September 12, 2007: Japanese wasp crackers

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.

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.

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.

From the link...

The jibachi senbei, or digger wasp rice crackers, each contain five or six black insects which are clearly visible to the naked eye.

5 or 6? Typical Madison avenue. The picture shows the cookie stuffed full of waspy goodness, but the truth is in the fine print.

I'll ask the question:

What about the stingers?!?!?!?!

"...output is limited as the wasps are caught in the wild for optimum flavour..."


So these are free-range wasps?

Do they have any milk-fed wasps? Those are the most tender.

What's the difference between a WASP and a Cracker anyway? Somebody ask freshness...

Oh no you di'int!

Cracker ass cracker.

Flint;384473 wrote:

What's the difference between a WASP and a Cracker anyway? Somebody ask freshness...

Wasps are the bosses. Crackers are the peons. It leads to a great deal of cognitive dissonance for those of us crackers who got promoted into management while the wasps were distracted by their golf games.

Flint;384473 wrote:

What's the difference between a WASP and a Cracker anyway? Somebody ask freshness...

:headshake



:rotflol:

Well at least nobody asked if they have Jews in crackers. :headshake

:lol: what flavor is your bf anyway? :p

he's chocolate....or pumpernickel, i think

I saw a loaf of bread at the store, billed as "DARK PUMP" ... srsly

monster;384514 wrote:

:lol: what flavor is your bf anyway? :p

As of a week ago, he tastes like EX.

Sheldonrs;384525 wrote:

As of a week ago, he tastes like EX.

Oh dear, sorry. I wondered if my impertinent question was a little below the belt....

Ewwwww!:vomit:

Bee nice.

monster;384527 wrote:

Oh dear, sorry. I wondered if my impertinent question was a little below the belt....

Not to worry. It was my idea to end it and it probably should have been done long ago.

As for below the belt, it's where i do my best work. ;-)

At least you don't sound terribly heartbroken, Shel. How long were you lads an item, anyway?

When you consider that wasps eat spiders which eat flies which eat poo, that just has nastiness written all over it.

rfoxx;384645 wrote:

When you consider that wasps eat spiders which eat flies which eat poo, that just has nastiness written all over it.

yeah but they'e wild caught! that makes all the difference. It's free-range poo. healthy poo. the type that falls onto lush meadows and makes beautiful flowers grow

Of course, the plants that make up most of the rest of the cracker eat poo directly.

Just because they're caught in the wild, doesn't mean they haven't been eating food that's full of hormones and insecticide. And just how brutal are those 80 year olds to the helpless wasps they slaughter?

Why they boil them like lobsters... throw them screaming into the cauldron, while they do that old man cackle. The nicer ones only do it to wasps cutting across their lawn.

Flint;384473 wrote:

What's the difference between a WASP and a Cracker anyway? Somebody ask freshness...

10,000 points to Flint!!! Bravo! -from an original CAC (crackerasscracker):D

Am I the only one who is wondering how, exactly, does one "hunt" wasps?

I'm guessing a powerful insecticide sprayed from far away. Think: RAID.
In my experience, you have to SOAK them with it. Wasps are tough SOB's.

So, maybe the boiling is more to clean off the bodies than to cook?
(I'm sure they're totally safe to eat after boiling!)

Am I the only one who is wondering how, exactly, does one "hunt" wasps?

I guess they use bee-bee guns.

Maybe they don't use pesticide to catch the wasps. Maybe they just suck them up with a vacuum cleaner like this guy.

glatt's link wrote:

The catch above is from leaving the machine running for 9 hours straight while I went to work. The machine doesn't suck the wasps out of the nest, it just catches most of the wasps that come back from the field. Coming out of the nest, most of them are smart enough to crawl away from the suction before getting airborne, but coming back, they get get sucked in on the landing approach.

That's one day's worth of wasps, from a single location. :yelsick:

[QUOTE=Adam;384815]Am I the only one who is wondering how, exactly, does one "hunt" wasps?[QUOTE]

Maybe they catch them one by one with chopsticks.

Sheldonrs;384525 wrote:

As of a week ago, he tastes like EX...

...LAX?

hey, ya think if i put dog shit on a stick, people will buy it? better yet, what if i called it art, how much could i sell it for?

How about Poop in a Cup?

monster;385258 wrote:

How about Poop in a Cup?

Isn't that the Justin Timberlake song?

monster;385258 wrote:

How about Poop in a Cup?

How about Poop in a Can (or 90 cans)

Shawnee123;385275 wrote:

Isn't that the Justin Timberlake song?

it's my poop in a cup!

1...squat on top of a cup

2...put your dump in the cup

3...put a top on the cup


it's my poop in a cup!

I used to sing a song that went like this:

Poo-poo! Pooin' it up!
Woo-ooo! Gonna poo in a cup!

Srsly, I wouldn't login at midnight on Saturday just to make that up.

:::goes back to doing homework:::

i trust that everyone saw the reply video from this wicked hot chick?
[youtube]3xElIik0Ys0[/youtube]

So can I get some waspsabe to go with my cracker?

Undertoad;384826 wrote:

I guess they use bee-bee guns.

Ya, that's a good one.

Interesting, an IOTD that I wouldn't suggest eating.