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Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: WhiteRice on Tue, 28 December 2010, 23:49:01

I made chili and it must've flown in at some point.

While I was enjoying my meal there was a weird crunch followed by a terrible taste. Then I pulled out the squished carapace from my mouth.

I calmly put it on my plate, got up, and threw the rest in the garbage.

One of these guys, I believe they are stink bugs. He tasted terrible.

(http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/ImagesFactsheets/Stinkbug(web).JPG)

T_T

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Minskleip on Wed, 29 December 2010, 00:19:02

Ew I got a green bug in my throat once, deeper than anything has gone before or after. It found a new frontier. There ain't no romulans there and there'll never be either haha

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Sam on Wed, 29 December 2010, 00:22:06

I've eaten quite a few various critters.  Many people in Northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, etc. are quite fond of them.  You often see street vendors selling them cooked up piping hot.  Yummy!!!

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Minskleip on Wed, 29 December 2010, 00:24:49

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051109205940/fallout/images/3/36/Iguanaonastick1.gif)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 29 December 2010, 00:50:37

(http://ghastlydoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/eating_bug.jpg)
om nom nom.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: db_Iodine on Wed, 29 December 2010, 04:07:05

Bugs are full of nutrients. No harm in eating a few.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: sixty on Wed, 29 December 2010, 05:14:51

...said the baby-eating-zombie-nazi

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: PAINKILLER on Wed, 29 December 2010, 05:41:43

...said the Asian-liking keyboard-sick ****

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: sixty on Wed, 29 December 2010, 05:44:31

Quote from: PAINKILLER;270227

...said the Asian-liking keyboard-sick ****

wat

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: PAINKILLER on Wed, 29 December 2010, 05:49:54

keyboardporn.com (http://keyboardporn.com/)?

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: sixty on Wed, 29 December 2010, 05:55:44

Quote from: PAINKILLER;270233

keyboardporn.com (http://keyboardporn.com/)?

oh, that. For a moment I felt insulted here. I was merely referring to db_Iodine's avatar showing a nazi zombie eating a baby. Lack of sleep is turning me paranoid, I suppose. :crazy:

To move on with the topic, here are some nice recipes (http://healthrecipes.com/bugs_yum.htm).

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 29 December 2010, 09:32:03

My brother almost swallowed a bee once... Which would have been bad, cause he is alergic to bees.  I myself have probobly inhaled a few gnats in my lifetime... And some statistics show that the average person eats like 4 spiders a year in their sleep... Not sure how accurate that is, but lets hope it is one of the 45% of all statistics that are made up...

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 29 December 2010, 09:40:21

Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement;270271

My brother almost swallowed a bee once... Which would have been bad, cause he is alergic to bees.  I myself have probobly inhaled a few gnats in my lifetime... And some statistics show that the average person eats like 4 spiders a year in their sleep... Not sure how accurate that is, but lets hope it is one of the 45% of all statistics that are made up...

My old intellistation actually sucks up bugs.
So if there are any spiders wanting to crawl into my mouth during sleep, my intellistation will suck them up before that happens. IBM has solutions.

I had a cat once that ate a bee... it was a fat cat that would eat anything.

There's a lot of bugs in certain cereals, [those] particular cereals I no longer eat. I'm always looking at my food... that's why I can't eat certain things.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 29 December 2010, 10:07:37

Quote from: WhiteRice

Show Image

(http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/ImagesFactsheets/Stinkbug(web).JPG)

I ****ing hate these things. I heard they came here from somewhere in Asia and multiplied like crazy. I kill them every time I see them.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Pylon on Wed, 29 December 2010, 10:23:13

Quote from: EverythingIBM;270276

My old intellistation actually sucks up bugs.
So if there are any spiders wanting to crawl into my mouth during sleep, my intellistation will suck them up before that happens. IBM has solutions.

