kmsgameboy
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Im sure we have all heard of chocolate covered ants and such but have any of you actually thought about trying them or any other insects?
Chocolate Covered Ants and Oven Roasted Grasshoppers
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Peter Clausen
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Thought about...thought about?
Tried 'em, liked 'em, would do it again!
Here's a photo of some grasshopper tacos my wife and I shared at a Mexican restaurant few years back:
Tried 'em, liked 'em, would do it again!
Here's a photo of some grasshopper tacos my wife and I shared at a Mexican restaurant few years back:
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PhilinYuma
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My experience with eating chocolate covered grasshoppers about forty years ago was not as happy as yrs, Peter, but it taught me a valuable lesson.
Jeanine, LOML, saw some in a store in Old Town in Chicago and persuaded me to buy six. When we got them home, the chocolate had begun to melt and stick them together in an unappetizing glob, so we put them in the freezer and then Jeanine separated them and put them on two plates. I grabbed a couple and started munching, and if I had been alone, I would have spat them out, but partly because i didn't want to be seen as a wimp, and partly because they were expensive, I choked them down.
I then noticed that Jeanine hadn't touched hers and asked her if she wasn't going to at least try one since buying them was her idea. She gave me a dazzling smile and said, "What do you think I am, a ###### lizard?"
Jeanine, LOML, saw some in a store in Old Town in Chicago and persuaded me to buy six. When we got them home, the chocolate had begun to melt and stick them together in an unappetizing glob, so we put them in the freezer and then Jeanine separated them and put them on two plates. I grabbed a couple and started munching, and if I had been alone, I would have spat them out, but partly because i didn't want to be seen as a wimp, and partly because they were expensive, I choked them down.
I then noticed that Jeanine hadn't touched hers and asked her if she wasn't going to at least try one since buying them was her idea. She gave me a dazzling smile and said, "What do you think I am, a ###### lizard?"
Idolofreak
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I've never eaten any bugs, but I REALLY want to try grasshoppers. I think a Mexican friend of ours gave us a recipe for fried grasshoppers once, but if we can't find it there's always the internet.
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kmsgameboy
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I just cant help it. Ever since I saw some roasted crickets Ive wanted to try some or maybe some grasshoppers, ants, or scorpions.
Idolofreak
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There's a show on the Travel Channel called Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern (You've probably seen it). He goes all over the world eating the weirdest foods he can find (Spit-roasted guinea pigs in Ecuador, scorpion kebabs in lots of Asian countries, fried tarantulas in Cambodia, etc.). :chef: Anyway, this farmer in New York is friends with him and makes all sorts of bug meals. Mealworm candy apples, dragonfly salad, roasted tarantula, and lots of other stuff with grasshoppers and scorpions. Andrew tried the tarantulas on one episode and said they taste like crab meat with tasteless black goo. Yummy! :chef: Lots of protein, too.
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gadunka888
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some guy from my school caught grasshoppers and cooked them over a campfire. The only thing I could think of while he was eating them was this image i saw on the internet of a grasshoppers leg which barely had any organs inside and instead had nematodes...
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Idolofreak
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Well, once you cook them it kills every single germ and/or parasite on them, so it's healthy.
