[Sca-cooks] Bug Bites

[Johnna Holloway]

Because these are Giant ants as in the world's largest ant with nutty  
bacon taste. The New York Times in June 2010 featured an article  
titled "Old Friends, White Water and Roasted Ants in Colombia" by Seth  
Kugel. There's a picture of trail mix captioned as: Santander’s  
traditional roast ants with Jon’s traditional trail mix. The ants are  
crawling around in this trail mix.

HTTP://FRUGALTRAVELER.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM/2010/07/27/OLD-FRIENDS-WHITE-WATER-AND-ROASTED-ANTS-IN-COLOMBIA/

Hormigas Culonas
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/14/ants_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20060814113000

Maybe you could start a business and offer Texas Ants in competition.


Johnnae
who previously mentioned
http://www.edible.com/shop/insectivore/giant%20toasted%20leafcutter%20ants/



On Aug 1, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> So, what makes these "gourmet" edible ants, rather than just normal  
> edible ants?
> Something other than the fact that "gourmet" usually equates to  
> "small quantity and expensive"? Admittedly, each ant is probably  
> pretty small, but that's "small quantity", not "small size". :-)
> Stefan