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02-03-2012, 01:39 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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There's a store here that sells chocolate covered ants, crickets, and mealworms, very similar to what this website is selling: InsectCandy.com
I actually tried the chocolate covered ants once, and they're not bad. You just have to get over the fact that you're eating an ant. |
02-03-2012, 01:46 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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When I was younger I remember someone got me one of those lollipops with a cricket in the center. The candy lollipop was decent enough, despite kind of looking like a solidified version of Irish Springs body wash. I ended up just swallowing the cricket whole, unless I'm starving I don't see the point of eating bugs.
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02-03-2012, 06:41 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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But for me there's also the culinary aspect of it. Clearly many if not most are completely edible and there are so many insects, they make up over half of all known organisms. If you can get past the stigma, I figure there could be a lot of interesting flavors to explore.
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02-04-2012, 02:44 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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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.
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You don't know how lucky you are, tore, to not have fire ants where you live. You can't even have a picnic or lay in the grass in the state of Florida without being swarmed by the nasty little things. |
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