More grasshoppers than you can deep fry and eat (2 images)

[stuny]

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In one restaurant in San Miguel de Allende most of the main courses were accompanied by some sort of cooked insect, which when you consider the crowded planet, makes a lot of sense as a huge source of protein, but I ordered one of the less challenging dishes. Here are two very large snacks still on the hoof, so to speak in El Charo del Ingenio - The nature reserve in the hills just east of town, and bordered by new adobe McMansions.

 

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[fotografr]

When I was a teenager, I once ate fried grasshoppers on a dare. They actually weren't bad and had kind of a nutty flavor.

 

Extraordinary macro shots.

[Karl G]

Lovely macro and I've eaten insects in survival training many times now. Like Brent says, they really are not bad fried. Grubs are loaded with fat, and quite good, surprisingly.

[pauledell]

Stuart,

 

A great picture of your dinner. Were they french fried or sauteed in butter with a breaded coating?

 

Paul

[platypus]

Great shots and a delightful delicacy no doubt...though maybe an acquired taste.

[stuny]

Jack, Steve, Brent, karl, Paul & Dee -

 

Thank you. As a child I tried fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants. In Autralia's Daintree I tried green ants, raw - they taste like citrus. Most places we go we have the local spcialty since that's usually the best. However, in Tnazania I turned down a Maasi beverage of zebu cattle milk and blood, and in the Australias Outback I turned down roasted wiggedy (sp?) grubs.

[leicanut2]

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Wonderful what camera and lens?

 

Jan

[stuny]

Jan -

 

Thank you. V Lux 4, a gift from Barbara last December. Since getting it I've not used any of my other cameras except for my underwater camera last September diving in Indonesia.

[jcraf]

Great shots with the VLux4.....but I still don't want to eat them!

[fotografr]

Jack, Steve, Brent, karl, Paul & Dee -

 

Thank you. As a child I tried fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants. In Autralia's Daintree I tried green ants, raw - they taste like citrus. Most places we go we have the local spcialty since that's usually the best. However, in Tnazania I turned down a Maasi beverage of zebu cattle milk and blood, and in the Australias Outback I turned down roasted wiggedy (sp?) grubs.

 

Should you ever find yourself in Mongolia, do not under any circumstances short of death threat partake of the fermented yak milk.

[MarkP]

and in the Australias Outback I turned down roasted wiggedy (sp?) grubs.

 

Spelled 'witchetty grub', and no I've not been game to try them either.

Even Bear Grilys struggled , although they're probably better when cooked:

Bear Grylls Eats HUGE Witchetty Grub!!!! (Caution Very Disturbing) - YouTube

 

 

Great photos btw!

[stuny]

John, Mark, Guenther and Brent -

 

Thank you.

[Brenton C]

My first reaction, in humour, was to say that those pix are TOO sharp, the colours TOO vivid.

 

Then I read all the reactions and personal reflections that were prompted.

 

Very evocative pictures. Well done!

[stuny]

Fred & Brenton -

 

Thank you.