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Title: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 02, 2014, 02:30:14 PM
http://theweek.com/article/index/257208/the-benefits-of-eating-bugs (http://theweek.com/article/index/257208/the-benefits-of-eating-bugs)

 ::speechless::   ::puke::
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Pandora on March 02, 2014, 02:33:26 PM
Ah fer cryin' out loud!  Can the current-fad-crowd get any more ridiculous?!  Are they going to want "farm-raised", organic bugs now?
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Alphabet Soup on March 02, 2014, 03:53:34 PM
I've got a whole herd of free-range aphids that I'd be willing to let go.....cheap!
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: John Florida on March 02, 2014, 07:53:49 PM
  I'll stick to beef.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: AlanS on March 03, 2014, 05:56:14 AM
When I had my motorcycle, I ate more than my share of bugs. I didn't find ANY of them tasty.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 03, 2014, 07:18:52 AM
You are correct.  Plus...June Bugs really hurt!
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: AlanS on March 03, 2014, 08:40:24 AM
You are correct.  Plus...June Bugs really hurt!

Like getting hit with a rock at 70 mph.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Weisshaupt on March 03, 2014, 09:11:06 AM
Eating Bugs is Awesome!
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 03, 2014, 11:09:37 AM
You are correct.  Plus...June Bugs really hurt!

Like getting hit with a rock at 70 mph.

I would have to say an angry hornet in my earhole ranks up there too.

Libiots can eat all those they want too!
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 03, 2014, 11:10:14 AM
Eating Bugs is Awesome!

Think they'll buy it?  Libiots are dumb as rocks...

 ::hysterical::
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Pandora on March 03, 2014, 12:36:40 PM
When I had my motorcycle, I ate more than my share of bugs. I didn't find ANY of them tasty.

Serenity River swallowed a bug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4bcoKJTz8w#ws)
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 04, 2014, 06:31:35 AM
Free protein.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: benb61 on March 13, 2014, 05:26:48 PM
Reminds me of my USAF Survival training.  First day out the instructor kicks over a huge stump, searches around the loose dirt for a second and comes up with 2 huge grubs (1-2 inches long and about 1/5 inch around)  pops 1 in his mouth and bites down, bug juice squirting from his lips and he says "Mmmm, these babies will keep you alive for weeks, anyone want the other one?".  2 guys (Zoomie fighter jocks) puked their breakfast up immediately.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on March 14, 2014, 06:45:49 AM
And you know where the term snake-eater came from too, right?
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Glock32 on September 02, 2014, 04:42:28 PM
Reminds me of my USAF Survival training.  First day out the instructor kicks over a huge stump, searches around the loose dirt for a second and comes up with 2 huge grubs (1-2 inches long and about 1/5 inch around)  pops 1 in his mouth and bites down, bug juice squirting from his lips and he says "Mmmm, these babies will keep you alive for weeks, anyone want the other one?".  2 guys (Zoomie fighter jocks) puked their breakfast up immediately.


Just happened to see this thread.  Did you have to partake of this "other, other, other white meat" during your training?  I've seen wilderness survival videos that show how to strip an edible layer from the trunk of a pine tree.  I'm thinking I would eat every pine tree before I got desperate enough for bugs.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: AmericanPatriot on September 02, 2014, 05:59:35 PM
I bet there's no bugs in North Korea.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: benb61 on September 02, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Reminds me of my USAF Survival training.  First day out the instructor kicks over a huge stump, searches around the loose dirt for a second and comes up with 2 huge grubs (1-2 inches long and about 1/5 inch around)  pops 1 in his mouth and bites down, bug juice squirting from his lips and he says "Mmmm, these babies will keep you alive for weeks, anyone want the other one?".  2 guys (Zoomie fighter jocks) puked their breakfast up immediately.


Just happened to see this thread.  Did you have to partake of this "other, other, other white meat" during your training?  I've seen wilderness survival videos that show how to strip an edible layer from the trunk of a pine tree.  I'm thinking I would eat every pine tree before I got desperate enough for bugs.

We were not forced to eat bugs but it was expected.  I did not.  On the second day of field training a couple of us cornered a deer and were about to have venison for dinner when the instructor ordered us to set it free.  We only complied when he told us that that evening after we completed our orienteering exercise the destination had 20 lbs of steak that would be that nights dinner and the next days training on how to make jerky.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on September 03, 2014, 06:54:38 AM
I bet there's no bugs in North Korea.

Don't see many cats or dogs either for some reason...

PS-I too would pass on bugs as long as possible!
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: AmericanPatriot on September 03, 2014, 07:23:56 AM
There is a lady in the prepper community named Marjory Wildcraft.
She eats bugs.
Her idea is to learn about them before she has to in order to survive in the event of a total collapse
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on September 03, 2014, 07:27:56 AM
She is probably right...but...BUGS!   ::puke::
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Glock32 on September 03, 2014, 12:15:25 PM
I imagine real hunger can motivate you to do all sorts of things you never thought you could do.  But bugs, yech.  I'd have to figure out a way of taking them in capsules or something.  Remember that scene from the Temple of Doom where they're eating all manner of nasty stuff?  Still makes my skin crawl.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Pandora on September 03, 2014, 05:58:28 PM
I heard snake isn't much different than eel, and eel, done right, is good.

Tsk, spelling fixed.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Alphabet Soup on September 03, 2014, 06:35:35 PM
I went through one of those phases where I tried all sorts of "exotic" stuff. Rattlesnake, Aardvark,
Tiger, and all kinda bugs. I was amused at the "It tastes like chicken" reactions. It seemed like everything did, especially the snakes.

I do remember grasshoppers - they tasted like the skin from KFC chicken (original style!).
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Glock32 on September 03, 2014, 07:19:11 PM
Quote
I do remember grasshoppers - they tasted like the skin from KFC chicken (original style!).

Well.....it is a secret recipe.  Maybe you just figured it out?
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: IronDioPriest on September 03, 2014, 07:36:38 PM
Two of my kids tried "Duck Beak" while we were in China. It was literally a cross-section of a duck's top and bottom bill, cut from front to back, with the cheek meat attached. We saw fetal pigs hanging in grocer windows.

People in this world really will eat anything edible. I naturally recoil in disgust at some of the things people eat - such as Obama, and his doggie-platter. But I think in the end, food habits is one of those things that really is just cultural, and our disgust at what others eat is just because the drastic gulf between cultures is so obvious. The fact that we are personally invested in the most intimate way (it goes into our body) in what we like to eat makes the differences more profound than other cultural differences.
Title: Re: Can't wait to see if this hits the libiot trend-setters and infomercial crowd
Post by: Libertas on September 04, 2014, 06:32:51 AM
I might have to go grasshopper before I do other things...like -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food))

(I can still hear the street vendors after all these years!)   ::exitstageleft::

It made Cracked's #1...

(http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/cracked/wong/duckfetus2.jpg)

http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_the-6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_the-6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html)

See, I guess it can be worse...