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Old 10-21-2009, 06:58 PM
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I am a picky eater, not a big fan of Sushi among many other things. I found something even less enticing to me when I stumbled across this website describing Japanese delicacies and other international treats involving insects as food. Have you eaten insects as food (on purpose)? Do you eat them regularly?



Japanese dishes
* Hachi-no-ko — boiled wasp larvae
* Zaza-mushi — aquatic insect larvae
* Inago — fried rice-field grasshopper
* Semi — fried cicada (Japanese Beetles)
* Sangi — fried silk moth pupae


I have tried candied fried grasshopper and chocolate covered ants, while neither are something I would seek out, they weren't all that bad. Without the candied coating and the chocolate, they are low carb and high protein foods. I would do well to eat more Inago.
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Old 10-22-2009, 02:37 AM
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I do not eat insects nor do I have any desire to try them. I occasionally watch that chunky bald guy eat freaky things (granted I don't consider sushi freaky) on that weird-foods-around-the-world show and that's more than enough for me.
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Old 10-22-2009, 03:45 AM
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I haven't, except in Chinese medicine, silk worms smell horrible. I can't imagine eating them regularly.
Silk worms, leeches, cockroaches (flightless), snakes, wasp nexts, centipedes, gecko, scorpion are things I handle regularly. I'm glad I don't have a condition I would need to consider ingesting them regularly though.
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Old 10-22-2009, 03:53 AM
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I do not eat insects nor do I have any desire to try them. I occasionally watch that chunky bald guy eat freaky things (granted I don't consider sushi freaky) on that weird-foods-around-the-world show and that's more than enough for me.
Did you see him eat balut? :shudder:
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:11 AM
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Yeah no. Unless I get shot down over Bosnia, I'm going to go ahead and skip the bugs and larvae.
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:21 AM
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You some sort of secret agent that would get shot down over Bosnia?
I'm pretty sure you could now get sardines and bread there.
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:26 AM
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Good point. I'll revise my statement: unless I get caught in a time warp and get shot down over Bosnia ca. 1999, I'm going to go ahead and skip the bugs and larvae.
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:28 AM
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Better!

I'm having a hard time thinking where one would have to subsist on bugs, all I can come up with is some third world prison, where one has to buy your food and you don't have anyone to buy it for you.
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Even a desert island ought to have fish.
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Old 10-22-2009, 05:20 AM
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There's that place the Oompa Loompas came from.
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Old 10-22-2009, 05:50 AM
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I hear chocolate has a lot of cockroach in it, perhaps there's an Oompa Loompa connection?
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This is still a better food thread than the pus one.
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I eat shrimp, lobster, and crab. Doesn't gross me out.
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Old 10-22-2009, 03:56 PM
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Mopane worms.

I intend to try one one day.
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I eat shrimp, lobster, and crab. Doesn't gross me out.
Yeah.

Also I have eaten snail. Pretty good actually.
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Old 10-22-2009, 06:10 PM
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I eat shrimp, lobster, and crab. Doesn't gross me out.
Yeah.

Also I have eaten snail. Pretty good actually.
:yeahthat: too; in garlic butter. :yum:
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