I've sat up late many nights in the mountains of Laos drinking rice wine with the Hmong or the Luo nibbling termites like they were Dorittos <s>

And there were times in drought in villages in Northeast Thailand when dinner was rice and fish paste and locusts.

Hey, I even like snails ( au beurre )

But when you've not got food, you eat what's available.


>Couldn't read the text of the article because it's in Turkish so can't comment on how insulting the suggestion is. However, if you've not got the food eat what's available.
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>A lot of African tribespeople actually relish eating certain insects. e.g. when a termite mound opens and they all fly away to start new colonies, the Africans collect them by their thousands and roast them. 60% fat and 40% protein they are very nuitritious. There are other insects that fly in huge clouds that they collect and eat, and, of course, locusts (eat them before THEY eat your crops).
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>Our revulsion at the idea of eating insects is because we're used to eating game, poultry and red meat. But we also eat amorphous, snot-like creatures in the form of shell-fish (like eating land snails) and shrimps, prawns, etc. (not too dissimilar to locusts)
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>It's all a matter of taste.
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>Besides, look at the crap the Americans shove down their throats! :-)
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>>According to BBC reporter Ania Lichtarowicz:
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>>UN, said that "Africans can eat insect for don't starve."
>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/news/story/2004/11/041109_un_insects.shtml
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>>I shamed my humanity. Damn!..