http://www.ediblegeography.com/edible-cellphones/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.ediblegeography.com/edible-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-85 stml Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:30:42 +0000 http://www.ediblegeography.com/?p=1062#comment-85 Those “organised gangs of shit poachers” sound a lot like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosher" rel="nofollow">toshers</a> - the gangs who used to rummage through the sewers of Victorian London. They too saw their reputations - and fortunes - revived by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stink#Jobs_prior_to_and_during_the_Great_Stink" rel="nofollow">an ecological catastrophe</a>, and developed a resistance to one of the of the greatest hazards of the age (in their case, typhus) through their work. Those “organised gangs of shit poachers” sound a lot like toshers – the gangs who used to rummage through the sewers of Victorian London. They too saw their reputations – and fortunes – revived by an ecological catastrophe, and developed a resistance to one of the of the greatest hazards of the age (in their case, typhus) through their work.

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