no, neither raz or i are tripping. there is a book entitled "HELP! a bear is eating me!" by mykle hansen. IT IS FUNNY AS ALL HELL! :rofl: it is the story, of a man who is fixing a flat tire and, gets trapped under his car. it is told in first person as, this guy is getting eaten over several days by the bear. as for me. i really do like eating mealworms. i have been eating all kinds of bugs for years. a good introductory book on entomophagy (the eating of bugs) is... "the eat-a-bug cookbook: 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipeds, and their kin." by, david george gordon. BUGS ARE DELICIOUS! :drool5:
try this one for a meal firefly... coackroach a' la king. :drool5: YUMMY! HOLY SHIT! WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T EAT THE COACKROACHS CRAWLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR... FUCK NO! i order them from 'carolina biological supply company.' their weblink is below. those cockroachs are safe to eat. they are born and raised, in a clean and sterile environment, for several generations. www.carolina.com i have eaten cockroachs for almost 10 years now and, no, i never got sick from eating them. the first time i eat them, i thought, i was going to puke my guts out. i even got the dry heaves, yet, i kept them down. once you get over the cultural programming of eating cockroachs, you will be mad that our culture deprives us of such a delicious food source! :drool5:
I don't think I could eat them, either, but because I actually like them too much. I did a research project with them last year, and I ordered 'Periplaneta americana' from Carolina. My experiment was to see if I stressed them out by drumming on the side of the cage, would they still avoid light? I think they did, but I can't remember the results because I lost all of the paperwork. Anyway, by the end of the experiment, I quite liked the little buggers, and asked if I could take them home (total weirdo, here- also had rats and mice, lol). The professor said no, and told me I had to euthanize them by drowning them one by one in a vat of alcohol. There were 20 of them. It was the worst day of my life. I cried the whole time. And that was the day I decided I would never again do animal research! Seriously, though, the only thing I really worry about with bugs is that I'm going to bite in and the guts are going to squirt. I could probably eat anything but cockroaches (and centipedes... *SHUDDER*) if the guts didn't squirt. Are they anything like crustaceans in that when they are raw, they are gooey inside, but when they are cooked it becomes firm meat inside? Or am I just kidding myself?