8/17/2006: Insect snacks

Undertoad · 08-17-2006, 01:00 PM

If we're gonna joke about eatin' 'em all the time, we should be able to stomach this item, in which those larvae beasties are for sale as snacks. I believe this one came from a Japanese item about China, or maybe it was a Chinese item about Japan -- can't remember.

The next question is, how much money to eat one o' those kebabs?

glatt · 08-17-2006, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

The next question is, how much money to eat one o' those kebabs?

I don't think I'd pay anything to eat one. They don't look terribly appetizing to me.

Pancake Man · 08-17-2006, 01:35 PM

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he next question is, how much money to eat one o' those kebabs?

They pay you to take them off their hands.

barefoot serpent · 08-17-2006, 01:38 PM

the pupae maybe -- only if a very large cold beer was in my other hand; the seahorses -- only if I'd already had six+ beers prior.

Shawnee123 · 08-17-2006, 02:07 PM

I'd rather be boiled in oil.

Uryoces · 08-17-2006, 04:03 PM

I've been thinking about this, and we eat lobsters and crabs. I wonder what these bugs would taste like?

Shawnee123 · 08-17-2006, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Uryoces

I've been thinking about this, and we eat lobsters and crabs. I wonder what these bugs would taste like?

I don't eat those, either!

9th Engineer · 08-17-2006, 04:11 PM

I tried an oil-fried larve once(not nearly as big as those honkers though) and the only improvement the cooking imparted was that they were relatively solid instead of oozy squirt-into-your-mouth-as-you-bite-down juicy. They tasted like a fried mixture of strong cheese and stale milk.

glatt · 08-17-2006, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Uryoces

I've been thinking about this, and we eat lobsters and crabs. I wonder what these bugs would taste like?

I saw a show once on PBS, probably, where natives in the Amazon were eating huge spiders. They were like tarantulas. Real hairy with fat meaty legs. They roasted them over hot coals on sticks. The roasting burned off the hair. The 'host' of the show tried some of the spiders and said the meat in the legs tasted just like crab meat. He liked them.

I bet cicada pupae taste different though. Like the bodies of a crab or lobster instead of the meaty legs. If you ever got some of those crab or lobster guts in your mouth, you know they are kind of bitter tasting.

capnhowdy · 08-17-2006, 05:43 PM

Looks yucky to me.

We may all be surprised to know what we would eat if forced into the survival mode. After a few days of fasting, these guys could be pretty enticing. Especially cooked.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-17-2006, 05:50 PM

The pupae?......have at it.
But the Seahorses make me sad. Not because they're cute and have a warm and fuzzy name. Actually the little suckers are pretty interesting beasties but badly overfished.

capnhowdy · 08-17-2006, 06:19 PM

I like chicken eggs. Sometimes I feel strange eating them. I reckon it's best not to ponder.......

mcnugget91 · 08-17-2006, 08:33 PM

But seahorses are fish, not insects. I wonder if they taste like fish?

On another note, I think the males seahorses hold the eggs and give 'birth' to the baby seahorses.

Ibby · 08-17-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by capnhowdy

I like chicken eggs. Sometimes I feel strange eating them. I reckon it's best not to ponder.......

My sister's favorite food is fried scorpion on a stick. I see things like this every day. Doesn't phase me anymore. I lived just up the hill from the Wan Chai Meat Market in Hong Kong.

wolf · 08-17-2006, 10:17 PM

If the Seahorses were preserved as a sort of souvenier one could put in one's pencil cup, I'd have one. But not as a snack.

I think it comes down to not eating things that we antropomorphize. Or, in the case of the buggies, look really icky. I am not living in the middle of the Kalahari. When all the McDonalds are gone, I'll consider cannibalism before eating cockroaches on a stick.

One of my friends won't eat pork since she saw Babe. I didn't think the movie was much more than charming, so I don't have any problems eating ham.

08-17-2006, 01:00 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/17/2006: Insect snacks If we're gonna joke about eatin' 'em all the time, we should be able to stomach this item, in which those larvae beasties are for sale as snacks. I believe this one came from a Japanese item about China, or maybe it was a Chinese item about Japan -- can't remember. The next question is, how much money to eat one o' those kebabs?

08-17-2006, 01:38 PM	#4
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	the pupae maybe -- only if a very large cold beer was in my other hand; the seahorses -- only if I'd already had six+ beers prior. __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

08-17-2006, 02:07 PM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I'd rather be boiled in oil. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-17-2006, 04:03 PM	#6
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	I've been thinking about this, and we eat lobsters and crabs. I wonder what these bugs would taste like? __________________ The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out.

08-17-2006, 04:11 PM	#8
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	I tried an oil-fried larve once(not nearly as big as those honkers though) and the only improvement the cooking imparted was that they were relatively solid instead of oozy squirt-into-your-mouth-as-you-bite-down juicy. They tasted like a fried mixture of strong cheese and stale milk. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

08-17-2006, 05:43 PM	#10
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Looks yucky to me. We may all be surprised to know what we would eat if forced into the survival mode. After a few days of fasting, these guys could be pretty enticing. Especially cooked. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-17-2006, 05:50 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The pupae?......have at it. But the Seahorses make me sad. Not because they're cute and have a warm and fuzzy name. Actually the little suckers are pretty interesting beasties but badly overfished. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-17-2006, 06:19 PM	#12
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I like chicken eggs. Sometimes I feel strange eating them. I reckon it's best not to ponder....... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-17-2006, 08:33 PM	#13
mcnugget91 Provocateur Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9	But seahorses are fish, not insects. I wonder if they taste like fish? On another note, I think the males seahorses hold the eggs and give 'birth' to the baby seahorses. __________________

08-17-2006, 10:17 PM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	If the Seahorses were preserved as a sort of souvenier one could put in one's pencil cup, I'd have one. But not as a snack. I think it comes down to not eating things that we antropomorphize. Or, in the case of the buggies, look really icky. I am not living in the middle of the Kalahari. When all the McDonalds are gone, I'll consider cannibalism before eating cockroaches on a stick. One of my friends won't eat pork since she saw Babe. I didn't think the movie was much more than charming, so I don't have any problems eating ham. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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