PCB - politically correct beer

>> PCB - politically correct beer

As long as it doesn't have poly-chlorinated bi-phenols in it! Or not TOO many.

I read Emu butter and was wondering where you were headed Rick. There's an Emu farm not far from here but I've never wanted to read further to find out how Emu oil is "extracted". Bitters I remember very fondly from my time in London, 50p/pint. On special occasions a good ale. I wonder if Stout is more effective than ale or lager in attracting slugs?

My guess is the yeastier the better. I doubt the slugs much care about bitterness, hoppiness, or the slight undertone of blackberries...

I think that rendering down emus for their lard or tallow or butter is another thread ...

... and I just flinched and spat at the thought of "slug beer" being made FROM slugs. Yuck-o!

It's bad enough to have read the story of the gardener who put down his can of beer on the porch and went to do something ... then came back just in time to see the slug that had crawled up onto the porch, up the table-leg, up the side of the can, and was about to plunge INTO the can to meet his beery fate.

Bad, but better than coming back two minutes later.

Back on topic: did we decide that pill bugs prefer craft beer?

I still really can't figure out why anyone doesn't like the potato bugs...

My niece drove up here from Pacifica once to work in my garden because she needed some money. She unearthed a potato bug with the first shovelful of soil, got back in her car, and drove home. She didn't want to even be in the same county with a bug that ugly, not for any amount of money.

http://www.potatobugs.com/

UGH!! That reminds me of a mole cricket. Nasty nasty... I hate crickets. Why? Back in '88, I was in my parents' living room (still in high school) and saw a cricket crawling along the floor. So I stomped on it.. don't need bugs inside the house. A disgusting parasitic worm unwound itself from the cricket's abdomen & started to squirm around. Made me literally sick to my stomach and I had NEVER been sick to my stomach from "gross" sights or smells. Ever since then, I have a major phobia against crickets. Ugh.

Potato bugs are different than rolly pollys, though..

Some people call roly-poly bugs potato bugs, though, and I think that's what Deb was doing, but her statement reminded me of our local monster.

But as Toni said, they are actually a sort of cricket. Do you suppose they like beer too?

Oh, ugh! I remember those nasty potato bugs from my California days. Give me the crawlies! The last time I came across one of those things was in the oddest place imaginable. I'd gone to see a play by one of the small local theater groups in Palos Verdes (I knew one of the actors in the play) and they had a kind of crude refreshment room for intermission. There was a bucket sitting to one side of the room and OMG there was a HUGE potato bug sitting in it! Eeeek! (No, thank you, I don't think I need any refreshments at this time.. )

I will admit that this thread has been a bit confusing to me. I believe I refer to your rollie pollies as potato bugs, and when I do an internet search for rollie pollie that is the critter I am talking about. I also searched for potato bug and came up with some weird looking thing I've never seen. So it must be a regional thing. And Zuzu refers to them as a local monster, which mystifies me, as I've never thought of them as anything other than a fun bug for kids to play with. Again, must be regional. Whatever damage the rollie pollie/potato bugs might do in the Pacific NW is likely so overshadowed by slug damage that it is inconsequential. (Just my guess, I'm no bug expert.)

I was being facetious when I called it a monster, Deb. As far as I know, it does no damage at all in the garden. It just looks creepy.

Ha ha - now I'm totally confused! (Easily done) I will continue to view these small bugs as my friends, much as I do those teensy little red spiders that show up now and again by the millions. As a small child, I would often play with the baby red spiders, being very careful my mom didn't see me. Somehow I knew she would be creeped out, or worse, kill my little friends.

Your confusion is well founded if you didn't click on the link in my original post. There's nothing creepy about a roly-poly bug, which is known locally as a pill bug or a sow bug here. Your reference to a potato bug made me think of the Jerusalem cricket, which we call a potato bug, and it is creepy.

http://dracoverdi.net/pages/po...