Polynesian Prayer

[pscot]

Invisible being
Who lives we know not where
And who makes pigs and cowries,
Make some for me.

[trof]

1. Me too!

[pscot]

2. It does have a univeral appeal

[nolabear]

3. Pigs and cowries for everybody!

I like it.

[OriginalGeek]

4. I don't know what a cowrie is

but I bet you can fry it.

[hunter]

5. Carnitas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnitas

[Wait Wut]

6. I have a pineapple.

Does that count? It's waiting to be dried and covered in chocolate. Maybe a cowrie is chocolate? I wouldn't want a chocolate covered pig.

[csziggy]

7. Cowrie shells were used as money by many cultures

Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.



Many people throughout history have found (and still find) the very rounded, shiny, porcelain-like shells of cowries pleasing to look at and to handle. Indeed the term "porcelain" derives from the old Italian term for the cowrie shell (porcellana) due to their similar translucent appearance.[1] Shells of certain species have historically been used as currency in several parts of the world, as well as being used, in the past and present, very extensively in jewellery, and for other decorative and ceremonial purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowry