Our Anglophone Cousins across the salty ponds, and their evolving diets

Daddy doesn't get out much.  I sit in front of a computer for many hours most days, come home and put children to sleep, feed dogs, drive 76 miles a day... But the good news is that I have children to fill me in on what's going on in the world.

Ian has been saying the last couple of days, "I hear that cats are pretty big on the Internet."

This was something of a surprise to me.  It never occurred to me that cat lovers might carry their enthusiasms into the ethernet.

But then there's one that really surprised me:  insect-eating is catching on "in neighboring countries."  This made me afraid to eat at Margarita's or Chipotle, and I'm not sure.

 I'll be heading up to Montreal any time soon, now that I know that our neighbors are turning out a bit more adventurous than I had imagined.

But then NAFTA got a reprieve:  it turned out that when Ian said "neighboring countries," he meant the U.K. and Australia.  And when you think about it, the only thing separating us from either place is water.  And in the case of Australia, an equator, but that's really just an invisible line anyway.

So I guess we have some unusual neighbors.  That's probably poetic justice for me, because I'll bet that our own neighbors, up and down our street, probably think that I'm a tiny bit eccentric.

(October 20, 2013)