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Huh.
A few years back, my mom-in-law gave me a cool piece of software called Life Form, which helps track nutrition, exercise and other health-related facts. It has a huge database of nutritional facts, and you can add new foods and even recipes, which comes in handy. All in all it's a fantastic way for me to keep track of what I'm eating.
One morning I was entering my morning cup of coffee (1 cup) and skim milk (3 tbsp, more or less) and thought to myself, I wonder if Life Form knows about Splenda/sucralose. Nope. But when I started typing it, the program suggested another "food":
I'm sorry, WHAT?!
I mean, I've lived in Texas for a long time, so of course I've heard of people eating squirrel (though I myself haven't had the pleasure). I have never stopped to consider how one might prepare a meal of squirrel, but if I had, you can be sure that raw squirrel would not have occurred to me outside of certain dire, hypothetical Donner Party / desert island scenarios.
It's also beyond comprehension to me that this would be considered standard fare, enough to be included in a database of everyday foods, especially when other things which I've thought ought to be in there have been missing.
However, it does make me wonder: would it be called...squishi?Labels: life form, raw squirrel, weird foods
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