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09-12-2007 07:36 AM |
September 12, 2007: Japanese wasp crackers
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Spluch catches this one, an animal IotD which has been helpfully pre-baked into a crunchy, stingy form. A Japanese snack baker has come up with the idea of embedding wasps into a rice cracker, Of course, since so many of us enjoy eating crackers with homemade wasp dip.
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Wasp hunters from the village, who are mostly in their 80's, catch them in nearby forests.
They are then boiled in water, dried and sprinkled over the cracker mix, which is then stamped by hot iron cracker cutters.
A bag of 20 crackers costs 1.60 pounds, but output is limited as the wasps are caught in the wild for optimum flavour.
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Right, you don't want to deal with those inferior domesticated wasps, they suck.
At least the aging wasp hunters -- the mighty, proud wasp hunters! -- are not going without employment.
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