The History of Fly Cooking
Welcome to the page devoted to the ancient culinary art of fly-cooking! Eating flies is good for you stomach, good for your health, good for your mind, and good for your soul, PLUS it tastes good as well!!!
Many famous people in history have eaten flies...
Napoleon "I like them battered" Buonaparte
Socrates "Eating flies is good for the mind" the wise
John W. Howard (The 'W' stands for "would you like some flies with that?")
Ludwig Van "Eating flies made me a musical genius" Beethoven
Do you know any famous (or not so famous) people who have eaten flies? Mail me! I'd be happy to add them to my list!
Fly Chefs
Flies have been eaten in many ways throughout human history. The Greeks liked to pickle them in wine. The Arabs liked to boil them in oil. The French liked to have them with garlic, while English traditionally ate them 'raw' - or 'fresh from the windowsill', as they liked to say!
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| Monsieur John le Maggot was one of the first great fly-chefs in history. His chief contribution to fly-cooking was the discovery of fly-pie, a meal which is known now by many great gourmands and epicurians. | George Goopiejaw was the leader of the American school of fly-cooking. Amongst his many culinary discoveries are flied lice, fly steak, and fly cake. | Mmmmmm! Richard de Lice tucks into another maggot-with-chocolate-sauce, a delicious fly desert. The Englishman shot to fame and fortune after he discovered the secret of battered flies. "I like 'em because they're crunchy on the outside and slimy on the inside" he said in an interview. |
The Future - and Beyond!
Kentucky Flied Chicken is one of the most successful fly cooking chains in history. Known the world over for their 'secret grubs and lices', they prove that eating flies is not only good for you, but profitable as well!
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