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Thread: Would you eat insects?
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Pine Marten
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Originally posted by Ariston:
In a way, the fact that it was a half roach is almost more disturbing if you think about it at all.
Exactly! ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
If I wanted to make y'all queasy, I could tell you some bug stories. *shudder*
No, thank you... this thread is enough to make me go off my lunch as it is! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Graven Image
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Depends on how they are prepared. I have eaten fried grasshoppers. I am sure I have unknowingly eaten bits and pieces over the years in spices and grains. The way I look at it protein is protein.
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The5thMary
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I would much rather eat an insect than a "Rocky Mountain Oyster", a.k.a. deer, moose, elk testicles. Ugh! In college, I had a friend who had been raised in Montana and her family regularly cooked and ate deer testicles. She said they were extremely chewy. I think she was
nuts to do such a thing but she did have a
ball growing up in the wilds of Montana.
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LucyP
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On a bush tucker tour near Darwin in my young adventurous days, I tried green ants (you have to be sure to squash them first, or they bite/sting). As the website says, they do taste lemon-y.
A word of warning to anyone who wants to eat uncooked garden slugs - they can carry the rat lung worm, which can cause meningitis. At least 2 men have been infected (2003 and 2010) after swallowing slugs for a dare.
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The5thMary
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If I was completely unaware of insects in my food, I might be okay. As long as the taste wasn't so extreme to leave me gagging. One of my friends baked some chocolate-chip cricket cookies once for a classroom assignment. She gave me a few and I ate them willingly. Afterwards, she told me what was in them and I felt momentarily ill but then had to shrug it off. I didn't notice anything different, really, except I thought the cookies were crunchier than usual and assumed she had put nuts in the batter. One of my wives had to eat all manner of grubs and things in Navy survival training. She told me that grubs were pretty good when she roasted them. Tasted like walnuts. I certainly couldn't see myself eating any bug/grub/creepy crawly raw
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by no prophet:
If we're on sea bugs, I love crabs, particularly the tamale. This is the stuff in the head and between the halves. It is mostly partly digested things the crab ate. It's the most flavourful part of the thing. We used to go the west coast and it was permitted to simple dive down and net them up, boil them on the beach. Lobsters have disappointed me because they lack this.
Actually....
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Pomona
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Originally posted by The5thMary:
I would much rather eat an insect than a "Rocky Mountain Oyster", a.k.a. deer, moose, elk testicles. Ugh! In college, I had a friend who had been raised in Montana and her family regularly cooked and ate deer testicles. She said they were extremely chewy. I think she was
nuts to do such a thing but she did have a
ball growing up in the wilds of Montana.
Calf testicles are very tender, and extremely delicious.
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Wesley J
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That's bollocks.
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Pine Marten
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Originally posted by LucyP:
A word of warning to anyone who wants to eat uncooked garden slugs - they can carry the rat lung worm, which can cause meningitis. At least 2 men have been infected (2003 and 2010) after swallowing slugs for a dare.
Yuck, yuck and thrice yuck! I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of some people! I once pulled out a slug from a bag of potatoes I was peeling - the thought of actually swallowing such a thing.... ewwwww!
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Wesley J
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It seems cooked slugs - or was that snails? - are a delicacy in places like France. Has anyone ever had any? They could be halfway between regular food and insects. (The slugs/snails, not the eaters.)
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Bob Two-Owls
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Escargot can be fantastic if they are fried in lots of garlic butter until tender. They are like a garlicky, buttery, meaty slice of mushroom. Eaten out of the shell they can be like vaguely rubber flavoured whelks which is not nice at all. A chef can make then divine or disgusting as they are pretty tasteless chewy things without a fair bit of attention.
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lilBuddha
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So, what you are really saying is that you like garlic and butter. So why not find a non-disgusting material upon which to put it?
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Ariston
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
So, what you are really saying is that you like garlic and butter. So why not find a non-disgusting material upon which to put it?
Like tasty and toothsome helix snails?
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Bob Two-Owls
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
So, what you are really saying is that you like garlic and butter. So why not find a non-disgusting material upon which to put it?
I like vindaloo sauce as well but it has always been more acceptable on rice than cornflakes*. Who knows why such things get put together, I wouldn't pass up a garlic mushroom in favour of an escargot but if its the only garlicky thing on the menu then...I like my garlic!
*vindaloo cornflakes are delicious but the world seems strangely reluctant to embrace the concept.
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