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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: eating fried canaries

Today's Globe & Mail repeats portions of a piece from the Seattle Times
which concludes with the claim that ancient Romans "ate fried canaries" as
a way of dealing with hangovers. Does anyone have any idea where this bit
of nonsense comes from? As far as I can tell, the Romans didn't even have a
word for canary; though they knew the islands.

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
The Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
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