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05 September 2005

A plague on all your houses

I decided for a change to buy myself a yoghurt today.  The shock element to this was that I bought a low fat one.  The packaging assured me that the taste would be just as good.  I decided to check the ingredients, see what crap I was about to eat instead of honest-to-goodness fat.  I was not expecting to see one of the ten plagues.  But as you can see from the fuzzy photo below (sorry, using the camera on my phone) there it is: locust.

Locust_1

I wasn't sure whether to be horrified or eat it.  I decided to eat it.  There were no crunchy legs or wings, just blueberry yoghurt, which if I'm honest was a slight disappointment. 

As it turns out, the ingredient was locust bean paste, not locusts.  I've been unable to find too much out about what exactly LBP is except that it was used to stick the bandages together of mummies in ancient Egypt - nice.

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