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Why would anyone eat locusts and wild honey?

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Michie

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Wearing a camel-hair garment and a leather belt is one thing but eating locusts and wild honey is another. I don’t suppose John the Baptist was wearing the camel hair garment that I am familiar with-although I think it would have certainly given an ecumenical advantage with the Brooks Brothers crowd-of whom I have been a sometimes admirer...

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Not a huge difference between shrimp and locust, anatomically anyhow. Except that locust is kosher/halal and shrimp is not.

Who doesn't like honey?
 
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chevyontheriver said:
Not a huge difference between shrimp and locust, anatomically anyhow. Except that locust is kosher/halal and shrimp is not.
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I once had a girlfriend from the Middle East who would not eat shrimp for that reason.
 
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"Ακρίς", also means "tip" or "peak"and its plural "ακρίδες" means "shoots" as in tender young plants. It does not translate only as "locusts". Most of the Greek fathers I have read consider the "shoots" as equivalent to the pottage eaten by the sons of the prophets in the Old Testament.
 
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