Eating Bugs???

[canid]

you can't contract ergotism from spore contact. Claviceps only produces it's toxic alkaloids in it's sclerotial cells, which only form once a colony has matured and then temps have fallen to the 40s or lower [double check that range].

[Elkchsr]

That is a good sign, not many grass hoppers moving around in those temps, and I'll do some research on the topic next week

I think it will go good in some of my classes...

Thanks for the info canid

[Rick]

Good stuff, canid. Thanks.

[AdventureDoc]

Eating bugs is not an entirely benign thing. There are a few risks, besides just some diarrheal issues. Tape worms can be carried by some insects. Hymenolepis Nana is one example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenolepiasis

However, in a dire need for food, you gotta do what you gotta do. Raw meat is another concern, as well. The cooking process does wonders for killing these parasites, though.

[Catfish]

If you've ever eaten a hot dog, you've probably devoured far grosser things than bugs. As others have said, It's all mental.

[Rick]

All true but the hotdog didn't have legs. At least none I could see.

[Catfish]

All true but the hotdog didn't have legs. At least none I could see.

Well they trim the legs off so they'll fit in the bun. Don't you know anything?

[nell67]

Well they trim the legs off so they'll fit in the bun. Don't you know anything?

Way to go Catfish! You tell him! Ha Rick

[Rick]

I never thought about it like that. That probably explains the little tennis shoe I found last time. One must have gotten through.


In my mostestest hateful voice:

Way to go. You tell him. Way to go. Blah, blah, blah!

[Smok]

Ha Doc... Parasites in grasshoppers ???

[AdventureDoc]

Yeah, unfortunately. From my limited understanding, the cooking process kills the parasites in the bugs. Yet another reason for that all important fire!

[marlin22]

I know a whole lot about what you can eat. So if there is another food source i can learn about count me in. There is one problem I’m scared of bugs and can see my self sinking my teeth in to a beetles shell it gives me the shivers. So how do you over come this fear? Is this the same thing as some people can’t eat wild meat such as deer because it gives them the ‘‘shivers’’?

[nell67]

I know a whole lot about what you can eat. So if there is another food source i can learn about count me in. There is one problem I’m scared of bugs and can see my self sinking my teeth in to a beetles shell it gives me the shivers. So how do you over come this fear? Is this the same thing as some people can’t eat wild meat such as deer because it gives them the ‘‘shivers’’?

Close your eyes and pretend it's corn chips??? I dont know,I would be hard pressed to do so myself!

[trax]

I know a whole lot about what you can eat. So if there is another food source i can learn about count me in. There is one problem I’m scared of bugs and can see my self sinking my teeth in to a beetles shell it gives me the shivers. So how do you over come this fear? Is this the same thing as some people can’t eat wild meat such as deer because it gives them the ‘‘shivers’’?

If you're hungry enough to be eating them, you'll probably be past any former concerns.

[crashdive123]

For some, the fear of dying will overcome alot of phobias. When we are placed in extrodiary situations, we can often do extrodanary things. Being afraid of water but jumping in to save a life.

[Beo]

I've eat'n grasshoppers, beetles, fried worms (cooked on a knife blade), crickets, moths, lightening bugs, all kinds of flying insects, ants, and even cooked scorpion over in Desert Storm (which to me is just desert crawfish, all eat'n on a bet execpt for the grasshoppers those I ate in Ranger school cause I was hungry.
Oh yeah as a cop I ate a goldfish for $20.00 as a bet, snuk it off the Lieutenants desk.

[Rick]

Try something you think of as semi exotic. Yucky but doable. Just continue to add to your menu. You don't have to like or want to eat everything. But if you can find a few that you can handle you are just that much better prepared.

I don't eat beetles and I tried a moth once. It had this powdery crap on it that was pretty awful. I don't do grubs either. (shivers).

[marlin22]

Thank you answered my question thousand percent

[Smok]

marlin22 Just glad we could help

[Rick]

Yeah, this whole post has been buggin' me.