June 13, 2008
So......When I was an educational tour guide in Old Town, I explained to little 3rd grade students how the people lived in early San Diego. I talked about adobe bricks, tallow, fiestas, etc. I also showed them how the early settlers learned to dye fabric by learning that skill from the Indians.
They squeezed the white fungus stuff that grows on cactus plants. Give it a good squeeze and your fingers turn a bright red.
For the life of me, I never questioned how that happened. I just thought it was magic white fungus.
Until today.
Until I learned that a BUG lives inside the fungus. Squeeze the fungus and you squeeze the fookin' BUG!
Ewwwww!
Not only was I squeezing the fungus, I was putting it on my LIPS to show how the settlers used it for makeup!
Gaaaaa! As if putting fungus on my lips wasn't bad enough, now I find out it was fungus mixed with BUG JUICE!
Ewwwwww!
Sometimes, I would rather be kept in the dark about such things.
I present to you......
It's plentiful in Tombstone. Come to the javelinahunt and try it for yourself! It's sure to go well with chasing pork-ish creatures into the shadows of the night whilst brandishing burning marshmallows, eh?
Comments please if you have ever eaten bugs. Or not.
