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To: Gauguin who wrote (31775)	7/13/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

"The average human eats eight spiders in a lifetime at night." I read the average American eats 13 lbs of bugs a year. Apparently they get mixed in with mixed greens and other edibles. Presumably these are the dead ones. It would seem to me that for one to eat a spider at least one of you would have to be awake. Thus the "at night" probably means "while asleep." After seeing the flies in the cookie case at the bakery in Pavillion's yesterday, I can see how such things happen. I understand most bugs are mostly protein. PCM

To: Gauguin who wrote (31775)	7/13/1999 6:07:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't mind the thought of eating bugs in my food. I don't have a bug-phobia - my husband and boys do, too, I think emulating their father. I don't know what they think of eating bugs. But it's inevitable, food has bugs and bug pieces and rodent hairs and stuff in it. Tiny bugs, of course. Almost microscopic. And cute ones, too. I keep a clean kitchen, but there's always fast food and prepared food, so I console myself with thinking that it gives my immune system something to do. But I really dislike the thought of ingesting spiders in my sleep. I think I always sleep with my mouth closed, so how the heck do they get in there? I think that mouth-breathers must get my share. That's what it is. I'm certain. Anyway, how did these bozos determine this? Did they watch spiders crawl into sleeping people's open mouths? Or screen their feces looking for spider parts? Don't they have better things to do?