jungle people dont eat bugs

[chiangmaimav]

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. (Isaan is northeast area of Thailand.) I never eat bugs. I asked her what she did in the jungle when there was no food. She said "eat vegetable. Eat fish. Eat bird. No eat bug." Then she says ,"if Bearman want to eat bug, why he not make fire first and cook. If you eat and not cook you get sick." As I have written about previously in forum, wife is not impressed by this show. She thinks he has too much money and nothing to do.

I told her he gets paid a lot of money to eat bugs. She says, "good think he get money too much. Have to pay doctor."

[crashdive123]

As I have written about previously in forum, wife is not impressed by this show.

She sounds like a wise woman.

[Pict]

My daughter (8 at the time) watching BG...

"Daddy, I don't like him. Don't do the things he does, you'll get hurt."

Mac

[Sourdough]

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

[Batch]

And mud bugs too!!!

[rwc1969]

Good point. In the south my family never ate bugs and they were dirt poor hillbillies. They ate all kinds a nasty ****, but not bugs.

my other family up here in MI never ate bugs either and they were real poor too during the depression.

I think bug eating must be a micro cultural/ regional thing.

[hunter63]

I don't eat bugs either, unless I catch one accidentally when riding on bike or 4 wheeler.
Moths tastes nasty, june bugs hurt.

Anyone that ever rode a 4 wheeler down trails knows about the swipe stick, for webs and such.

[oly]

I eat bugs, unknowingly but bugs lay there eggs in fruits and vegetables.

[Ted]

Never lived in the jungle, but when I'm fishing, if a grasshopper lands too near, you bet your butt I'll torch him with my bic, pull off his head and spiney part of leg and eat him!

[huntermj]

No you dont scare me at all.
LOL

[Ole WV Coot]

Local people know best anywhere you go. I did take a bite of a softshell crab in my younger years without ill effects. He looked at me, I looked at him and bit him between the eyes. One of us was pretty drunk but I was "convinced" that was the way they were eaten.

[oly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoa7yuzesE
So you still think you dont eat bugs?

[your_comforting_company]

many insects carry parasites. It is dangerous to eat raw bugs because human beings have evolved to be dependent on cooked food. Our bodies just can't handle the things in food that it could 6 million years ago before the discovery of how to make fire.
I suggest that cooking your bugs is much better than eating them raw for that simple reason.
I have never intentionally eaten bugs, unless a worm in an apple counts, and as long as I can make fire and find other wild edibles I will refrain from eating anything raw, especially insects. I'm pretty sure crabs aren't insects.

[FVR]

Not much on eating bugs. May try a large 1/2lb grasshopper oneday but it will have to be cooked and his head will be mounted.

Oh and.......

Bear is an idiot.

Seems to be a theme on most internet sites and facebook even has a Bear is a poser page.

Oh did I mention, Bear is an idiot?

[Ted]

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

[hunter63]

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

I heard that as well, I think we're talking "on purpose".

[Ted]

I don't eat bugs either, unless I catch one accidentally when riding on bike or 4 wheeler.
Moths tastes nasty, june bugs hurt.

.

I've done that too, I think we're taking about "on purpose!"

[hunter63]

Ted, how right you are,LOL

[chiangmaimav]

Coincidentally I just saw tv show on Thai tv which was about dangers of eating insects. It showed people who had swallowed stingers and pincers of various bugs and what it did to them. Also some people died because bugs had ingested pesticide and then were eaten by people.

[Durtyoleman]

I ain't goin bug hunting but protein is protein in a needful situation. The army didn't give us much choice on diet at times...lol they said do and we did. Fortunately most times we have a choice and are free to exercise said choice. I have a friend who is a missionary and she spent some time in other countries and ate what they did....she told me of her diet of cooked grubs and worms (which she said needed catsup badly). I'll pass if micky d's is open, if not, guess I am grubbin' on grubs.


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