Are you man enough?

[Bugbear]

I think Bugbear and I need to get Forum Botanist titles as we always seem to get side tracked at the merest hint of a botany break.

Many have wondered why John the Baptist went about eating locusts in the desert. Carob is also known as St.John's Bread, and the tree the fruits come from is closely related to the locust tree of the Bean family.

Oops, did I do that... again.

Carob hulls taste a little like cocoa, the actual seeds are teeth breakers though.

I would have to look into the wild honey to see if it "means what it means."

[piperdbh]

I would have to look into the wild honey to see if it "means what it means."

If you look into wild honey, you're liable to get stung.

[Bugbear]

If you look into wild honey, you're liable to get stung.

Ehh, I'm not turning up much information on wild honey anyway. It could be... bug scrapings or something like that. I do have a little information in an Oxford book that fried grasshoppers were eaten in the Middle East, so you never know...

I suppose if we learn to eat the bugs that eat our crops, we could get even with them.

[CDNSushi]

The longer I live in Asia, the more Western/Euro-centric articles like this seem to be. A man wears a skirt/kilt? BFD. Although I haven't worn a kilt in almost a year (the occasion hasn't arisen), I can count on one hand the times I have worn pants. Here in Nepal there are some 40+ ethnic groups and some say over 90 languages. Men wear lunghi and dhotis as do Indian (in fact many are Indians), Tibetan men wear chubas---floor length coats--- especially in the winter, Bhutanese wear a shorter, kilt-length version year-round, Buddhist monks wear robes that have a shang tab or ankle-length skirt, Hindu holy men wear several kinds of unbifurcated garments, etc. etc.

Conformity seems more rampant in the West in its own way, where some feel their masculinity so challenged when they step outside the norm by wearing a kilt or skirt that the colors and accessories must denote machismo, according to the article. But on the other hand clothes are more of a statement of one's individuality, rather than one's ethnicity, religion, caste, or other societal identifiers. I have come to appreciate Jock's approach to the kilt more and more. It, like much Nepali dress, is received wisdom, that shows where one comes from and where one fits into the culture, rather than carving out a statement about one's uniqueness.

Forgive my rambling. It's late here. And so to bed...

This.

[Inchessi]

Ehh, I'm not turning up much information on wild honey anyway. It could be... bug scrapings or something like that. I do have a little information in an Oxford book that fried grasshoppers were eaten in the Middle East, so you never know...

I suppose if we learn to eat the bugs that eat our crops, we could get even with them.

Watch the movie "Hildago." One scene in the desert he eats locust.

[MacLowlife]

Mama made a sweater from the hair of a goat
get up on the stage in your camel hair coat

Who's that John , Who's that John?
A voice in the wilderness, who's that John

Livin in the wildlife, eatin lots of honey
Standin in the river, don't need no money

Who's that John, Who's that, John
A voice in the wilderness, Who's that John

Preachin to the people bout raisin from the dead
Along come his cousin with a bird on his head


Who's that, etc.

From Who's that John by (Blind) Willie Trask

available on the unreleased CD
Best Proclaim it with a Shout
by Willie Trask and the No See Ums

[Bugbear]

I've never heard of them, MacLowlife...
I am finding more information suggesting that the locusts eaten by John the Baptist were in fact grasshoppers. I would guess it could be either or both; though it's looking a little more like it was, in fact, the grasshoppers.

Keeping in mind, the article suggests that one must eat wild honey and locus while wearing a kilt and "deconstructed T-shirt" to be "man enough."

So, MacLowlife, are you "man enough"?

[Bugbear]

I do note that the JB garb description is somewhat like the first descriptions of the belted plaid.

There is a description in Matt Newsome's article at the STM, "The Early History of the Kilt."

[MacLowlife]

I have a special name for my deconstructed t shirts.


They are called dustrags.

Surely somebody can make a joke about "wild honeys" can't they?

[Bugbear]

I have a special name for my deconstructed t shirts.


They are called dustrags.

Surely somebody can make a joke about "wild honeys" can't they?

Scottish Beekeepers Association
There you go, MacLowlife. Perhaps you could get a date with a Scottish bee keeper lady.

I doubt one should wear a kilt while keeping bees though.

Most of my dustrags are work clothes. Wouldn't want to turn the compost heep in a morning suit or tuxedo... much less a kilt.