Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

[PrettySquareGal]

Beats dumpster diving..........maybe......

 

[jamespowers]

The squeamish can wash 'em down with guaro.

Sounds like Cachaca. Uh, no thanks.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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It's weird that some people who eat soft shell crabs (big 'bugs' if I've ever seen one) wouldn't try eating insects.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Sounds like Cachaca. Uh, no thanks.

Brazilian cachaça ... yum!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

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It's weird that some people who eat soft shell crabs (big 'bugs' if I've ever seen one) wouldn't try eating insects.

Or people who wouldn't think of eating snot would eat an oyster (innards look like a giant booger).

 

[Atticus Finch]

Or people who wouldn't think of eating snot would eat an oyster (innards look like a giant booger).

Yep. I had an oyster roast at my house just this weekend. When somebody made a similar comment there was a quiet pause at the table for a few seconds...then everyone went right on slurping down supper.

AF

 

[Noirblack]

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In Costa Rica, there are some small insects that, eaten raw, taste just like black pepper. (Yes, I tried a live one.) They make a good seasoning if real pepper isn't handy.

Lots of insects get eaten in North America too. It's just that it's done unintentionally as bugs and bug bits end up in food without our being aware of it. I suppose it proves the old saying that what you don't know won't hurt you.

:essen:

 

[LizzieMaine]

The only difference between a lobster and a giant cockroach is $11 a pound.

 

[tonyb]

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It's weird that some people who eat soft shell crabs (big 'bugs' if I've ever seen one) wouldn't try eating insects.

Beat me to that very point.

 

[randooch]

The only difference between a lobster and a giant cockroach is $11 a pound.

+1

. . . and don't get me started on shrimp.

 

[Atticus Finch]

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It's weird that some people who eat soft shell crabs (big 'bugs' if I've ever seen one) wouldn't try eating insects.

And if you ever saw what the Atlantic Blue Crab eats, you would be convinced that crabs more than just look like bugs.

AF

 

[Noirblack]

Here's the latest in news about the little extras you can find in your food.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ag-mcdonald-hamburger-rolls-article-1.1007016

 

[jamespowers]

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Lots of insects get eaten in North America too. It's just that it's done unintentionally as bugs and bug bits end up in food without our being aware of it. I suppose it proves the old saying that what you don't know won't hurt you.

:essen:

My grandmother used to work for various canneries around here and even Gerber's. Your ketchup should be considered a meat and vegetable in one. A meal in a bottle. Baby food has it's share as well and the regulations let them have so many bugs parts per million. I hardly ever fed my sons prepackaged baby food. But ketchup:essen:

 

[jamespowers]

The only difference between a lobster and a giant cockroach is $11 a pound.

Lobster was considered a junk seafood years ago. The inmates on Devils Island ate them every single day because they were cheap and plentiful. Now no one forces people to eat them and they even pay for the priviledge.

 

[amador]

OK... the thread is back to normal I see. I left my ball here somepalce...

Back to food. We used to eat new prickley pares and the friut was made into a candy or a jelly. Usually in the spring after a rainstorm there would be new growth that was tender and edible.
Nopalitos and Tunas. My dad would bring some in from work and we would remove the spines and needles before preparing them for dinner or breakfast or lunch or all three.

 

[jamespowers]

Brazilian cachaça ... yum!

You can have it all with horse.

 

[1961MJS]

Or people who wouldn't think of eating snot would eat an oyster (innards look like a giant booger).

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Actually, I asked what they tasted like and a guy told me that basically eating an oyster was like swallowing a hocker. I finally tried three while in Seattle last Summer, he was right, no flavor. The sauce was GREAT though.

I tried escargot years ago and it tasted like Garlic Bread Bubble Gun. I think that there is a California banana slug that is effectively an escargot snail with no shell, and that you could go in the yard and rake them up. If you COULD really get them by the bucket, they would be worth cooking, otherwise, just buy the Garlic Bread.

Delicacy, a food item that grosses us out and we want to sell it to tourists.

Later

 

[Edward]

Oysters were "poor people food" in England once upon a time too. Funny hoe some things do change.

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In Costa Rica, there are some small insects that, eaten raw, taste just like black pepper. (Yes, I tried a live one.) They make a good seasoning if real pepper isn't handy.

How do you get them to stay on the food til you can't get them down yer gullet?

 

[Edward]

I ate a spider once.

 

[amador]

There was a guy in high school who would eat a Mormon Cricket for a quarter.