Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 03:29:11 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:

I haven't checked with my friend Google/et.al. but I seem to recall that
there is a problem that the chitin (sp?) of those insects....the
'shell'...can have some potent allergen reactions for some people.
 
I've heard that this can be a problem with 'cricket flour', I believe.

Probably for some people. Personally I'm a little weird and I eat the
tails on fried shrimp and shrimp cocktails. Maybe I have some sort of
dietary deficiency but I'm fairly sure I could handle cricket flour.

I don't know if it's still around but Reese was a company that sold cans
of weird stuff including fried grasshoppers, whale, and chocolate covered
bees. The grasshoppers weren't bad.

Trivia: Many of the Indian tribes ate grasshoppers. They approached it
with great efficiency and set fire to the fields. The fire got rid of the
legs and wings, producing roasted hoppers.

I don't know if they were as prevalent before wheat farming but the
Carolina hoppers are big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissosteira_carolina

I had to roll the windows up on the pickup while driving past wheat fields
after the harvest because the cab was filling up with the damn things.