Attribution: Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is on his own in considering fruit flies as drinking companions and hence as a source of protein.
In a recent non-clinical trial, the keeper inexplicably—and temporarily, abandoned his partially-filled brandy glass, and upon returning to it discovered that it was being shared by a small gathering of drunken fruit flies, that gathering having been reduced by the number of flies the keeper had inadvertently ingested with his return sip of his drink.
Those ingested flies were beyond the spitting-out possibility and thus became tiny sources of protein for the keeper.
The experience reminded the keeper that Kickass friend Mary Schreiner is right in correcting the keeper in his previous comparison of humans and fruit flies: the fruit flies obviously have more value in the grand scheme of things.
Phyllis refuses to drink with fruit flies, but the keeper has no problem sharing his brandy with his new drinking companions:
Prost! And thanks for the protein lift.
Photo by Bill Stokes