Eating Maggots

[Ogri the trog]

Maggots do wriggle more when warmed up, we used to put them in our mouths to warm them too.....Still couldn't catch any bloody fish though.....

Thank God I'm not the only one to have done this in the past. I was starting to think that I was strange :welcome:

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[RobertRogers]

Thank you all, very interesting information.

 

[underground]

I recently read 'Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All', an anthology of mr Whittingstalls' newspaper articles over the years. He mentions a meeting with an entrepreneur in the south of England with dead serious plans to cultivate maggots as a form of cheap edible protein for the food processing industry. Taking the view that once separated from the rotten meat the maggots will become 'clean', he is said to have gone on top demonstrate his faith in the venture by whizzing a jug of maggots up in a blender and frying them up like an omelette, which he proceeded to eat.

It makes logical sense I suppose, and if true would possibly prove valuable in a survival situation, but to me that speaks volumes about the awful commercialisation of the 'food' 'we' are now sold by the profiteers and the gulf that has appeared between good, honest enjoyable food and what marketing would have us believe.

 

[Galemys]

Last week, a colleague of mine turned up with little snack´s for me (´especially for you Tom`). She had visited an ethnological museum in Leiden (Holland) that had an exhibition on food in different cultures around the world. They were selling insect snacks in little packages so I got:
mealworms with mexican spices
crickets (salt and vinegar)
grashoppers (salt and lime)
All three species were very dry and brittle and tasted just like eh well...mexican spices, salt and vinegar and salt and lime... There was no real insecty taste of it´s own, just very dry and crunchy bits (I removed the legs antennae and wings of the crickets and grashoppers). It was a good experience though because lots of my other coworkers got upset just by seeing me (and three others) eating these creatures. It is just a mindset I think.

I wished she had taken the lolly with a scorpion inside as well...

All three snack´s had the following web/adress printed on the package:
www.hotlix.com, where they have still more tastes to discover.

(no affiliations etc.)

 

[JonathanD]

Bear Grylls didn't actually eat maggots. If you look carefully at the footage, they are mealworms. Con-artist!!!!!!

 

[robtheblacksmith]

As I recall, they can also be roasted, if you have the means. The problem is that the carbs and sugars as well as the fats are gone after that. Protein remaining, I think I will dig around and fry some lovely earthworms instead. They taste a good bit like bacon to me. *S*

Rob the Blacksmith

 

[RobertRogers]

Yeah, Bear does alot of fake stuff. I had to laugh when he attempted to ride a supposedly wild horse! Just one preposterous example of many for that TV show.

 

[RobertRogers]

I took another look at that dead moose - nothing left but a few bones - ribs, half a skull, and a shoulder blade.

Nature recycled it very quickly into a million flies => into a thousand birds and bats => into some coyotes and foxes => ....

Someday the same will happen to me. Hummm.

 

[GenghisChris]

IF(and thats a big if) I hadn't eaten for a week then sure I'd give them a go, but I'd have to be close to starvation and would have exhausted all other routes to food before hand.

 

[Greg]

I wonder if they puff up like rice crispies when they are heated up and go SNAP! CRACKLE! AND POP!!