Have you ever taken one of these after it's been on your lamp for a while?
(http://www.greentechpeople.com/images/cfl.jpg)

Every time I do that, there's usually a good number of dead bugs lying on there. Unlike incandescents, they actually provide a landing surface, and thus bugs get trapped and die. Same with overhead lamps that use glass covers.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Parak on Wed, 29 December 2010, 10:24:43

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcel_****e_why_not_eat_insects.html

Awesome talk :D

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: 7bit_vote on Wed, 29 December 2010, 11:13:19

I had a wasp once upon a time on my plate. It came with fried onions on top of a steak. In a french restaurant I had snails on my table and some days ago a piece of a goose!

Ugly, eh?

I know bugs in person only from computer programs and from behind some restaurants ...

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: 7bit on Wed, 29 December 2010, 11:15:27

I had a wasp once upon a time on my plate. It came with fried onions on top of a steak. In a French restaurant I had snails on my table and some days ago a piece of a goose!

Ugly, eh?

I know bugs in person only from computer programs and from behind some restaurants ...

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: kriminal on Wed, 29 December 2010, 11:31:57

*vomit* that bug smells like ass ... and chemicals.. >_>

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: SirClickAlot on Wed, 29 December 2010, 11:44:38

That reminds me of a gnat flying up my nose during a bike ride once a loooong time ago. It settled itself deep inside my left nostril... The stench! Terrible! Blowing my nose didn't help at all, I kept smelling that gnat for hours and hours....

This does officially count as a digested gnat since I never recovered it... ;-)

Regards...

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Voixdelion on Wed, 29 December 2010, 13:06:02

Quote from: Parak;270292

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcel_****e_why_not_eat_insects.html

Awesome talk :D

Food for thought indeed. ;)

However, the one thing he doesn't address which is, I think, more problematic than overcoming mindset as far as eating insects goes, is the fact that societal change, at least at the administrative level (before it gets to the point of torches and pitchforks in the streets), is not motivated by good sense or even to the benefit or well being of people in general.  It is motivated to ensure the comfort of the wealthy and influential and therefore the food industries, and actually any number of related corporations, care more about profit than sustainability for the entire population.  To have a paradigm shift in what we are accustomed to consuming also means a major reorganization of what many are accustomed to profiting from, which then involves opening a whole new can of worms... (no pun intended)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: db_Iodine on Wed, 29 December 2010, 13:23:23

Quote from: ripster;270347

Where's MW?  Windows is always full of bugs.

(http://www.jumotoracingteam.fi/files/jumotoracing.ehdolla.fi/sivusto/two-thumbs-up.jpg)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: Brodie337 on Thu, 30 December 2010, 14:53:49

"I swallowed a bug!"
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxma8ahc3D1qafrr6o1_500.jpg)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: thebilgerat on Thu, 06 January 2011, 00:20:55

Quote from: Minskleip;270158

Ew I got a green bug in my throat once, deeper than anything has gone before or after. It found a new frontier. There ain't no romulans there and there'll never be either haha

Quote from: Minskleip;270162

Show Image

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051109205940/fallout/images/3/36/Iguanaonastick1.gif)

so..much...win!

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: mr_a500 on Wed, 19 January 2011, 16:24:13

Quote from: WhiteRice;270144

I made chili and it must've flown in at some point.

While I was enjoying my meal there was a weird crunch followed by a terrible taste. Then I pulled out the squished carapace from my mouth.

I calmly put it on my plate, got up, and threw the rest in the garbage.

One of these guys, I believe they are stink bugs. He tasted terrible.

Show Image

(http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/ImagesFactsheets/Stinkbug(web).JPG)

T_T

When I read this thread, I laughed so hard that I choked on my tea.

I've inhaled and eaten many bugs (unintentionally, of course).

I used to go jogging in the woods every day. One day there were huge clouds of gnats and mosquitoes everywhere (must have been mating season or something). I ate at least 17 bugs that day. (I counted - and stopped to choke each time)

I held my breath as I ran to escape the forest, but there's only so long you can keep that up before you die from lack of oxygen.

