Kelly Trueman complains that we Americans have a bias against eating bugs — and roadkill.
Just don’t mention it to Mike Huckabee.
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Know what else tastes nasty? Rocks.
Farbeit from me to wax cataclysmic, but thanks to the enabled masses
who salivate over the promise of a free lunch from Wall Streeters who
feed on their gullibility. we have the prospect of world wide recession, if not depression on the horizon.
Got your water and food stores horded?
If not, creepy crawlies will become your new Bug Mac.
God you’re weird. Hoard away.
Personally, I don’t eat bugs or roadkill because I don’t have to. If the choice was grubs or starvation, I probably wouldn’t be as discriminating.
I have ate roadkill before. Venison on several occasions, if I come up on a fresh killed deer on a cold day I have no qualms with cutting off an undamaged leg quarter. The best ever was a shoulder roast off a black bear that had been hit by a car. Tasted like shit, but how often do you get to try bear meat?
Hillary Clinton looks like she tried to bug diet by her facial expressions. Does anyone know if these bugs can live thru the digestion process and crawl out your ass?
Semaphoricleo wouldn’t have to worry about eating Bug Macs if she/he/it (isn’t that properly written as s/h/it?) had a skill other than trolling….
… which itself isn’t a bad skill, with the right boat and motor….
…teach a troll to fish and they won’t be so fucking annoying?
Cannibals.
Hmmm. A free lunch from Wall Streeters, or a free lunch from a government run by liberals.
Decisions, decisions…
The exoskeleton of insects is chitin, which is a carbohydrate. There really isn’t as much protein in bugs as you might think, but it does up the fiber. If you get them in the larval stage you won’t get the fiber, but they’re easier to get out from between your teeth.
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Got road harvested venison a couple of times. Nearly got one this morning, as a matter of fact.
I’m open to genetically engineered buggy things that are like actually palatable. Kelly sounds like she’s sorta more the free-range bug-eating type though.
Kelly sounds like she’s sorta more the free-range bug-eating type though.
Might need a bug wrangler, in that case:
http://www.nwinverts.com/
spiderlings. What a great word. This is useful though. In college I put my stuff in storage one summer and everything got infested with these thingers. It was horrifying but it wasn’t like I could afford all new stuff, so I had to go over every inch of everything, scraping out egg sacks and shaking everything and stomping what fell out. You should know this for real, cause that fiddle business, not really helpful. God that sucked.
Now that is one brave spam unit.
Still got some stomp left in you, happyfeet? Get him!
Farbeit macht frei.
Isn’t Tuvalu gonna slip under the waves any second now cause of the warmthening? Those rats is gonna get cheaper is all I’m saying.
C’mon guys, cut Semanticleo some slack. Anyone raised by squirrels is bound to be a bit upset by talk of eating them.
I gotta tell you though, those big fat red squirrels down in Kentucky are delicious. Up here in Wyo not so much. They eat pine nuts and taste a bit like turpentine. Disappointing.
Can you guys even begin to imagine how miserable of a person Miss Cleo must be? It must be an absolute chore just to get out of bed in the morning.
Having to call in the crane probably doesn’t help.
“Can you guys even begin to imagine how miserable of a person Miss Cleo must be? It must be an absolute chore just to get out of bed in the morning.”
Funny, JD. I was thinking much the same thing. Nothing anywhere seems to please Cleo. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit that the reason she trolls hereis out of a desperate bid for some human contact because no real person wants to spend a minute of face time with such an out-and-out grumblepuss.
Back on topic – did any of you read the comments to the article? Perhaps an article like that is a public health service, allowing authorities to track down suicidally depressed people before they act.
Swen:
As per you turpentine-tasting critters–soak them in salt water overnight in the fridge. Then sautee them in butter with button mushrooms.
Damn. I just ate some spiders, but now I’m hungry again.
Ah yes, cleo, I remember my grandparents recalling the Great Depression, when all they had to eat was mealworms and Ol’ Scruffy. Scruffy was a good dog, but man did it take forever for him to braise.
Huckabee’s a dick.
If I remember correctly, kosher rules ban bugs–except locusts. Logical, really; if locusts are around, much other food is being destroyed, so it’s an emergency and eating the locusts is allowed.