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TRAINS, SNAILS AND SMARTIES
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TRAINS, SNAILS AND SMARTIES Recently in Britain, a train service was cancelled because the wrong kind of snails was on the line!  I have never eaten snails, frog’s legs, oysters, caviar or lobster. I am quite conservative in what I eat; my mind easily overrides my sense of taste. I’ve eaten meat by mistake in a French restaurant and by recently eating beefburgers bought from Tesco! I’ve eaten goat in a restaurant in Mexico; and I’ve eaten some unknown things packed in dim sums in Hong Kong – I didn’t dare ask what was in them as I didn’t want to offend my hosts by not accepting their hospitality. Have you eaten snails, frog’s legs, oysters, caviar or lobster? What is it about these foods that people rave about? What is the most unusual thing that you’ve eaten? The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation has just published a report, Edible Insects. The report’s authors found that insects form part of the diets of at least 2 billion people in the world, mainly in Africa and Asia. They reported that over 1,900 species of insects are eaten as food, most commonly beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets. The authors recommend that insects should be eaten by far more people around the world because of increasing population levels, pressure on farming land, and the abundance and high nutritional content of many insects. Here are some choice extracts from their report: "insects can be reared on organic side-streams (including human and animal waste)". "Insects are reported to emit fewer greenhouse gases and less ammonia than cattle or pigs, and they require significantly less land and water than cattle rearing." “the composition of unsaturated omega-3 and six fatty acids in mealworms is comparable with that in fish (and higher than in cattle and pigs), and the protein, vitamin and mineral content of mealworms is similar to that in fish and meat.” “Insects can be directly and easily collected from nature or farmed with minimal technical or capital expenditure”. Have you eaten insects? Would you eat insects? Smarties were once dyed red with cochineal, until Nestlé changed the recipe to replace the crushed scale insects with red cabbage! |
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1. All of them. Frogs legs and caviar were okay, snails, quite nice, oysters deelish and lobster out of this world, I've even hand dived, cooked and eaten my own lobster! 2. It's all about flavour and texture for me. 3. Sheeps brain, it was quite nice. 4. A plate of deep fried crickets in Mexico, very tasty, salty and crunchy.
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Oysters, especially smoked! Lobster, yummy! Wife's office has a lobster feed every June.This year it is on June 22nd. I have been the lobster chef for many years and the most I cooked is 187.
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Have eaten all of the above, in my youth while in the Far East and Africa,mainly to say I had tried it, really like lobster but that is a local dish where I live. I think religion would bar a lot of people from eating most of it.
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We have oysters beds around here and the lobster is plentiful. Being Jewish, kosher laws says nono! LOL I am very bad about following rules though. LOL I have not consumed, knowingly any bugs but I am sure I have had plenty. Frogs, nah...just not culinary brave. Lobster is sweet. Oysters, not a huge fan. Too slimy. I love caviar. But only flying fish roe. I love the sweet salty taste and how they pop when you bite down. It's a texture thing. Strange food...of course that is subjective. Snake, cactus, tripe.
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1. All of them. Frogs legs and caviar were okay, snails, quite nice, oysters deelish and lobster out of this world, I've even hand dived, cooked and eaten my own lobster! 2. It's all about flavour and texture for me. 3. Sheeps brain, it was quite nice. 4. A plate of deep fried crickets in Mexico, very tasty, salty and crunchy. 
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Oysters, especially smoked! Lobster, yummy! Wife's office has a lobster feed every June.This year it is on June 22nd. I have been the lobster chef for many years and the most I cooked is 187.
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I think I could eat cooked cactus, provided the spikes are removed!
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Have eaten all of the above, in my youth while in the Far East and Africa,mainly to say I had tried it, really like lobster but that is a local dish where I live. I think religion would bar a lot of people from eating most of it.
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We have oysters beds around here and the lobster is plentiful. Being Jewish, kosher laws says nono! LOL I am very bad about following rules though. LOL I have not consumed, knowingly any bugs but I am sure I have had plenty. Frogs, nah...just not culinary brave. Lobster is sweet. Oysters, not a huge fan. Too slimy. I love caviar. But only flying fish roe. I love the sweet salty taste and how they pop when you bite down. It's a texture thing. Strange food...of course that is subjective. Snake, cactus, tripe.
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Chocolate-covered ants sounds a good way to start eating insects.
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187 oysters! It must have been a big pot!  We use 4 pots that will hold up to 50 in each pot! They are very large pots as we also use them for corn feeds!(at least 6-7 dozen in each pot).
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6/26/2013 8:49 am |
Have you eaten insects? Not intentionally. Would you eat insects? Only if force to do so on Amazing Race.
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Have you eaten insects? Not intentionally. Would you eat insects? Only if force to do so on Amazing Race.
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