Fall is here and Pumpkin Pancakes are back!
I was sitting in the Breadboard the other day sipping a delicious better but not bitter strong cup of Goodbean coffee thinking about the locust. While we have had fires and smoke in the State of Jefferson, as far as I know, we’ve never had to endure a locust plague. As I was thinking about this, Henry rattled off the specials which I’d already seen on Breadboardashland.com and I told him I’d have the Chicken-Apple Sausage Frittata with a side of a single Pumpkin Pancake (knowing that I would have the Nutella-stuffed French Toast tomorrow) and he could tell I was distracted and he wanted to know what was up so I asked him if he knew anything about locusts. Well, he’s a smart guy, having worked at the Breadboard for some time, and he told me that it was amazing that locusts could swarm as thick as 160 million locusts per square mile but they NEVER collided with one another. Dumbfounded, I asked how this was possible, and he told me it was because behind each of a locust’s two compound eyes is a motion-sensitive neuron called the lobula giant movement detector and when a collision appears imminent, these neurons send messages to the wings and legs, prompting the locust to act quickly. In fact, its reaction is five times faster than the blink of an eye. “Wow,” I said. He sure had impressive insect knowledge. Then, I asked him if I could get a side of some of that delicious thick cut bacon. Just another morning at the Breadboard…