jungle people dont eat bugs

[rwc1969]

Speaking of eating bugs and Mc'D's. What is that new McDouble made of?

It used to be the double cheeseburger on the dollar menu, now the double cheese is listed elsewhwere for more than a buck, and the new dollar "burger?" is called the McDouble. Mc Double what?

I asked em "what was in it?" and they said "meat!" ?????

[crashdive123]

I'm guessing the difference is no cheese?

[Rick]

Now there's a new commercial. Instead of "Where's the beef?", it could be "Who cut the cheese?".

[Camp10]

Would you like to super size your cut cheese, sir?

[RangerXanatos]

The McDouble is the same as the Double Cheeseburger except it has only 1 slice of cheese instead of two.

[crashdive123]

Soooooooooo. They did cut the cheese.

[Ted]

soooooooooo. They Did Cut The Cheese.

Roflmao!!!!!!!!!!

[neondog]

I've eaten lots of cooked bugs when I was down on my luck, cleaning out the cupboard and found that the Jiffy mix was buggy. Also ate a lot of ants as a youngster. The small black ones had a habit of crawling all over the wild strawberries so me and my friend decided we'd just eat the whole package. No ill effects that I could notice over the hunger pains.

[klkak]

Mom, my sisters and I were real poor when I was a kid. Mom didn't feed us bugs. I shot deer, coons, squirrel, porcupines, some birds, caught fish in the creek....whatever I could get my sights or hands on and mom cooked it with the veggies from the garden.

There are to many things out there to eat other then bugs!

note: (Bear is an idiot)

[rwc1969]

The McDouble is the same as the Double Cheeseburger except it has only 1 slice of cheese instead of two.

Same meat? I think it's made of nightcrawlers or something.

[Old GI]

I used to eat bugs all the time - then I had to stop riding my Sportster.

[sgtdraino]

How does this jive with the general rule that, if you don't know any better, it is safer to eat unidentified things that crawl, than it is to eat unidentified plants?

[mcgyver]

One day I arrived at my friends house just as he was removing a small meatloaf from the oven.
It had been a long three hour drive, so when he said "your just in time for supper" I was happy for the offer. It was some of the best meatloaf I've ever had.
After supper, while shooting the breeze over a cocktail he grins and asks if I really liked his meatloaf.
Uh oh! Why I ask.
As he get up and starts to run, he tells me it was 50% earthworm.
Well after about 15 minutes of chasing him around the house with a chair leg, I calmed down enough to admit It was really good.
He explained that he boiled and skimmed the crawlers then mixed them 50-50 with hamburger before making the meatloaf.
In hide sight, I'm not sure I would have tried it knowing ahead of time what it was, but I would eat it again after trying it.
I know I'm talking worms, not bugs. But really, once you crossed the line?

[hybrid]

Aborigines used to treat some "bugs" as a bit of a staple food in some areas, sometimes a treat in others. Sugarbag ants in particular are very highly regarded, though they are a desert rather than a rainforest thing. Bogong moths, hoppers, a few different kinds of bugs were all chowed on and in some places still are. Everything but the sugarbag ants gets cooked. Termite larvae get toasted too.

Some bugs can make you pretty sick, whether from pesticide residue (though you would have to eat quite a few for that to be a serious issue, most pesticides being cumulative in nature), having themselves been eating toxic plants, pathogens from plants, soil and dung, and some just come preloaded with toxins.

Insects are also high in chitin... the same stuff fungi are made of. It is VERY hard for most people to digest this stuff and in the same way as fungi, people have confused a serious pain in the stomach with actual poisoning. Most cultures that have made an art of eating bugs typically dry toast over coals, or fry up with seasonings and vinegar etc to break it down a little, just like fungus.

Monarch butterflies make a lot of cats sick, apparently.Many caterpillars here are very nasty to eat and often have irritant hairs. Irritation and injury from caustic compounds, and sharp parts could lead to GI tract issues.

Basically, treat bugs as the meat they pretty much are. Cook well, don't eat from shady sources and accept that a farm raised lamb is probably safer eating than some rat you caught in a sewer :P

Or use them as bait to catch a nice feed of fish.

[OldLaughingLady]

I notice that many of jungle native people here do not eat insects and worms and such. My wife is one of these and I asked her about this as we were watching Man Vs. Wild once again and Bear was eating some raw beetle. She says this makes her sick. I said may people here eat bugs and you can buy insects at local markets. She says Isaan people eat bug. (snip)

As a counterpoint, my Thai wife and her friends all eat bugs regularly. Mostly fried grubs and grasshoppers with pepper on them. I eat them too; they're delicious! Also, my wife's mother goes foraging almost everyday for wild edibles, often raiding red ant nests for the bodies and eggs. (This too is delicious.) I'm in central Thailand.

Most modern Thai's, though, have lost the old skills. Is your wife one of the hill tribe people or something?

[pete lynch]

On the radio the other day they said that 90% of us have swallowed at least one spider that crawled into our mouths while sleeping!...LOL

Where's the duct tape!

I like BUGS.........King Crab, Snow Crab, Shrimp, Lobsters.....Mmmm Bugs Good.

Yeah, sea bugs are too big to yuck people out like the little land bugs do.

[crashdive123]

Hey there OldLaughingLady - when you get a chance, how about stopping by the Introduction section and tell us a bit about yourself. Thanks. http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...splay.php?f=14

[Ole WV Coot]

How does this jive with the general rule that, if you don't know any better, it is safer to eat unidentified things that crawl, than it is to eat unidentified plants?

Now that right there is a strong statement and brings up a point to ponder. I'll have to do some deep thinking or take a nap on that one.

[Rick]

Shall we guess which one you'll do, Coot? Coot? Coot? Well would you look at that.