I forget the exact number, but I have heard that just about everybody has swallowed about a dozen spiders in their sleep in a life time.
If the makes you squeamish, try duct tape.
If the makes you squeamish, try duct tape.
Would You Eat Bugs?
- Thread starter bill barilko
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I have many fond memories of riding in the back of my Dad's pick-up along with some of my sisters - mind you we stuck pretty close to the farm when we did so and rarely did it on the highways. Of course traffic in and around Regina back then was not what it is today.
No shortage of grasshoppers in SK. Few years ago a radio station had a contest to get free Stones tickets. Whoever gathered the most hoppers won. Some gal won with two garbage bags full. That is a lot of protein.
I still remember some years, when I was a kid, that the grasshoppers were so thick on the ground they were almost like a carpet. I always thought they were quite fascinating little critters.
A friend of mine cooked a grass hopper with a magnifying glass when we were teens. Said it was quite good. I took his word for it at the time.
The droughts in the 80's were when I've seen them in hoards. Those buggers (pun intended) will eat the paint off your house.
ahhh shyte, it won't play, stupid facebook, I don't even have the setting on that limit other people from viewing my stuff. Anyone know how to make it work?
I tried deep fried silkworms and other "bugs" when I was in Shanghai. Some like silkworms were pretty tasty. Others weren't as palatable. One bug I tried tasted OK but it was mostly shell. Silkworms tasted like shrimp and had about the same shell to "meat" ratio.
Grandpa McCusker used to take me for walks through the fields to have a look at the crops when I was a tyke - I can still remember the icky feeling of all those hoppers that flew up in my face. Mind you, it was worth it when he taught me the joys of chewing wheat gum. :smile:
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Durum has a nicer chew to it than red. 
It was times like those mentioned that got me hooked on farming.
Pulling mustard and picking rocks.....not so much but grandma always rewarded us with incredible meals and amazing cakes and cookies baked in an old coal fired oven.
It was times like those mentioned that got me hooked on farming. Pulling mustard and picking rocks.....not so much but grandma always rewarded us with incredible meals and amazing cakes and cookies baked in an old coal fired oven.
First - YUK with a capital Y and secondly - thank you so much for your post! For days and days I have been trying to remember the name Castor Oil! None of us could seem to remember the name. I kept saying - that oil that some women used to drink to try to induce labour. Now I just have to remember why I wanted to recall the name of it! :lol:
Beaver castors (spelling?) in Gin (John de Kuyper or Bols gin) was touted as a cure all up to half a century ago.
BTW you just drank the gin and threw the castors out afterwards:smile:
BTW you just drank the gin and threw the castors out afterwards:smile:
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I can imagine as they are very closely related.
Seems to me that castor oil is a petroleum byproduct. No wonder it induce labour. Maybe we should demand that politicians drink it so something will actually get done in parliament.
Castor oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the castor bean. As a remedy for constipation, some politicians would simply implode!
