[Sca-cooks] OT - G'day Lords and Ladies and more on pies

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

At 1:18 PM -0800 1/26/11, V O wrote:
>   Ok, I know what vegimite and fosters are, but witchitie grubs?
>  What the heck are those?
>
>   Mirianna

Thorvald wrote:
>Moth larvae.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchetty_grub

The description makes them sound pretty tasty! I suspect i would be 
more willing to eat them lightly cooked, though, than if they were 
still wiggling, when i would probably be a bit hesitant...

I suspect they wouldn't seem so yucky in a vast vast desert where 
they are one of the very few decent sources of tasty protein.

Earthworms don't have much taste. But ants can be tasty... crunchy 
and tangy, but not so terribly full of nourishment for a large human 
as those huge larvae.
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