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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, uh-huh...

—Raw termites taste like pineapple and cooked termites have a delicate, vegetable flavor.

—Grubs (which are larvae) of palm weevils taste like beef bone marrow.

—Fried agave worms (canned in Mexico) taste like sunflower seeds.

—Diving beetles (available in Chinatown in San Francisco) taste something like clams.

—Fried grasshoppers taste like sardines.

—French-fried ants (imported from Colombia) taste like beef jerky.

—A praying mantis, fried over an open fire, tastes like shrimp and raw mushrooms.

—Fried wax moth larvae taste like corn puffs or potato chips.

—Fried spiders taste like nuts.

—Fried baby bees taste like smoked fish or oysters.


7 posted on 04/28/2009 5:37:26 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: bigheadfred

Good summary. Darn accurate palate there GHF.


9 posted on 04/28/2009 7:17:55 PM PDT by Tainan (Where's my FOF Indicator?)
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To: bigheadfred

GHF should have been BHF...bigheadfred


10 posted on 04/28/2009 7:19:01 PM PDT by Tainan (Where's my FOF Indicator?)
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To: bigheadfred

I won’t ask how you came to know all of that...


12 posted on 04/28/2009 9:24:20 PM PDT by Pelham (America, an extinct culture formerly occupying Mexifornia and New Aztlan.)
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To: bigheadfred

Thanks! Is there a cookbook for these? ;’)


14 posted on 04/29/2009 9:40:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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