Sorry, I couldn't stop myself!
Posted on 05/20/2005 5:42:44 PM PDT by JimSEA
Health authorities yesterday warned villagers not to eat crickets or sell them as food after more than 100 people in Ban Phai district were hospitalised with nausea and diarrhoea this week. The patients all had eaten fried crickets that were bought either from a local market or from street hawkers.
A handful of villagers were hospitalised late Sunday night with nausea and diarrhoea, with the number swelling by around another 100 on Tuesday, said Ban Phai Hospital director Dr Prayoon Kowit.
All said they ate fried crickets that were either bought at Ban Phai Market or from street hawkers driving around villages, Prayoon said.
Fried-cricket samples have been sent to the Medical Science Centre to determine if people got sick because of unsanitary cooking conditions or toxic contamination, the doctor said.
Chu Latha, 73, who has been eating fried crickets for decades, said her son had bought raw crickets from Ban Phai market and then fried them.
Family members later developed nausea and diarrhoea after eating the insects and had to go to hospital, she said.
The Khon Kaen Health Office yesterday issued a warning urging villagers not to sell or eat cricket, no matter how well they were cooked.
The Nation
KHON KAEN
Sorry, I couldn't stop myself!
Bugs? I pay my exterminator about $25/month to make sure I don't have to look at them, yet alone EAT them.
Probably frying them in Hydraulic oil didn't help.
| Bugs? I pay my exterminator about $25/month to make sure I don't have to look at them, yet alone EAT them.
Whenever I move into a new place, I always go out into the back yard and make an announcement. I inform the bugs that they are welcome to enjoy the outdoors, but God help the one I find in the house. There are always a few miscreants who ignore my warning, to their peril. |
So they had fish and bait on the menu?
I wouldn't be suprised.
After that Tsunami, they couldn't be sure whether fish or humans would show up for lunch.
The bluegill in my pond can't seem to grasp the dangers of eating crickets, either. Many of them wind up golden brown on a plate next to the hush puppies.
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If an animal is sick, it's not considered kosher.
Locusts are good with honey.
Of all the odd things in Southeast Asia, I have eaten ant's eggs, mostly to avoid offending the elderly man who offered them (I wished later that I had offended him). Now the deep fried frog skins are kind of good but, as I ate a lot of frog's legs in Arizona, it is not that strange.
Most of the really gross stuff (snake blood/intestines, bear penis, etc.) is connected with Chinese medicine and thus easily avoided by most everyone.
| All this illness could be related to retroactive retching reflex.
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LOL you guys eat a lot of bugs there - ever eaten one of those big water bugs from the rice paddies?
Damn those musloons will eat anything, but pork. NSNR
Yeah, but I want the kind that are fried in old transformer oil, with plenty of PCBs.
LOL! Me too, I guess exotic food isn't for everyone.
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You and I have very similar opinions about the bug world.
I have proactive retching reflex. Just the thought of eating bugs...