Eating Bugs???

[Smok]

I have eaten mayflies and when fried they are like Cotton candy grasshoppers when boiled turn red remove their hind legs and their not bad but you need to cook them ,they have a parasite that you most kill mayflies live only 4 days they do not eat so no parasite grubs GOOD a lot of fat in the wild fat is good what do you know that you can add to this

[Stealth]

ants are quiet sweet, you just cant eat too much because they are high in tartaric acid

[Beo]

I ain't never cooked a bug, I just ate it, in the army I ate grasshoppers as quick as I could catch'em, crickets the same way. Never ate a fly cause they tend hang on poop but that's anther thread.

[explodingearth]

bugs are probably one of the easiest and healthy food sources in the wild. if all else faile di could always look for bugs all day long

[trax]

why so many here seem to be in such a hurry to eat bugs when there's all kinds of good food sources out in the wild. I guess if it really was the last resort, but...yeah I usually can do a little better without too much effort.

[explodingearth]

tons of animals eat bugs, all the societal superiority bs aside. its just another food source. only thing i dont like about it is the fact that you can take hundreds or thousands of lives a day opposed to one a week with big game.

[trax]

Hey pal, I didn't rise to my place on the food chain just to cast aside my societal superiority But seriously, my point is, like...yeah how many of them does it take to make a meal?

and some of them crawl around in things like Otay remains and such.

[RobertRogers]

We eat bugs every day whether you know it or not. They are in our food and there is not way to get rid of them all.

Many cultures eat bugs - grasshoppers, for example. No big deal. I figure if you can eat a clam, you can eat anything.

[nell67]

No way I am eating bugs yuk!!!

[Stealth]

they may not fill you up very fast, but they have more protein per unit weight than any game animal meat out there

[corndog-44]

If the human population keeps growing like it is; all of us will be eating farm raised bugs. Only the very wealthy will be eating cattle, hogs, poultry and probably fish. And we all can forget about hunting...there won't be anything left to hunt. An end to life as we know it, eh?

[RobertRogers]

No way I am eating bugs yuk!!!

If you become hungry enough and wish to live, you will eat bugs. I invite you to read accounts of POW's and inmates in concentration camps. Once you get rid of your preconcieved notions you will find that insects are actually very food food.

But, of course, for some people that takes actual starvation.

Like I always say, if you can eat a clam - which is nothing more than a worm in a shell that filter feeds sewerage - then you can eat anything.

[owl_girl]

I heard spider taste kindof like crab which doesn’t sound so bad since I love sea food .

[Beo]

If the human population keeps growing like it is; all of us will be eating farm raised bugs. Only the very wealthy will be eating cattle, hogs, poultry and probably fish. And we all can forget about hunting...there won't be anything left to hunt. An end to life as we know it, eh?

If we grow to big I'm eating all you people first... lol...

[Rick]

Well, I'm dredging up another old post but I ran across this site I wanted to share and didn't want to start another thread.

http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/finl.html

[canid]

nice. that page makes me hunger for arthropods. i try not to discriminate too much, land bugs, sea bugs, all the same noise.

[Rick]

I've actually had my share of insects. Most I don't mind eating. I can't say I've ever had any that were good just okay. I like grasshoppers fried. Ant and termite larvae are okay. I still (and probably never will) be able to bring myself to eat grubs. It's all mental, I know, but still........I read an analogy one time that compared fried grubs to chips with the dip on the inside. Now that's just nasty.

[nell67]

I stand by my earlier assessment of the nasty little critters,bleh

[Rick]

Here's one you can file away in your book of knowledge. It comes from the same site I posted above:

"The best time to go (ant) pupae collecting is one hour after the sun has hit the mound in the morning. The pupae can be collected just under the surface of the mound at this time. Later in the day the pupae will be moved deeper into the mound to avoid excessive heat. After collecting the pupae, replace the soil and thatch to its original place."

[Tony uk]

Fryed earthworms, the big ones anyway go nice and crispy and are easy to find, for the nutritional content im unsure of but if you have other food its good to throw some fryed ones into it.