he owned a farm about 5 miles out of town and was always talking about expanding , catching the next wave of food production , he called it like capybaras ( i had to look up the spelling to get it right ) , which was what they had for rats down there in south america , or the kind of slugs they ate over in africa someplace ( i think they were banana slugs , but whether it because they looked like bananas , or tasted like bananas , or they ate bananas , i forget ) , or ostriches , or buffalo .