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                             Hairless monkey chow

> Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying
> less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping
> vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn't
> it?
>
> But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally
> complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I'm
> about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but
> monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates,
> including the great apes.”
>
> Maybe I'll lose weight. Maybe I'll gain superhuman monkey strength. Maybe
> I'll go crazy. Maybe it's too late. Check back here every day to follow
> along with the Monkey Chow Diaries. Comments, criticisms, questions and
> advice can be left on the blog [1].
>
> I'm tired of cooking. I hate scrubbing pots and pans. I've wasted too much
> time in the checkout line. It's time to eat chow.
>

Via Kisrael.com [2], “The Monkey Chow Diaries [3]”

The Monkey Chow Diaries [4] is for Spring [5], who I know will be interested
in this.

This also reminds me of my weekly Costco [6] trip this past Monday. While
there, I came across this five gallon bucket of “Emergency Food Supply”—275
portions of kosher vegetarian meals for about $110.00 (which works out to 40¢
per meal). Ten different meals and enough food to last one person three
months (if you can stand eating the same 10 meals over and over and over
again), with a supposed shelf life of 20 years.

I was almost tempted to get it. Almost.

Update on Monday, June 12^th, 2006

Found the makers [7] of the “Emergency Food Supply” buckets. It's
Nutristorage [8].


[1] http://www.angryman.ca/blog/angryblog.html
[2] http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2006.06.07
[3] http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
[4] http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
[5] http://www.springdew.com/
[6] http://www.costco.com/
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/06/12.1
[8] http://nutristorage.com/

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