Waiter, There’s Soup in My Bug

[groovedaddy]

SOMETHING happened when Kisha Moorehead looked into the bowl of live worms.

She was midway through a five-course Mexican feast at the Brooklyn Kitchen in Williamsburg last Saturday night, a meal engineered to introduce New Yorkers to the succulent wonders of edible insects. Throughout the first couple of courses (yucca frites dotted with mealworms, a smoked corn custard sprinkled with crispy moth larvae), Ms. Moorehead’s response had been muted. Earlier that evening, in fact, out on the sidewalk, she and her date, Harold Bradley, had considered fleeing the event altogether, even though they’d spent $85 each.

“We kept asking ourselves: ‘Are you ready? Do you want to turn back?’ ” Mr. Bradley said.

But they stayed, and at some point during dinner a bowl of squirming wax moth larvae was passed around. Ms. Moorehead, 38, who most days can be found driving the morning G train, dived in. “They’re moving,” she said. “Oh, I want to try that. Oh! Oh!”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/dining/22bug.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I know that I have inadvertently ingested insects over the years and I

realize, intellectually, at any rate, that they are a source of protein, but I don't think I could knowingly put an insect in my mouth and do the chew and swallow thing. Just too much of an icky thing.

[formercia]

2. Nothing like taking a bite of Salad

and finding half of a wiggling caterpillar with green guts oozing.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Old Joke: What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?

[formercia]

5. Finding half a Worm.

:rofl:

[groovedaddy]

4. Federal standards allow for a certain amount of bug larvae, rodent feces, and more in commodities

such as flour. So, we're probably eating a lot of stuff that we wouldn't knowingly eat.

[formercia]

6. When I was in the Navy we used to compete

to see who could put together a whole cockroach from the hot mystery mush in the mornings. They would crawl across the overhead and fall in the steam kettle.
One admiral called our ship the "only ship in the Navy with hot and cold running cockroaches."