When Bio Is…Too Bio
A funny thing happened on the way to breakfast the other morning. John, fellow HIB contributor and connisseur of all things crunchy, was digging in for his usual early-morning granola. We go back and forth between various bio brands (not necessarily for the fact that the product is bio, really, but that there are just few choices for crunchy granola. Muesli has a sog-factor worse than corn flakes) but this morning’s selection was “Gut und Gerne,” strawberry-flavored. All good so far.
John tips the bag over into his small bowl and out hops a grasshopper. Seriously. Violently green, very alive, and a little hysterical. We watched it run around the rim of the bowl for about a minute. Deciding it wasn’t a hang-over hallucination or the special surprise treat that the Gut und Gerne folk forgot to mention on the packaging, we cupped the grasshopper gently in hands and tossed him outside.
The moral of the story? Bio is not for the squeamish. Examine that package closely before you, erm, hop in.
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September 18th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
LOL… at least the granola was fresh?
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Reminds me of the poor caterpillar on my bio broccoli. I thought I’d washed it thoroughly, but after I took the lid of the pan to see how it was steaming, there he was, literally blanched. He’d climbed to the highest point of a floret and expired.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
“lid off”
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Hehe. We had a handsome little snail in our polish (non-bio) raspberries the other day. We set him free in our strikingly useless basil plant, and he disappeared. So he’ll probably turn up in our broccoli someday.