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08-17-2006, 01:00 PM | #1 |
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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, 01:16 PM | #2 | |
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I don't think I'd pay anything to eat one. They don't look terribly appetizing to me. |
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08-17-2006, 01:35 PM | #3 | |
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08-17-2006, 01:38 PM | #4 |
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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.
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08-17-2006, 02:07 PM | #5 |
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I'd rather be boiled in oil.
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08-17-2006, 04:03 PM | #6 |
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I've been thinking about this, and we eat lobsters and crabs. I wonder what these bugs would taste like?
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08-17-2006, 04:08 PM | #7 | |
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08-17-2006, 04:11 PM | #8 |
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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.
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08-17-2006, 04:19 PM | #9 | |
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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. |
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08-17-2006, 05:50 PM | #10 |
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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.
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08-17-2006, 05:43 PM | #11 |
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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.
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08-17-2006, 06:19 PM | #12 |
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I like chicken eggs. Sometimes I feel strange eating them. I reckon it's best not to ponder.......
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08-17-2006, 09:01 PM | #13 | |
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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.
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08-17-2006, 08:33 PM | #14 |
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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.
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