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Stork- I can't remember... What was the worm/caterpillar infestation in NJ,PA,MD,etc about ten years ago? I just can't remember the name of that bug. The cacoons were everywhere.

You DO know I was kidding about the PETA thing? right? I say BURN THE BASTARDS!!!! Make gallons of wine out of them! I don't give a shit!

"Well, Bill lives just South of rt 1 on Sills Mill Road. Say Hi for me. Say Hi to those nice Wyeth boys, too.
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 11:40 PM"

My cousin's (Frolic's) neighbors - I moved to Sillydelphia.
We put tape on the trees to keep those legless wormy creeps at bay. A friend of a friend told us it worked.

I think you've got the date about pegged, Hairy H. We moved up to western PA about 9 1/2 years ago. The area had just gotten done with a terrible 3-yr long gypsy moth infestation that killed thousands of acrea of forest. And then wild fires broke out in numerous areas of the mountains (that would be the eastern Laurel Highlands area), fed by all the dead wood. Reasearchers from Penn State finally solved the problem by releasing millions of sterilized parasitic black flies that killed the gypsy moth caterpillars by laying their eggs at the base of the caterpiller's brain stems. The eggs didn't develop, being unfertilized, but the gypsy moths couldn't survive pupation into adults with the fly eggs there. So, kill two birds with one stone - the gypsy moths died, and the black flies did, too; pretty good science, huh? The following summer there was an explosion of tent caterpillars that stripped another hundred or so thousand acres of PA forests, orchards, and home fruit and decorative trees. I almost burned down a flowering Japanese willow in my yard one evening while trying to burn out their nests. Make wine with them? I still can picture scraping them of the bottom of my sneakers, coming in from the yard! DIE - You evil alien haunted demon BUGS!!!

Given the additives this vintner admits to using (sugar, water, yeast, yeast nutrients, etc.), you could make wine (or at least an alcoholic beverage) out of shoes, lug nuts, or just about anything. The worms or snakes or baby octopuses or whatever floating around in the bottle are irrelevant to the fermentation going on. To claim that you have real army worm wine, it seems to me that army worms should be the only, or at least the main, ingredient. After all, regular wine is made entirely of grape juice with nothing added but (sometimes) yeast.

Well, the guy is in Minnesota, he probably had a lot of time to think something up while he was locked in his house all winter. Now, this is what he drinks to keep warm.

I don't know anything about this caterpillar wine, but I've tried the snake stuff and the 5 penis wine before(although that was more like brandy then wine). The stuff I had in campodia was just stoly vodka with a cobra inside. It tasted skunky and make my buddy sick for days. A friend of mine keeps a bottle of the snake baijio at his place and we crack into it everytime we're pissed. Makes for nasty hangovers.

Yeah, GYSPY Moths. Why that named escaped me, i don't know. All those black flies didn't croak, though. I live in North Central Pa., and we get them in such numbers that it looks like Amittyville sometimes. And then we got these chinese ladybugs a few years back. They hang year round and they stink. They'd make a bad wine, to be sure.

>>>You DO know I was kidding about the PETA thing? right?<<<

Well then congratulations, you trolled me. Someone help me get this hook out of my mouth...


Having seen the webby little worm bastards up close and experienced their disgustingness, I have no desire at all to consume any part of them, no matter how divinely delicious the wine in question might be. I simply cannot bring myself to fancy a sip of hooch made from one of nature's very plagues upon our green earth. I would not drink locust cider or bubonic daiquiris, either, Sam I am....

Listen up here people. This is Ray, the maker of AWW and this stuff is REAL and good. Come on over if you want to try it. I'll pour you a glass. I am thrilled to see America's workforce debating the merits of army worm wine and so forth. Your bosses must be so proud of you all! I love this country...

So there you have it folks. It does not give YOU brain worms or the cosmic hee-bee gee bee's. It's simple, pure, organic and crisp. I sort of wish though that I had the time to go that far out of my way to sell about 100 T-shirts. The world would be even a greater place then. Gee, let me think, how can I sell some shirts? HMMM, start a website, register the domain name, pay somewone to build it, do about fifty fucking radio and TV interviews and then have people from all over the world call me AND my relatives begging to buy worm wine? And THEN, then I could have bored losers write detractions on the internet (probably the same type of people who actually watch "Survivor" or "Everybody Loves Raymand", real quality time spent there...) I know, I'll print T-shirts! What fun.
Love,
Raystad

Well... at least there's alwasy Absinthe... ( http://Absinthe.ProtoProtoss.net )

70% Alcohol (140 Proof) Alcohol. Get your mind right.

It is real and it's not bad. I live in duluth mn and have had a chance to partake several times.