Crispy Mealworms anyone ?

Interesting item from BBC news - well some folk already eat snails, shrimps and prawns etc., which I guess are pretty similar.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29865959

a-a

 

anyone for vine weevils, go lovely with a martini

 

Why not?

I've eaten one of these .... (fairly sure I've posted the story before, so won't bore you)

 

yuk!

 

Was it for a dare?

 

No not really
But, the reason that one is still on the plate is because ... the other person had "pretended" to eat it ... so I thought I would "man up" and have the other one ... only he put his back on the plate *after* I had eaten mine

 

Sounds like a double dare to me.

 

Yup ... but only one of us left the table branded a "wimp"

No different really from eating winkles from the beach when I was a kid; or escargot when I went to Paris. Lurve shrimp/prawns (and liver and herring roe and .... MARMITE! )
No one could accuse me of being a "fussy" eater

 

Bogies with crash helmets.

Sea flies.

 

Silly Billy ... they don't ride motorcycles

 

They sometimes ride the white horses though.

 

Going back to the original topic ...

.... if that was all I could afford and was available ...

... too right I would eat bugs!

Actually, when I think back to my ex-MIL's cooking .... I'd rather have had bugs!

 

My Taiwanese mate had grilled wasps as a delicacy at his wedding.

Our aversion to these things is purely a cultural thing. There is no actual logic to it. We eat crabs but would freak at the idea of easting a spider. We'll eat the bum of one animal yet freak at the thought that another animal was sneakily included in our burgers. We'll eat shrimps and prawns which are related to woodlice. Would we eat woodlice? We eat cockles and muscles, but snails are, by all normal people, considered disgusting.

 

That's why I use a saucepan now instead of a kettle

 

Have you asked the French if they consider themselves "normal" ?
(No wonder Calais is bursting at the seams - refugees all terrified of having to eat snails!!! )