Why not? Most other countries do...

[KagayakiWashi]

John the Baptist ate locusts.....

[Tsukuyomi]

I remember hearing about chocolate covered crickets on Saved By The Bell and thought they were chocolate molded into a shape of crickets @__@; I heard otherwise >_>

My parents have eaten bugs.. I've never touched them o.o; These aren't the kind you find on the ground though. These are the kind that other people find and stick them in packages and sell at the Asian stores ~(O__O)~

[KhakiBlueSocks]

I'll eat 'em if I can eat 'em southern style--

Deep fried with a salad and a side of fries.

[Tsukuyomi]

Lol, I should have known they would mention Thailand I posted before I read the article Ah well, Laos and Thailand aren't too far off from one another and basically eat the same foods ^^ I forgot what show it was, but it was on the Cooking Channel. A guy who goes around the world and eats strange and weird foods ^^ When my mom saw the part where he goes to Thailand and tries the different bugs from one of those side vender shops (there's alot of those). She was all like,"That's a.. so and so bug. Those are really good." I was like,"Ummm.... I guess o.o?"

[eternalprincess]

Man you've got that right. Especially rocks. I tried to eat some of those and they were terrible! I'm going to sue the people that make that so-called "rock candy" for misleading me!

*laughs* Nice. XDD

[Tsukuyomi]

Awww, I missed Savannah's "Colon of dOOOOOOOOm" XDDD

I can imagine though.. so much lulz XDDD

Rushia: I LOVE CHICKEN FEET Tis very yummy depending how you make it ^^

[termyt]

FALSE!

*obligatory snopes link*

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

Relevant part: "This 'statistic' was not only made up out of whole cloth, it was invented as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the internet."

People will believe ridiculous things, for sure, but that's not terribly ridiculous.

Now a tennis ball opening a door lock or cellphones popping popcorn? Now we have something.

[Tsukuyomi]

Well, people are saying how good deep fried this and that is.. so why not deep fried buggies XDD

[TallHobbit86]

I personally haven't ruled out the possibility of eating bugs sometime. You never know...

[Tsukuyomi]

I remember seeing a girl season this big bug with powered pepper ^^ She made it look really good ^^;

I'm not sure if I'm brave enough though

[TallHobbit86]

Yeah, I bet with seasoning or something the bugs would taste better. I bet that it would be a lot easier to eat them if everyone else was eating them too.

[Tsukuyomi]

Probably ^^; Maybe.. who knows if I would if even that xD;

Maybe, if they were dipped into A LOT A LOT A LOT of chocolate ^______^

I guess it just it's such a hard concept for us to grasp since we never been faced by eating insects. Like those in third world countries such as Laos and Thailand. It's so weird listening to my parents say how good red ants are O_O;

[TallHobbit86]

[quote="Tsukuyomi (post: 1234960)"]Probably ^^]
Were the red ants still alive when they ate them? o.o

[Tsukuyomi]

Hmmm, I have no clue o.o I would like to think not, but who knows for sure o.o

[TallHobbit86]

Hmmm, I have no clue o.o I would like to think not, but who knows for sure o.o

I'd imagine they wouldn't be too bad if they were dead, but what if they were alive and bit your tongue or something while you were trying to eat them? O.O

[king atlantis]

[color="Red"]ive heard that everyone eats at least 8 spiders in their life time...like, they go in your mouth when your asleep and stuff \._./

anyway, if the thing was cooked BEYOND RECOGNITION and wasnt slimy/tasted good...id eat it.[/color]

[king atlantis]

[color="Red"]for the record, one c-mas i got candy-covered bugs, and couldnt eat them....they just looked like catipilars and such stuck in carmel...

my uncle did, though, and said they tasted like, well, carmel....

but i dont eat things when i can tell what they are...if you saw a hamburger and it looked like, well, idk, a cows head- would you eat it?1[/color]

[Nate]

[color="Red"]ive heard that everyone eats at least 8 spiders in their life time...like, they go in your mouth when your asleep and stuff \._./[/color]

Didn't I already post the snopes link proving that false earlier?

[Fish and Chips]

Nate, stop expecting people to read the rest of the thread. You know they're not going to.

Back on subject, eating bugs doesn't appeal to me at all, though if thoroughly cooked, I'm open to being convinced otherwise.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Anyone remember that "news" show on Nick with Linda Ellerbee? Man, that was way back in the day. Anyway, they did a little thing on a theater in NYC back in the 90s offering baked crickets alongside their popcorn.