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In his post, Val said: >Hey Barb - what's wrong with planting the seeds as Nature intended >and eating them? Actually Val, I conducted a research project for my thesis specifically to learn more about prehistoric domestification of animals and plants and recently discovered that waaaaay back in the dawn of time, ALL domesticated plants and animals originated from ONE SINGLE SPECIES! Yes, ONE species is the progenitor of ALL domesticated animals and plants, including YOUR favorite, Val - the humble, innocuous little find-'em-in-every-health-food-store-SPROUT (Calm, yourself, Val... you're starting to hyperventilate). That single animal/plant entity is of the genus "Sproutanimalus domesticanis," which you may already be familiar with, given your obsession with sprouts. Archeologists have pinned down the actual prehistoric individual who was responsible for the original domestication as being a Mrs.. Fern Jones, who was heard to berate her husband Milton one night about the lack of domesticated animals and plants in and around the cave they inhabited with a few other families. ASIDE: You may have heard of this particular group of early prehistoric cave-dwellers - the Goldberg's, Sterns, Finkelmans, and the Jones', to name a few. Anyway, Mrs.. Jones yelled at Milton "Venn is you going to gedt us zsome nize enimals und sproudts und odder weggies to eaten und kip domesdicaded in der cave?? Sheeeesh!..." His response made Milton the VERY FIRST MALE in history to be heard mumbling "VIMMINS!!! Neg, neg, neg...." as he stumbled out of the warm cave into the cold dark night in order to satisfy his wife's yearnings (just like today's male, huh?). Being nobody's fool, Milton hunkered down next to a nearby pond, grabbed a chunk of clay from amongst the reeds, quickly slapped some seeds that had profusely littered the ground onto the clay and hightailed back to the cave. The next morning, it was discovered that Milton had placed the wet clay on top of a dog and lo and behold, the clay had dried in the shape of the dog and was covered in tiny green edible sprouts! "NEAT," exclaimed Mrs.. Jones," I'll call it "Chia-Pet," and soon the cave was full of Chia Pets, hence the birth of the phrase, "Keeping up with the Jones'!" Historians have left it up to US to try to answer that ages old question, "Which came first, the Chia-Pet or the sprout," and THAT you'll have to decide for yourself! Soooo... to answer your original question, it looks like Chia-Pets have been around nearly as long as sprouts. Without a doubt, had God not intended humanity to munch a srout or two right off a Chia-Pet, he wouldn't have let Milton leave the cave that long-ago-night in order to keep his wife from nagging, and in the process to create the first Chia-Pet. As I see it, Val, it's our God-given RIGHT to eat sprouts off of a Chia-Pet! (tho of COURSE, no one who's "IN" would EVER in this life admit to even OWN a Chia-Pet!) <but that's another story> Barb Mallut (sharpening her darts...) <grinning> [log in to unmask]