[Sca-cooks] snake

[Amanda Wallace]

Not to sound like a herpetologist or anything......but those snakes aren't
poisonous, they are VENOMOUS.
Poison is ingested (you eat it). Venom is inJected (ie, you get bit).
Semantics, but it is one of my pet peeves.

Amanda Blackwolf
(whose hubby has 3 non-venomous snakes...Samson, De, and Tigger)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] snake


> I was just wondering- do we have any evidence that people ate snakes in
> period? Wouldn't they be likely to be though of as poisonous, even if they
> weren't? And seems to me that snakes were in that bundle of things that
> came out of the heaverns to annoy Peter- unclean thigns, whoich amkes me
> thing that they would no more be likely to eat them than to eat bugs and
> worms. I could be wrong though. Anyone got any ideas?
>
> And don't bring up lampreys. Not interested in lampreys, and no
> Sweetie-pie, I *still* would not eat them in a box or on a train or in a
> pie that you bake! I just CAN'T DO IT.
>
> Squeamish 'Lainie
> -looking for period pictures of picnic ants...