[Sca-cooks] Strange request - Squid Liver Powder

[Johnna Holloway]

In this case, you might google the company name and see what can
be found out as regards the company. It may be a case of someone
being bored while sitting at a workstation someplace.
On this same note,
I rec'd an odd query from a lady who wanted to know more
about Revereware pots and pans based on a post in the Florilegium.
She didn't want me to sell her anything-- just tell her where she
could send in something defective.
So I looked it up and sent here an e-mail address for the firm.

Johnnae

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Hosting the Florilegium I sometimes get rather unusual offers or 
> requests. Some folks don't seem to investigate very thoroughly what 
> their search engine found, since I don't sell any product. I end up 
> reading most of them simply because it might be someone asking for 
> information, such as the school kid who asked me to "send him 
> everything I had on medieval food". Here is one I got today which 
> piques my curiosity:
>
>> Could you quote for us the delivery of Squid Liver Powder: 350MT 
>> delivered on 9 months in Bandar Abbas, Iran.  Could you send us the 
>> complete specification of your product.
>>
>> Ara you also able to provide shrimp meal (Virus free guaranty by 
>> independant lmaboratory)?  If yes we would like interested to receive 
>> an offer for 650 MT on 9 months CIF Bandar Abbas.  In this case could 
>> you, please, send us also the complete specification of your product.
>
>
> Anyone have any idea what they would want the Squid Liver Powder for?
>
> Thanks,
>   Stefan