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- shoover, on 07/20/2009, -3/+24This is kind of a dumb article - lots of pictures, but no real evidence why you 'should' eat them.
"Due to its poisonous nature and unusual look, the scorpions are often believed to have plenty of healing properties"
Huh? Oh, and they taste like 'nothing'?
It is good to see he at least included sources for the images... - MMusick, on 07/20/2009, -0/+18I get my insect fill on bike rides. Usually they go down so fast I don't get to really savor the flavor.
- JAVandiver, on 07/20/2009, -3/+21Do you eat crustaceans(shrimp, crab, lobster, etc.)? They are just large sea bugs.
- CedEx, on 07/20/2009, -0/+14I remember swallowing or choking on regular flies while I was a kid on a swingset.
Usual scenario went like this... "Hey guys! HEY GUYS! LOOK AT WHAT I CAaaaa..... *hack hack*, I think I ate a bug." - Mummo, on 07/20/2009, -1/+14Deep fry em and I'll try em
- xutopia, on 07/20/2009, -0/+11Wimp.
- NovaPrime9, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9Dunno why you're getting buried. I can't imagine how hungry the first person that ate a lobster was. They're ***** U G L Y.
- LordVance, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9This article was ***** retarded. The writer had no experience eating the insects, every "fact" was in the form of "It's said that..., It's believed that..." - and the idiot even got the pictures of the insects horribly wrong.
- Kuci06, on 07/20/2009, -1/+9Centipede? If I ate an insect, I would try to get it down fast as possible.
But that huge thing would take half an hour to finish with.
So much time to think about how horrible it is - bobadilx, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7The writer of this article is retarded. Ignoring the lack of reasons for really eating them besides what 'people' say they are good for, centipedes and scorpions are NOT INSECTS! Also, as the two commenters on the article mention, the picture under cicadas is actually an Orthopteran of some kind (cricket, grasshopper, locust, etc), not a cicada, while the beetles/bugs section has a picture of cicadas under it. This brings me to the last point, BEETLES/BUGS is hardly a type of insect, in fact that refers to millions and millions of species of insects, so yeah....
- JAVandiver, on 07/20/2009, -1/+8The website is inaccurate the pictures of the cicadas and beetles have been transposed, but meh, that is just being picky. Both are extremely tasty. Cicadas are best right when they molt from their nymph state. It surprises me that both crickets and grasshoppers were left off the list, both are excellent.
- NovaPrime9, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7And they're not poisonous, they're venomous.
- iamnotyou, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6If you eat insects can you still call yourself a vegetarian?
- JAVandiver, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6If you eat canned vegetables you are definitely eating some bug matter(insects & spiders).
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Edms/dalbook.html - DoctorX, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6About five years ago, I attended a lecture on bug-eating at the Museum of Natural History. I was randomly selected from the audience to be on a tasting panel on stage.
I ate butter worms (delicious!), meal worms (texture was like cheese straws) and crickets (horrible!). The main dish was a fried scorpion on a tiny piece of toast. I was asked to describe the flavor of everything I'd tasted.
A week later, I received a late-night email from a coworker. It simply read, "I saw you eat a bug! It was gross!"
I wrote back asking him how the hell he'd known about it. It turns out that I'd been filmed the whole time and the footage had been used in a story about the lecture by "Countdown with Keith Olberman" (this was before he became Mr. Politics).
I'm proud to day say that I managed to gross out hundreds of thousands of people in one go. My work on Earth is done. - Kronos6948, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6Roll out that million and I'll eat just about any bug you cook.
- unixpected, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5LOL i am so scared of insects
- Pahtcub, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5I'll stick to One'A'Day Men's formula.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5Not to mention the fact that centipedes are not even insects.
- nightsweat, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5If you're allergic to Crustaceans, don't eat insects. I'm not sure about Arachnids or Centipedes, but Insects have the same allergy properties as Crustaceans.
- 49CentTacos, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3KILL IT WITH FI-
...oh - Kronos6948, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Should be a caveat:
*These statements are the beliefs of only the people who eat them, and have not been evaluated by the FDA. - inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4Eating insects is strictly for the birds!
- marmotjmarmot, on 07/20/2009, -1/+3Buenos dias.