Quote from: keyboardlover;270286

I ****ing hate these things. I heard they came here from somewhere in Asia and multiplied like crazy. I kill them every time I see them.

No, they're not from Asia. They're found natively around the world. You kill them? They're completely harmless, innocent bugs.

If you want to hate something, hate this rotten bastard:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/European_wasp_white_bg.jpg/250px-European_wasp_white_bg.jpg)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: piotrek on Wed, 19 January 2011, 17:21:02

hahahahahah i can barely even smell those things without choking, how did you survive? T_t

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 19 January 2011, 17:34:36

I kill all bugs except for spiders. I respect them for being bug-killers as well.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: woody on Wed, 19 January 2011, 17:46:51

Quote from: keyboardlover;281407

I kill all bugs except for spiders. I respect them for being bug-killers as well.

Bug nazi.

Do you kill more bugs than what you make in your work? That'd be shameful.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 19 January 2011, 17:47:46

Quote from: woody;281417

Bug nazi.

Do you kill more bugs than what you make in your work? That'd be shameful.

No, good point. I definitely create more than I destroy! :D

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: polygon on Thu, 20 January 2011, 01:34:47

Quote from: db_Iodine;270204

Bugs are full of nutrients. No harm in eating a few.

mmmmm... tasty indeed.


I remember taking a bite out of an apple as a kid and it tasting weird, looking at the apple and there was half a warm wiggling around and the other part of worm on my mouth. To this day I'm creeped out by insects and paranoid with my food.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: bugfix on Sat, 22 January 2011, 16:48:11

I fix bugs, not eat them.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: 002 on Sat, 22 January 2011, 16:52:13

Contributing my bug story.
I was attempting to start a syphon to empty a pool and copped a mouthful of ants that were starting a nest in the end of the hose.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 22 January 2011, 17:05:34

Quote from: keyboardlover;281407

I kill all bugs except for spiders. I respect them for being bug-killers as well.

Spiders are weird, I think they're the only ones that use hydraulics to move their legs.

I like ants the best, they're really interesting and live at least 3 years. They're also highly intelligent, cooperative, curious, and humorous to observe.
Sometimes I feed them different foods to test their reaction. I've always been fascinated with their mandibles: although when you get older, you can't see things as close up anymore.

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: WhiteRice on Sun, 23 January 2011, 23:02:11

These things kill bugs too, would you let it live?

(http://oldcoyote.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/home-centipede.jpg)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 24 January 2011, 02:29:15

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 24 January 2011, 02:32:49

Quote from: WhiteRice;283714

These things kill bugs too, would you let it live?

Show Image

(http://oldcoyote.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/home-centipede.jpg)

I saw one of these in my kitchen once.  I was freaked out by it.  It looked poisonous and deadly.

  My mom came in and killed it.  She's really tough, she was raised on a farm. lol

 I read up on them on wikipedia.  They're a kind of centipede I guess. I read that yeah it is an insect predator and we should have let it live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata)

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-centipedes.htm (http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-centipedes.htm)

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Post by: Lethal Squirrel on Thu, 03 February 2011, 19:14:32

I ate an earwig once, It was in one of those silly straws and i sucked it right up. I never used that straw again

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: keyboardlover on Thu, 03 February 2011, 21:59:41

Quote from: WhiteRice;283714

These things kill bugs too, would you let it live?

Yes. I've seen one of them in my room, and did not kill it. When I first saw it I was just kind of stunned, like in awe of it. Freaky but sooo cool looking. Like spiders.

I like spiders =)

Title: I ate a bug today.
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 04 February 2011, 00:52:22

Quote from: WhiteRice;283714

These things kill bugs too, would you let it live?

Show Image

(http://oldcoyote.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/home-centipede.jpg)

It would be a pain to control all of those legs...

I'm assuming it has a dedicated ganglion area for each one?