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Post by ARENA on May 6, 2013 16:59:36 GMT
We are being told that the menus of the future will contain lots of insects and bugs.
They are cheap and plentiful and eaten by many millions of people around the World.
Would you try them?
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Post by scorp on May 6, 2013 17:11:10 GMT
I suppose... after all, we eat their marine cousins happily enough!
Ooh - just had a flashback to childhood postwar holidays, at Holland-on-Sea, when one iof my parents would go and buy a pint of shrimps, to have with the tea brewed on a beach fire of driftwood...
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Post by ARENA on May 6, 2013 20:09:09 GMT
As a Scot , it has always struck me as amusing that the English take the mickey out of the French eating snails (ugh) and tip down whelks (ugh x 2)as if they are going out of fashion!
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Post by scorp on May 7, 2013 6:51:14 GMT
Oh I think most people here can can cope with escargots these days... I think the gigantic African edible ones would make one blink a bit, and call for a carving knife and fork.
"If you don't want the whelks, Don't muck 'em abaht" sang Alan Breeze... I don't think I've ever been enamoured of the whelk (probounced 'whilk' in my family at least, by the way), or, come to that, the winkle.
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Post by 3wells on May 9, 2013 16:05:34 GMT
No thanks!
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Post by ARENA on Jul 4, 2013 9:12:56 GMT
I wish someone would start eating mosquitoes. I was severely munched the other night in bed!
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Post by scorp on Jul 4, 2013 13:40:56 GMT
Try taking a flock of swallows to bed with you...
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Post by ARENA on Jul 4, 2013 14:48:37 GMT
At my old house we had loads of dragon-flies. Beautiful to look at and total carnivores! They love mosquitoes and eat a vast amount.......
Must get some to come to our pond.
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