Howdy. We're taking a herd of cattle up to Montana and lost a cook.
Yes. I go with you. My name is Po Campo.
Wait... Can you cook? Our boys is awful particular.
Try this. I fried them only this morning.
Dang, that's tasty!
Is it some kind of candy?
Grasshopper.
Grasshopper. Our boys ain't gonna take much to eating bugs. - codywhat, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2digg for a post that makes me hungry!
- RichStevenson, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2What's with the sea horse in the scorpion pic?
- DermDoc, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2As I recall, they tasted like nothing too.
- BaphClass, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2What turns me off from eating bugs? It's the eyes and the legs, mostly. I can't even eat lobster, or crab. Sure, shrimp are fine, but only when they've been shelled, and have had their insectoid bits removed.
If you want people to eat bugs, then find a way to make them look more like shrimp. Hell, I'd even take a shot at worms, provided they had the texture of ground beef. - Xzelick, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2These are nothing compared to what Andrew Zimmern eats on Bizarre foods - Travel Channel.
- Darrelc, on 07/20/2009, -1/+3Nice ***** toolbar at the bottom, way to bump my CPU usage up. Transparency too? ***** gimmick.
and "Bugs are believed to be antidiuretic (i.e. limits the formation of urine) that can cure kids of bed-wetting" - here jimmy to stop you pissing the bed from anxiety much a ***** of bugs before you go to sleep! youll be fine! - blankjob, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I ate a cicada once on a bet, got a pizza out of it. Well worth it!
- redprints, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Dude..I would never have sex with an insect.
- catvllvs, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Looked kinda tasty.
- inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+2when I read this I knew you would posit at some point
- bci84, on 07/21/2009, -0/+2Yum!
- JAVandiver, on 07/21/2009, -0/+2@NovaPrime -- Lobster was, up until the first part of the 20th century, considered garbage food. In some states, because they have not changed the laws since then, it is still illegal to serve prisoners lobster more than three time per week.
- EricAnderton, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Good point.
So, do you think steamed scorpions with Old Bay would be worth a shot? - smcnow, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Centipedes and scorpions are now insects?
I think I saw these photos in some guy's travel photos about a year ago. His comments were far more informative that the drivel from this copy artist. Anyone know the original blog? - skipvt, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2This article is wrong, there is no probably about it. I will not eat them in a box, I will not eat them with a fox, I will not eat them in a house, I will not eat them with a mouse, I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
- moliver21, on 07/20/2009, -9/+10Disgusting. Vile and disgusting. Even if I were stranded on a deserted island, and starving to death you wouldn't catch me eating giant bugs. I've been poor and hungry, I've had to eat dog food sandwiches because I had no money, no food, and sick like I can't tell you, and I STILL can't imagine myself ever eating anything on that list.
Oh god, I'm nauseous even thinking about it. - bpm2000, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1ya i see them canned in korean stores all the time. ew
- dodger6, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1When the health benefits all start with "XYZ are said to..." your not making any valid points there. Dug down for being random crap with no backing.
- Virgule, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Everything is in the presentation. Make them not look like actual insects and much more people would be willing to swallow them.
- aronnyc, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1I ate cicadas (or grasshopper or cricket, I don't remember) once as a delicacy. It was actually quite good, although I wouldn't try it again.
- SeekerDarksteel, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Of course. I mean look at them, they're not cute enough to care about eating.
- punkcat, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1thank you. i was thinking i was wrong at first with the cicadas.
- LastDawnofMan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1They did a crappy job of describing why you should be eating them, don't know what cicadas even are, and don't know that half of what they showed weren't insects. So why would you trust anything the dufus who wrote that article said?
- Schweppesale, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1LordVance is right. I think this author is putting way too much stock into eastern medicine which we all know is a joke.
North Vietnamese actually believe that eating a dog's and/or snake's beating heart will increase fertility and bring a man happiness. Unfortunately, these studies are obviously based on nothing but here say and superstitious BS.
Eating insects is not an effective way of treating cancer, this entire article was *****. - skipvt, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1How about if they're all mashed up into a gooey paste and spread on a ritz cracker?
- michaelcasey, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Even the chef in the last silkworm picture is amazed that the guy's eating them.
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