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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Curval on June 14, 2006, 05:11:31 AM
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We have a cherry tree in our front yard...more like a bush than a tree actually. I think they are Suriname cherries. Anyway, my two youngest kids love them. I end up having to pick the higher ones for them because they have eaten all of the ones within their reach.
I have found that whenever I pick them one or two ants will rush out of the opening at the bottom of the fruit. I always brush them off and then inspect the cherry for more before giving them to the kids.
Yesterday, after work, my daughter asked me for one..a very specific one she had her eye on near the top of the tree.
I handed it to her without doing my usual check for ants. When I realised this I told her to make sure there were no ants. "Why daddy?" she asked. "Because they are yucky" I responded.
"They aren't yucky Daddy...they are salty." was the response I got.
lol
I wonder how many she has eaten.
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lol!
I take it it's probably healthy... full of vitamines etc...
Ask her to re-try that experimument in 10 years or so... see her reaction then! :D
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Curval
Buy each of your kids a magnifying glass. They'll have hours of fun on sunny days killing those ants!
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Priceless :lol
This remembers me the story of a little girl who was developing hearing problems. The concerned parents bring her to a doc to have a check up.
The doc begins the examination by looking into her ears and immediately notices that both external auditory canals (thanks Google :cool: ) are filled with little pebbles. Surprised, the doc ask to the girl why she has put those tiny gravels into her ears.
"Because they kept falling out of my nose"
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Originally posted by beet1e
Curval
Buy each of your kids a magnifying glass. They'll have hours of fun on sunny days killing those ants!
BAN THOSE EVIL MAGNIFYING GLASSES!!!!!!1111oneone
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i have eaten ants.
Maggots and crickets too.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
i have eaten ants.
Maggots and crickets too.
Survival training? Or just an amusing past time?
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anything is better than lutefisk
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/agree
(http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/insectarium/toile/nouveau/gest/uploaded/15570_.jpg)
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wtf????? is that choklit???
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Originally posted by beet1e
Curval
Buy each of your kids a magnifying glass. They'll have hours of fun on sunny days killing those ants!
Awwwww. I'm calling Scotland Yard on you!!! Just kidding Beet, funny how as kids, we do the same crap. <>
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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Survival training? Or just an amusing past time?
On survival training we ate different, but still gross stuff. We eat things more commonly found in our flora and fauna up here.
No, the crickets and maggots were a dare. Had a group of south american people in our city a few years back and they served traditional food from their home place. The crickets and maggots (may have been some other bugs too) were thrown on a really hot pan and cooked. they got very crunchy and not as gross as one may think...but close enough.
The stuff is supposed to be really healthy and full of good stuff but I doubt I will do it again.
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Originally posted by beet1e
Buy each of your kids a magnifying glass. They'll have hours of fun on sunny days killing those ants!
As an added bonus, you will also increase your chances of collecting on that fire insurance policy by at least 75 to 80%. :)
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lol
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Originally posted by Nilsen
i have eaten ants.
Maggots and crickets too.
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.
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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?
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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.
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Originally posted by Saintaw
wtf????? is that choklit???
yep :)
crispy chocolate
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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.
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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.
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Lobster is good food but imo overrated as most high-end foods like fish eggs from russia.
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Haha!!
Thats great!!
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"They aren't yucky Daddy...they are salty."
Priceless. Out of the mouths of babes...:aok
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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
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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!"
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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.
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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
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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.
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One of the weirdest things Ive eaten and liked was pickled pigs feet/knuckles. Mmm mmm good.
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Ants taste like a very dry peanut butter....
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apaprently you can buy a 7 dollar lobster burger at mcdonalds in nova scotia, that tastes exactly the same as a 20 dollar lobster...