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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
ap ^ | 7/4/07 | ap

Posted on 07/04/2007 5:30:21 AM PDT by Flavius

BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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To: Flavius
I was going to add a line about "learning from their mistakes, mostly", but I couldn't quite phrase it in a way that I liked.

More...coffee...needed...

Must be genetic to the Chinese. I had a Chinese roomie that grew up in the US. He did like his less than common foods.

Stuff that I didn't grow up eating, but available now and then in grocery chains.

And, the trips to the Chinatown markets on Saturdays.

I think he would have balked at mummy powder or dinosaur bones, though.

Plus his appreciation for losing history and science.

21 posted on 07/04/2007 6:28:15 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

well i suppose at the end of the day people with nuclear weapons will eat whatever they want


22 posted on 07/04/2007 6:29:52 AM PDT by Flavius
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To: ishabibble; lowbridge

Thanks for the warning, I think I already know enough.


23 posted on 07/04/2007 6:33:23 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

You can look up the details on your own if you want; suffice to say that Albert Fish was the inspiration for Hannibal Lecter.


24 posted on 07/04/2007 6:37:44 AM PDT by fzx12345 (ACLU DELENDA EST)
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To: Dustbunny

“Totally amazing what the Chinese consider to be medicinal or to have special powers.”

What is amazing to me is that we allow them to sell their crap here, knowing that they put ground up dinosaur bones in the food and vitamin suplements they produce.


25 posted on 07/04/2007 6:37:55 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: Flavius

They’re eating rocks?


26 posted on 07/04/2007 6:49:47 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Flavius

They will eat anything with four legs except the dinner table.


27 posted on 07/04/2007 6:50:12 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Flavius
Mine also. You could go to the furthest backwater in the deepest hole in America and the gap toothed locals would look like the cream of creation next to these primitive savages.
28 posted on 07/04/2007 6:57:29 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
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To: Flavius; DaveLoneRanger

I’d like to know more about this cache of dinosaur bones. Where were they found, what was their condition, etc. Was it just a pile of bones, or were they somewhat assembled?


29 posted on 07/04/2007 7:03:16 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Flavius

I call BS. Any dinosaur bones found today would be fossilized, and I doubt that these people were eating rocks.


30 posted on 07/04/2007 8:20:09 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Gaza: Your one-stop schadenfreude entertainment center.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

why they send us pulverized charcoal and antifreeze to gorge on

i dont think they would mind eating rocks


31 posted on 07/04/2007 8:23:51 AM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

Visitors look at the leg bone of a dinosaur believed by Chinese scientists to be the heaviest in Asia on display in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan Province, Tuesday, July 3, 2007. Parts of the 18-meter dinosaur were dug up and eaten by locals as traditional medicine, scientists said Tuesday. The dinosaur bones, and a mockup of a full size dinosaur were displayed for the first time Tuesday. (AP Photo/EyePress)


32 posted on 07/04/2007 10:53:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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A worker arranges the recovered dinosaur fossils excavated in Yunxian county of Hubei province, at a museum in Shiyan, central China's Hubei province June 27, 2007. The museum will be opened on July 1, 2007, local media reported. Picture taken June 27, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)


33 posted on 07/04/2007 10:54:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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To: fso301

>They will eat anything with four legs except the dinner table.<

Have you ever wondered why their tables are so close to the floor? Yup, you guessed it.


34 posted on 07/04/2007 11:58:56 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Check out this website for the National Veterans Coalition http://www.nvets.org/)
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To: doodad

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35 posted on 07/04/2007 12:39:20 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Flavius

in the late 1970’s the maoist peasants were eating the flesh of rich humans.

si.

reported in the new york review of books.


36 posted on 07/04/2007 12:42:37 PM PDT by ken21
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39 posted on 07/04/2007 9:48:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Wednesday, July 4, 2007.)
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40 posted on 07/04/2007 9:50:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Wednesday, July 4, 2007.)
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