Posted on 12/29/2015 7:09:42 AM PST by PROCON
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Like consumers around the globe, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves these days. But there's one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow dung patties are selling like hot cakes.
The patties - cow poop mixed with hay and dried in the sun, made mainly by women in rural areas and used to fuel fires - have long been available in India's villages. But online retailers including Amazon and eBay are now reaching out to the country's ever-increasing urban population, feeding into the desire of older city folks to harken back to their childhood in the village.
Some retailers say they're offering discounts for large orders. Some customers are asking for gift wrapping.
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My Daddy used to tell me that no matter what kind of crap someone was selling, there would always be someone to buy it! Now I see that it is literally true.
Market them as free-range, antibiotic-free cow dung and the demand among American progressives would be huge for fuel in their hibachis.
I remember Afghans burning chips....I think along with a few poppies....
You wouldn’t be able to burn it.
Oh yeah! don’t forget green and sustainable, a slap in the face of Big Oil, oh, and don’t forget an endorsement by Native American Sham-ans for the ‘spiritual’ connection with great mother earth....ka-ching!
There is some funny youtube video out there I saw a long time ago where it shows a guy trying to light a cow paddy, and the thing blows up on him. Apparently it had built up a pocket of gas with in it. Funny video, I wonder if someone on freerepublic could find it and post it.
You COULD burn it, you just wouldn’t be allowed to.
Ain’t technology great?
I found the link to funny youtube exploding cow paddy.
I always put a little salsa on my dung patties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZI1eeV88lQ
Don't try this at home.
Procon thanks for making that a link, didn’t know how to do that.
Killer took a step toward Patty
Said it’s time I gunned you down
But he slipped in somethin’ that was layin in the street
And was shot fore he hit the ground
Yes the killer slipped
And it cost him his life
And Patty said as she roared out of town
You gotta watch your step
When you know the chips are down
Yippee yay a Cow Patty
Yippee yay a Cow Patty
She rode in to town to find the man who killed her daddy
Yippee yay a Cow Patty
-Jim Stafford
#fecalmattermatters
Oh , I thought they were Vampires and they were eating them
kind of like riding along ocean parkway and smelling charcoal reminds me of VN
The next "Secret Santa" party at the office could get interesting.
Imagine if they could break in to the hipster market in the US who will pay 30 bucks for 2 grams of kale, and 12 bucks for a PBR
Cowboys, too. A song half-remembered from my youth:
All day on the prairie in the saddle I ride
Not even a dog, boys, to trot by my side,
My fire I must kindle with the chips gathered 'round
And boil my own coffee without bein' ground.
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