Sticks of Varying Utility

Reconstituted, they'll make for a tasty, easily cooked meal. Suitably overcooked, some fish in Japan make for the perfect toiletry:

An ordinance prohibiting the release of black bass and other alien fish species back into Lake Biwa may help protect the lake's indigenous fish population, but it has also created a headache for locals over how to dispose of the unwanted fish. Help, however, has come from an unlikely new product, a deodorizer made from carbonized fish.

Perhaps the black bass featured on the deodorizer's clever packaging sums it up best when he says, "We no longer eat crucian carp and ayu sweetfish, just odors."


What with the frustration of many American farmers and landowners, might some of this wisdom be applied to the long-ago imported avian juggernaut known as the European Starling?

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