Originally Posted by tore

Food never gets ants here unless perhaps you're on a picnic in a forest, but I guess you have more invasive (pun) species down there

We actually have a species of ant in this country which is small and black and called sugar ant. I think they're called that because they're very fond of sugar, but some say they also taste good and it's the only species I know of that you could expect to find in a home, although that's rare. A guy I lived with some ten years back used to occasionally eat them when he found them outside I think he described them as sweet and a bit spicy, like a little zing which I guess may have been the ants' poison gland.

I never actually tried it yet, but perhaps I should. It's this little fella :



For norwegian ants, they're quite small. There are much larger species in the forests, but I've never heard of anyone eating them despite the fact they're quite abundant. If you poke a hive with a stick, they give off this faintly sickly smell of formic acid, so I've never wanted to try.