Burning watermelons?

 

Wonder just what was inside dem melons?

 

Wonder just what was inside dem melons?

Alien pods?

 

Smoked cheese, smoked salmon, smoked meatloaf; why not smoked watermelon?

 

 

https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-says-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-103530974.html

 

NOW you tell me (the day before)! Not enough time to pack!

 

How much packing have you to do?

 

 

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2980303/shocking-moment-rowing-couple-plunge-25ft-balcony/

They landed on their heads so nothing vital was broken.

 

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit...rs-arent-buttery-enough-class-action-lawsuit/

The bakery’s representations are misleading, the claim states, because even though the product contains butter it also contains butter substitutes – vegetable oils – indicated on the ingredient list.
Floyd says consumers prefer butter to chemically produced vegetable oils for reasons of taste, including health and avoidance of highly processed artificial substitutes.
She says vegetable oils, such as soybean, canola and sunflower oil, are also highly susceptible to oxidation. “The result is a flavor described as ‘beany,’ ‘powdery’ or ‘fishy,’” she adds.
The class action alleges that the vegetable oils detract from the crackers’ taste and push the butter taste to the background.
“Defendant did not have to name the Product ‘Golden Butter’ crackers, but chose to, since this is more enticing to consumers,” the claim alleges.

 

 

https://www.kptv.com/general/fda-sa...8-53af-9cf5-21947e04e392.html?block_id=994652

FDA says to avoid eating cicadas 'if you're allergic to seafood'

 

https://www.kptv.com/general/fda-sa...8-53af-9cf5-21947e04e392.html?block_id=994652

FDA says to avoid eating cicadas 'if you're allergic to seafood'

Interesting food choice but ok, every 17 years or so, maybe I can freeze them?

Also would be great in a taco. lol what you think @cmartinez?

kv

 

Interesting food choice but ok, every 17 years or so, maybe I can freeze them?

Also would be great in a taco. lol what you think @cmartinez?

kv

Thanks... but I think I'll pass... I've eaten tiny grasshoppers and ant eggs in the past, though... they're not half bad, but they're always prepared in a suspiciously spicy way...

 

 

Cicadas should be captured immediately after crawling out of the ground when they are soft. After a short time their exoskeleton hardens up and they get crunchy.

Larvae!
Nondu, Nong Khai, Thailand. February, 2003
Other than one little trip to the Nong Khai for the National Cultural Festival, I've spent the most of the last three weeks around the house. A few days ago, a type of insect larvae, cicada I think, that the locals like to eat was discovered in a Eucalyptus grove only a couple kilometers from the house. These little bugs live in holes in the ground about 10 to 20 cm deep around Eucalyptus trees.

Apparently the larvae forage on the surface then retreat to the holes, because the holes, which are sometimes about 1 cm in diameter are clear all the way down to the bug, as if they are used constantly. When its time, the bugs crawl en mass up the Eucalyptus trunks and sprout wings and fly off, probably to make more little bugs. I've seen them in the process of sprouting wings, but never before as just immature larvae. A day or two after the discovery we went up to the hills to dig up some bugs (You may recall that I am vegetarian but I am the only vegetarian in Nondu as far as I know) and was we drove into the Eucalyptus grove what I saw reminded me a little of a scene in a movie depicting 49'ers during the California Gold Rush. People were all over the gently sloping hillside with small shovels and plastic buckets, digging through the sandy soil that covered the shaded floor of the grove.

I watched for a few minutes then picked up one of the small shovels. Should be an easy thing: find a hole, then dig down until you see the bug, then pick up the bug and carry it to a bucket. Well, I was pretty good at finding the holes, but not much good at finding the bugs, though it seemed pretty obvious to me that they were supposed to be at the bottom of the holes. After a lot of digging and only a few bugs, I realized I wasn't' cut out for that kind of work. Luckily for me, I brought along a clipboard and calculator so I could work on my current electronics project while the others worked up a lather gathering a couple hundred grams of little bugs.

I would like to say that the bug digging adventure ended happily for all involved, and it did, except for the bugs, who became a feature of many family's dinners that night.



Many of the people of Isan (North-Eastern Thailand) are subsistence farmers and they must take advantage of the sources of protein that nature provides. Among those sources I've seen taken in Nondu that seem the most interesting, given my California upbringing, are frogs, rats, insect larvae, snails, flying ants, beetles and, predominantly fish. Don't turn up your nose -you can think of analogous foods in Western diets if you try.

 

Thanks... but I think I'll pass... I've eaten tiny grasshoppers and ant eggs in the past, though... they're not half bad, but they're always prepared in a suspiciously spicy way...

When in grade school, there was a kid in class that would pick his nose and eat the boogers.

 

When in grade school, there was a kid in class that would pick his nose and eat the boogers.

Apparently that is good for kids as it helps develop the immune system.