HERB - Lion and Locust wording in a period recipe

M&L Romanowski leanner at mich.com
Thu Sep 2 20:58:14 PDT 1999



Gaylin Walli wrote:

>
> >My Latin dictionary gives locusta as lobster,
>
> My Latin dictionary as well, which I didn't even consider
> looking into. This is good. Much good.
>
> >I don't think most people could find testicles on a locust (big
> >insect) but on a lobster, yes.
>
> Uhm, okay. I don't much about lobster, to be honest. As far as
> I'm concerned, the fish market has a magic fish machine that
> makes them in the back room and wraps them in shrink-wrapped
> polystyrene trays. A lobster has testicles or an area that could
> be considered them?
>
> Jasmine, I don't remember male crustaceans having any sort of external
> testicle.  The females do have pleopods (leg-fin type things which are found
> under the tail section.  They use these to circulate water around their eggs
> and to carry the egg around.  (I am reaching way back into ancient memories of
> college biology here!)  I don't think that this would be a fatty region of a
> lobster.

Alana of Loch Mor

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