It all started when I bought this film for my children, it was a good funny film and some friends watched it with us one day. Anyway we got to talking about actually eating worms- could you actually stmoach swallowing an insect?
E120 is a bettle juice and found in a lots of childrens sweets, pink marshmallows for example. There's an amount that's allowed becasue it's not possiable to process food without insects, mold, rodent parts and the more we reduce insecticide the more that will increase. The FDA decide what's okay;
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidancedocuments/sanitation/ucm056174.htm
It turns out you are eating insects, know it or not!
Feel sick?! 😀
Originally posted by yo its meSeems to take "We must eat a peck of dirt before we die" to an all new level.
It all started when I bought this film for my children, it was a good funny film and some friends watched it with us one day. Anyway we got to talking about actually eating worms- could you actually stmoach swallowing an insect?
E120 is a bettle juice and found in a lots of childrens sweets, pink marshmallows for example. There's an amount that's allowed ...[text shortened]... tation/ucm056174.htm
It turns out you are eating insects, know it or not!
Feel sick?! 😀
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Cochineal was around as a food colouring when I was a kid 60 years ago. We knew it was made from squashed cochineal beetles but somehow it didn't worry us. I once ate a witchetty grub (they're fat white sluglike things when they haven't been bushfire-barbecued) and it tasted like chicken. Now I'm old the very thought of eating one is sickening. I guess squeamishness is learned behaviour.
Originally posted by KewpieThe thought wasn't sickening when you were young...?
Cochineal was around as a food colouring when I was a kid 60 years ago. We knew it was made from squashed cochineal beetles but somehow it didn't worry us. I once ate a witchetty grub (they're fat white sluglike things when they haven't been bushfire-barbecued) and it tasted like chicken. Now I'm old the very thought of eating one is sickening. I guess squeamishness is learned behaviour.
Originally posted by avalanchethecatI guess why is the obvious question cat?
I've had both earthworm and woodlouse omelettes. The worm one was a bit meh, they don't have much flavour unless you brown 'em first, and then they're a bit chewy. The woodlouse one was nice - they taste just like shrimps.
Originally posted by divegeesterI used to work with a guy who was very enthusiastic about sourcing free food. He also used to eat roadkills - I tried badger and hedgehog, both of which were surprisingly good. He was uncannily good at finding edible fungi.
I guess why is the obvious question cat?
Originally posted by avalanchethecatWoodlice are a member of the crustaceans, alongside crabs, which is probably where the seafood taste comes from. Interesting stuff. I'm not a mad mushroom picker myself, but I do like to collect a harvest of shaggy ink caps every autumn. They are absolutely delicious sautéed in butter. MWAH!
I used to work with a guy who was very enthusiastic about sourcing free food. He also used to eat roadkills - I tried badger and hedgehog, both of which were surprisingly good. He was uncannily good at finding edible fungi.
(Disclaimer, shaggy ink caps should not be confused with common ink caps. The latter can make you very ill if taken within close proximity of alcohol)
I've eaten opossum and racoon stewed in it's gravy over rice on more than several occasions. (not cooked by me, but I helped prepare it) Done correctly, its really good and has a unique taste. Couple of small local soul food restrurants here in New Orleans serve it regularily. It's not road kill, I kinda draw the line there.
Originally posted by yo its meyou eat shrimp, don't you?
It all started when I bought this film for my children, it was a good funny film and some friends watched it with us one day. Anyway we got to talking about actually eating worms- could you actually stmoach swallowing an insect?
E120 is a bettle juice and found in a lots of childrens sweets, pink marshmallows for example. There's an amount that's allowed ...[text shortened]... tation/ucm056174.htm
It turns out you are eating insects, know it or not!
Feel sick?! 😀
It's different if you elect to eat it and if you know you are to not knowing. But maybe, like you say Kewpie, it's a learnt behaviour becasue the kids were just laughing at the film, it's the grownups who were reaching!
There seams to be things living in everything; there's Flour Mites, the Furniture Mite, Cheese Mite, Booklice, Shiny Spider Beetle, Australian Spider Beetle, Golden Spider Beetle, White Marked Spider Beetle, Biscuit Beetle, Cigarette Beetle, Rice Weevil, Grain Weevil, Grain Borer, Flat Grain Beetle, Merchant Grain Beetle, Saw Toothed Grain Beetle, Broadhorned Flour Beetle, Confused Flour Beetle, Rust Red Flour Beetle, Cowpea Weevil, Four Spotted Bean Weevil, Copra Beetle, Dermestes Beetle, Fur Beetle, Fungus Beetles, Khapra Beetle, Larder Beetle, Leather Beetle, Lesser Grain Borer Beetle, Lesser Mealworm, Maize Weevil Beetle, Rove Beetles and Yellow Mealworm Beetle!
Another thing that creaps me is the idea of parasites- from http://www.scumdoctor.com/disease-prevention/infectious-diseases/parasite/Itchy-Ear-And-Parasites-In-Human.html
"It is estimated that 85 percent of adult Americans have at one type of parasite inside their bodies. However, some medical authorities estimate that this percent can be as high 95 percent."
- Now my ear is itching...