Want something different to eat?

[uk elephant]

One of my biggest disappointments in myself has been that I didn't eat fried caterpillars when I had the chance. I was in Mbare Zimbabwe in 1995. It was a fascinating experience, young children kept running up to me and rubbing my skin, but when I reached out for them, they'd run away. (I'm white as white, with a tendency to flush red at any provocation).
I watched some women make bags out of milk cartons (their version of sandwich bags), and they offered me what they were snacking on like french fries - fried caterpillars. I turned them down (hopefully politely) and have always regretted it.

I did try them, when I was in Botswana. The kitchen staff used to cook them up in a bit pot with tomatoy sauce for their own dinner and brought us out a taste one day. The caterpillars themselves didn't taste of much, but felt a bit weird to eat with the prickly crunchy yet soft (because they were cooked) exterior. I never quite got around to tasting them as a dried snack. There were people selling them from huge sacks at the market and I should have had a try. Next time...

[Zen]

I think I need some buttered toast and tea right about now
Or maybe saltines and gingerale

[PamNY]

I think I need some buttered toast and tea right about now

In Tibet, they put the butter in the tea.

Pam

[OakLeaf]

That would be rancid yak butter I believe.

[PamNY]

That would be rancid yak butter I believe.

So I've heard. But I didn't want to mention it until Zen has a chance to finish her ginger ale.

Pam

[tctrek]

I have one word... YUCK!

[Fujichants]

My Chinese grandma eats turtle soup...there's a whole turtle in there, shell and all. Yuck.

Anybody remember that dinner scene from Indiana Jones (was it even Indiana Jones?), where they cut open the snake and all the baby snakes slither out? I was a kid when I saw that, and to this day it still creeps me out.

[cylegoddess]

I had a good and interesting snack yesterday.
Fried, compresses and healvily salted, garlicky and chilied seaweed. Ate the whole bag. About 300 cal for the whole bag. Yum yum , pigs bum!

[OakLeaf]

"Fried and chilled"? Okay, you got me. That's gross.

[shootingstar]

I just discovered the Chinese herbal soup recipe my mother occasionally made and fed some of us. It was when we had mouth cankers..well, won't get into the Chinese folk medicine terms on this.

http://www.homemade-chinese-soups.co...cken-soup.html
Chinese wolfberries = gonji berries that is the hot chic thing these days. Not sure if other people even realize it has been used in herbal soups for centuries.

I actually appreciated having the soup as a kid. Only a small bowl was necessary to do its thing.