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Environmentalists Want You to Eat Bugs [i.e. Insects]
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 18, 2008 | Tom Purcell

Posted on 06/18/2008 5:12:36 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet
Now the Klingons. They know how to eat!
21 posted on 06/18/2008 6:32:11 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (")
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In the mid-1950s, there was a fad, for awhile, of serving french-fried grasshoppers and chocolate-covered ants at cocktail parties. A friend of mine served some left over from a party her parents had. Actually, they weren’t bad until you found out what they were. The grasshoppers tasted like french fried onions and the ants tasted like chocolate-covered raisins. It was the yuck factor that made us wince.


22 posted on 06/18/2008 6:48:03 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Capitalism is what happens when governments get out of the way.)
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Environmentalists Want You to Eat Bugs

I used to do this when I was two years old ... usually had some dirt for dessert.

23 posted on 06/18/2008 6:55:51 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Zakeet

Ummm... No thanks. I’m a vegetarian.


24 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:26 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Barak Obama: An American African, Not An African-American. (There is a Difference.))
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To: Zakeet

When you can fillet an ant I am in. Until then I will stick with cows and chickens.


25 posted on 06/18/2008 7:54:09 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Zakeet
Mud bugs are pretty good.

Crawfish etouffé?

Boiled in a spicy liquid.

Suck the head, pinch the tail.

26 posted on 06/18/2008 7:54:59 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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There's nothing wrong with bugs, if that's your thing.

I've eaten a few while in Southeast Asia.
They're not that bad but there are few that are good.

Just because Americans don't typically eat bugs doesn't mean they aren't a good source of food.

27 posted on 06/18/2008 8:00:35 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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"Slimy, yet satisfying."

28 posted on 06/18/2008 8:05:58 AM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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I've eaten escargot once and it was pretty amazing.

In Central America, the guide had us try tiny termites which tasted just like they said he would -- like carrot. They were really pretty good.

29 posted on 06/18/2008 8:17:09 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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Enviro-wackos don’t just want us to eat bugs, they want to change our whole way of life. They would like all of us to live in huge cities inside little boxes. No cars, no motocycles, no lawnmowers (because you’d have no lawn to mow inside your little 12x12 cubicle) or other internal combustion engines. In short they would like to warehouse us all in strictly controlled conditions. Because at heart most of them are fascists.


30 posted on 06/18/2008 11:53:11 AM PDT by driftless2
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