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Bugs

They’re what’s for grub. UN conference recommends famine victims, astronauts eat them. 

There’s a problem with anti-buggist perjudice. I suspect a lot of famine victims already are eating bugs, and won’t be thrilled when the big white WFP Ilyushin starts flying in sacks of grubs. The NASA thing, you know, if they wanted volunteers tomorrow for a one-way trip to Mars or points beyond, I’d seriously consider that. To go forth among the stars, leaving our beloved Earth behind, seeking out brave new worlds. On a diet of cockroaches? Suddenly I’m daunted. 

I know it’s wrong of me, but I live in the First World, and generally prefer to eat mammals. Fifteen years in Asia, I managed to avoid eating any bugs on purpose, not that there was ever any shortage on offer. Heaping rashers of roasted waterbugs, mainly.

Here, an AP scribbler from Minnesota gamely orders the sampler plate, pops his first bug. 

Topics: bugs, food

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:57 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2008

6 Responses to “Bugs”

1. Americaneocon Says:
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

   Tasty…reminds my of Hakuna Matata!

2. ChenZhen Says:
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

   No thanks. That’s just nasty.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

   Consider me entirely biased. Yuk, I’d have to be starving.

4. Fatty Bolger Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am

   I promise to eat those the moment I’m a famine victim or an astronaut, but until then…

5. blogagog Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

   No.

6. Tralfaz Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   What ?? No soy Sauce?

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