Frog legs rolled in worm flour could be the next culinary delight for European haute cuisine after the European Union gave its blessing for the first time for an insect food.
Dried yellow mealworm can now be sold across the 27-nation bloc after a Monday decision from EU governments and a food safety assessment, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
Used to be, here in the States, that during grasshopper incursions, people were paid to go into the fields and pick grasshoppers and corn worms and such. One of the benefits was, besides a little pay, was the fry-up afterwards of the bugs.
We (rural America) used to do the same damn thing as the Ethiopes. Whites, blacks, hispos, all. Only in the last century or so have we become the food prudes we are now.
use to live near a meal worm farm that were raised for scientific experiments. Ate a whole bunch of them raw, cooked, dipped in chocolate, etc......would want to live on them, but not as bad as one might think.
Love frog legs. Ate some kind of worm in South Africa once. Tasted like salad dressing. Perhaps because it was in a salad. I’m game to try anything once as long as it’s not fake meat. In Iraq in 03, one of my local hires told me Iraq had 27 varieties of dates and then had his family send us different ones from all over the country. Some where really good. One type was only supposed to be eaten when dipped in homemade goats milk sour cream. It was good, too. By the way, I’ve never had the flu or been food poisoned. And I ain’t taking the Covid vaccine. Eod1sg Ret
Probably a little better than civet coffee... or maybe the two would go great together. Nope for me.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to be pretty hungry. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteIt started with viande chevaline (horse meat).
ReplyDelete...and then progressed to triperies, escargot, hummingbirds, sweetbreads, blood sausage, frogs...
DeleteThe French will eat anything, sneer at you, and call it a delicacy.
Horse meat was common around WWI in the US, and was sold during WWII.
DeleteIt's not bad, depending on what the horse has been eating. Somewhere between cow and deer for a free-range hoofer.
Give us another generation and we will be like Ethiopians, squatting and picking the wings off grasshoppers so we have something to eat.
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Used to be, here in the States, that during grasshopper incursions, people were paid to go into the fields and pick grasshoppers and corn worms and such. One of the benefits was, besides a little pay, was the fry-up afterwards of the bugs.
DeleteWe (rural America) used to do the same damn thing as the Ethiopes. Whites, blacks, hispos, all. Only in the last century or so have we become the food prudes we are now.
Don't care for the worm stuff, but frog legs properly breaded and deep fried, with hot sauce and beer? Delicious! Good old Southern cooking.
ReplyDeleteuse to live near a meal worm farm that were raised for scientific experiments. Ate a whole bunch of them raw, cooked, dipped in chocolate, etc......would want to live on them, but not as bad as one might think.
ReplyDeleteLove frog legs. Ate some kind of worm in South Africa once. Tasted like salad dressing. Perhaps because it was in a salad. I’m game to try anything once as long as it’s not fake meat. In Iraq in 03, one of my local hires told me Iraq had 27 varieties of dates and then had his family send us different ones from all over the country. Some where really good. One type was only supposed to be eaten when dipped in homemade goats milk sour cream. It was good, too. By the way, I’ve never had the flu or been food poisoned. And I ain’t taking the Covid vaccine. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteWorm flour? Sounds delish! I gotta get out more. I usually just pull earthworms out of the ground and have a munch.
ReplyDeleteWith all the rules allowing it, it's probably cleaner and healthier than most of the shit sold as food in the grocery store.
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