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 publics snack-related program activities?
Austins 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 weve quite lost track of them all.
So dont 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 Chronicles Wayne Alan Brenner probably wont stumble too badly in his emceeing duties, as the first Saturday in June eventually fades among Manor Roads plethora of drinking and dining venues
and the uneaten, still-living, free-in-the-urban-wild crickets begin their nightly chirp.
IF... it ain’t flooded out.
Where is Cal Worthington when you need him?
Worthington died September 8, 2013, at age 92 at his ranch in Orland, California
Are they good with BBQ sauce?
People have way too much time. There are few jobs to provide worthwhile time usage.
Almost anything is good with Shiner.
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!
More weirdness out of liberal Austin.
Well, he didn’t have chocolate. How do locusts taste dipped in wild honey?
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!
Do they have organic, gluten free ones?
It is the only “meat” common Americans will be permitted to consume, in a few more years time, because “sustainability” dontcha know.
Pull the heads and guts (like a mudbug) and roast a bit, to kill parasites. Some folks pull the wings as well.
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