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Austin’s Ninth Annual Bug (Eating) Festival
Austin Chronicle ^ | WED. JUN. 1, 2016 | WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

Posted on 06/02/2016 11:28:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Two legs good, six legs tasty!Some people like to eat their crickets plain. Some people like to eat them after the crickets have been dipped in dark, luscious chocolate.

Some people, it seems, prefer to never eat crickets at all – but those people are fewer and fewer, which is why it might be a little crowded, at times, during the ninth annual Bug (Eating) Festival at in.gredients on Saturday, June 4, 4-8pm.

Because crickets, yes: Plain and chocolate-covered – or completely indistinguishable in fluffy, protein-rich flour.

Because mealworms, spiced and baked.

And who knows what other manner of crunchy, delicious arthropods will be available for the public’s snack-related program activities?

Austin’s own Little Herds has wrangled up another fine afternoon of free samples and cooking demonstrations and video screenings and even a bit of (hey, this is Austin) live music for your entertainment & edification in the name of what those who enjoy being polysyllabic call entomophagy.

This all happens, as we said, at in.gredients on the Eastside, the grocery-centered home to so many excellent events and community gatherings and coffee- or kombucha-fueled meetings that we’ve quite lost track of them all.

So don’t you lose track of this fine culinary opportunity, OK, citizen?

The Delysia Chocolatier people will be there, and those Slow Food Austin folks, and representatives from the Grow Network and Aspire, and the ever-industrious women of Crickers crackers. And more, yes, as the event is sponsored by Yelp, as your Austin Chronicle’s Wayne Alan Brenner probably won’t stumble too badly in his emceeing duties, as the first Saturday in June eventually fades among Manor Road’s plethora of drinking and dining venues … and the uneaten, still-living, free-in-the-urban-wild crickets begin their nightly chirp.


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: keepaustinweird; littleherds

1 posted on 06/02/2016 11:28:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

IF... it ain’t flooded out.


2 posted on 06/02/2016 11:30:29 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: nickcarraway

Where is Cal Worthington when you need him?


3 posted on 06/02/2016 11:35:33 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob

Worthington died September 8, 2013, at age 92 at his ranch in Orland, California


4 posted on 06/02/2016 11:37:53 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nickcarraway
If it good enough for John the Baptist....
5 posted on 06/02/2016 11:40:27 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: nickcarraway

Are they good with BBQ sauce?


6 posted on 06/02/2016 11:41:03 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nickcarraway

People have way too much time. There are few jobs to provide worthwhile time usage.


7 posted on 06/02/2016 11:46:58 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: smokingfrog

Almost anything is good with Shiner.


8 posted on 06/02/2016 11:47:26 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: nickcarraway

I met a woman who picked ticks off her horses, then bit the ticks to kill it.

Ticks are hard to kill, but I will pass!


9 posted on 06/02/2016 11:49:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: smokingfrog
edibleinsects
10 posted on 06/02/2016 12:06:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

More weirdness out of liberal Austin.


11 posted on 06/02/2016 12:08:22 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: fwdude

Well, he didn’t have chocolate. How do locusts taste dipped in wild honey?


12 posted on 06/02/2016 12:49:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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We have a few of the red-eyed cicadas coming out up here in Northern Ohio. Not near as many as in the past. I think the overuse of lawn chemicals has killed off a lot of the larvae. Not many butterflies either!


13 posted on 06/02/2016 1:03:37 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Do they have organic, gluten free ones?


14 posted on 06/02/2016 1:54:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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It is the only “meat” common Americans will be permitted to consume, in a few more years time, because “sustainability” dontcha know.


15 posted on 06/02/2016 2:14:05 PM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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To: nickcarraway

Pull the heads and guts (like a mudbug) and roast a bit, to kill parasites. Some folks pull the wings as well.


16 posted on 06/02/2016 2:17:44 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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