Little bugs that I have eaten

[LSFL]

Crickets, ants, termite larvae, and grasshoppers. They ranged between a crispy texture (the ants) to a pleasant nuttiness (the grasshoppers) What bugs have you eaten?

[True Dough]

1. Little bugs?

Sorry, I've moved on to much larger prey.

[Doreen]

2. I never have but I am one of those people who would try.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Chapulines and escamoles

Also gusanos de maguey, but those were roasted and ground, and mixed into the guacamole.

[samnsara]

4. on purpose?????

[Kali]

19. !

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I am sure I've inadvertently eaten some, because the FDA does allow

some small amount of insect parts to be present in peanut butter and other food. But I've never knowingly or intentionally eaten any. My cats like June bugs, spiders and centipedes, though.

[Cairycat]

6. Dang near ate a fly this morning

I don't like any light but the glow of the computer monitor in the morning, but that attracts bugs. Spit out coffee all over the keyboard. Yuck!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...

but that would not be me.

[lunasun]

8. Cooked Ants Crickets Grasshoppers. I have a friend who ate a live 17 yr cicada. no thanks

[Throck]

9. Try bicycle riding with your mouth open.

I got sand flies and yellow jackets.

[jberryhill]

14. Yep

From cycling alone, I've eaten swarms of whatever is in season.

[Throck]

18. THWACK!

The sound of a bird bouncing off your helmet.

I thought this stuff only happened to motorcycle drivers.

[IcyPeas]

10. how about some brownies made with cricket flour?

I will probably not be buying this but for those of you who are curious: Supposedly a good source of protein.

https://www.cricketflours.com/https://www.cricketflours.com/product/cricket-flour-brownie/

[Kali]

20. no, THIS is a good source of protein -

[NotASurfer]

11. Chapul bar

Made with cricket flour - ground-up little bugs, but with a little spice tasted like a Mexican brownie. Have a couple at my desk. Snackable enough and nobody mooches them when I'm not there.

[3catwoman3]

12. "Nobody mooches them."

I'll bet not -

[herding cats]

13. I swallowed a gnat in my wine last week.

Does that count?

It tasted like fermented grapes, but with a nasty ick factor when it was swallowed.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. A lot of people say they like the taste of cicadas. But I think they really eat them for revenge.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/cicada-cooking-pizza-tacos-jello-article-1.1314334


I hope this doesn't trigger another "Mexican caviar" thread.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. I mostly drink my insects, all kinds of them. But, baked goods do come in a close second.

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[Kali]

21. dang, coffee starts out pretty bad

before the damn little moths sneak into the pot overnight!

[red dog 1]

17. Back in the '70s, I was taking care of an apartment belonging to some friends who were out of town

and they had gotten as a present an assortment of chocolate candy with various insects in it.
They were little square chocolates, each wrapped individually, and each one had either ants, grasshoppers, crickets, bees or other insects as well.
A friend of mine was there with me
(He was the one who had given the chocolate insects as a gag gift)
I got the munchies and looked for something sweet to eat in the kitchen cupboard, found the assorted chocolate squares, (but didn't read the labels), and I ate several of them.
Soon, my friend came into the kitchen, and, upon seeing the empty wrappers of the 4 or 5 chocolate squares I had eaten, he started laughing uproariously.
"What are you laughing at"? I asked.
He said, "do you know what you just ate?
"Chocolate candy," I answered.
"Those are the insect candies I bought for Jim & Mary Ellen," he said.
"What?" I replied.
Then, he looked at the candy wrappers I had thrown away, and said:
"It looks like you preferred ants, because you ate 3 ant chocolates, 1 bee chocolate & 1 with crickets"
I immediately started boiling water to make tea, to "wash down" the insects, which made my friend laugh even louder.
(The only thing I remember about how they tasted was that they had a nut-like taste)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. "Flies! Flies!"