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Dave wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:Good sausage? Permissible cheese? Pest sauce?

Either a sense of humour, or a lousy translator... Who will dare try to find out?

Well, grasshoppers are often considered pests, and the toasted grasshoppers I had at a bar in Vientiane were quite tasty. About halfway between Fritos and grilled shrimp, flavor-wise.

Not sure how you would make them into a sauce, though. Blend them with melted permissible cheese, I suppose.

lake_wrangler wrote:I once ate caterpillar in peanut butter sauce, at my church's missions dinner (we have church members from all over, so all those who participated brought food from their country of origin.) It was good, but I wasn't too keen on the peanut butter sauce, actually...

Catawampus wrote:Today's lunch companion wasn't all that talkative. Perhaps Euryale would have been able to coax more conversation out of him.

The contract for the prototype XF7F-1 was signed on 30 June 1941. Grumman's aim was to produce a fighter that outperformed and outgunned all existing fighter aircraft, and that had an auxiliary ground attack capability.[2] Armament was heavy: four 20 mm cannons and four 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, as well as underwing and under-fuselage hardpoints for bombs and torpedoes. Performance met expectations too; the F7F Tigercat was one of the highest performance piston-engined fighters, with a top speed well in excess of the US Navy's single-engined aircraft—71 mph faster than a Grumman F6F Hellcat at sea level.[3] CAPT Fred M. Trapnell, one of the Navy's premier test pilots, opined that: "It's the best damn fighter I've ever flown."[4] The Grumman F7F was originally named the "Tomcat" but this name was rejected as it was considered too suggestive, at the time.[5] The name would much later be used for the Grumman F-14.