Author Topic: Ants (Read 652 times)

Nilsen · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:11:56 AM »

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Originally posted by SunKing
Ate those too at an Air Force Survial seminar when I was in the BoyScouts. If I remeber correctly the crickets and worms didn't taste bad but I threw up when I had to eat a moth. The moth dust did me in.

i guess you had them all raw then, or did you get them cooked?

SunKing · « **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:18:24 AM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
i guess you had them all raw then, or did you get them cooked?

I remeber collecting bugs out in a field. When we returned the officers told us which ones we could eat. They also had millworms ect in foam containers.

straffo · « **Reply #17 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:20:18 AM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
wtf????? is that choklit???

yep

crispy chocolate

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:25:03 AM »

In the navy we didnt eat bugs. We got showed how to make a "great" meal from stuff you find on the shoreline and within snorkeling depth from shore. As luck would have it, the cook on our boat also was a seafood "expert" so he showed us some additional great tips.

I fondly remember the first stip out to an island with a bunch of friends the summer after I left the navy. Everyone brought their grills and food except me

The look on their faces when i stolled around the shorline with a bucket and came back to the camp fire with loads of little "gems" that i boiled in a pot. Tasted ok, but the look on their faces was priceless. This is the kind of food that city dwellers pay ****loads for to eat in resturants.

I do it a couple of times a summer now too, but mostly for fun and to show others what you can eat, and how good the food can be if you take the time to make it.

Saintaw · « **Reply #19 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:31:10 AM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
This is the kind of food that city dwellers pay ****loads for to eat in resturants.

no sh***!

Last year, we went out for dinner with another couple comming from Poland. i figured they hadn't tasted lobster yet... so, we decided to go for that. Found a place called "la maison du Hommard" ... as we are sitting, the waiter tells me they have this great offer for sme Normandy lobster at 11 euros. great! It's going to be nice and cheap i think...I'll invest the rest in some nice wine.

when the bill came, i almost had a stroke... the waiter had forgotten to mention that those 11 euros were 11 euros / 100 grams. I ended up with a 480+ bill... I haven't eaten lobster since.

Nilsen · « **Reply #20 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:34:07 AM »

Lobster is good food but imo overrated as most high-end foods like fish eggs from russia.

Hawklore · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2006, 10:01:57 AM »

Haha!!

Thats great!!

Goomba · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2006, 10:58:16 AM »

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"They aren't yucky Daddy...they are salty."

Priceless. Out of the mouths of babes...

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:06:08 AM »

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Lobster is good food but imo overrated as most high-end foods like fish eggs from russia.

I consider them as water insects and dont eat them also

I had to order 2 X paella in spain but i let my girlfriend eat those insects.

yukkie

Hangtime · « **Reply #24 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:33:24 AM »

I read somewhere that Larry Niven, when served a Lobster began to interrogate it.

"Lowly cretin.. how many others like you have arrived? Who are your leaders? What planet are you from?.... SPEAK!" (jabs it with fork) looks at wide eyed waiter... "Bring me another, this one refuses to talk!"

eagl · « **Reply #25 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:39:06 AM »

The "salty" taste of ants is usually due to the citric acid they produce, but most people consider it to be more "lemony". You can actually make survival "lemonade" by drowning enough of the little buggers in a cup of water, but I think I'd have to be really bored to spend any time doing that in a survival situation.

Mustaine · « **Reply #26 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:50:58 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
The "salty" taste of ants is usually due to the citric acid they produce, but most people consider it to be more "lemony". You can actually make survival "lemonade" by drowning enough of the little buggers in a cup of water, but I think I'd have to be really bored to spend any time doing that in a survival situation.

it sounds like an excretion from an and would be piss.... meaning you'd be drinking piss-water

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #27 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:05:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
no sh***!

Last year, we went out for dinner with another couple comming from Poland. i figured they hadn't tasted lobster yet... so, we decided to go for that. Found a place called "la maison du Hommard" ... as we are sitting, the waiter tells me they have this great offer for sme Normandy lobster at 11 euros. great! It's going to be nice and cheap i think...I'll invest the rest in some nice wine.

when the bill came, i almost had a stroke... the waiter had forgotten to mention that those 11 euros were 11 euros / 100 grams. I ended up with a 480+ bill... I haven't eaten lobster since.

Thats 55 dollars per pound... Ouch. When i lived in NH it was around 4 dollars per pound for the 1 1/2 pounds and $6 per lb for up to 14 pounders. Its at least twice that on the west coast though.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #28 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:06:15 PM »

One of the weirdest things Ive eaten and liked was pickled pigs feet/knuckles. Mmm mmm good.

RightF00T · « **Reply #29 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:10:50 PM »

Ants taste like a very dry peanut butter....