hah!...Eyes, I guess he calls it the "parson's nose" (politely)....I've always heard it called "the pope's nose"!

On a chicken, near the butt...that tail piece that hangs out. The pope's nose! (I should say a dead and plucked chicken.)

Speaking of chicken's butts, I'm thinking of doing the "Beer can up the butt chicken" recipe. Anyone ever done it?

oh I hear a story coming from that one!!! take pictures

I saw a picture of this on TV, I didn't hear ths story about it tho - not quite sure of the purpose except for a joke!

tiG, it's really a recipe. No joke. Basically you season your bird, then put a can of beer up its south end and stay it upright on your grill. Supposed to really flavor and tenderize the chicken.

I know, but once you get it going, that's a whole different 'story' LOL!

Hehehe....ô¿ô

Do you open this can & let it run into the bird - what a way to go!!

HAH!...yes Azalea!...you pop the top, drink a little (or pour it out) then insert into chicken's postierour, eh, posterirer, us,,, BUTT, then cook! Supposed to be delish!
And by the way, you do it with a DEAD bird.

I just ran across a cooking artical about this in a magazine! They were reccomending it for BBQ ing over coals and wood chips. They even stated that you must pop the top of the beer before putting it in the cavity and standing it up over the coals. I used beer to baste turkeys for years but never tried putting it under the Parsons nose!