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

[yaini0625 at yahoo.com]

Witchitie grubs are grubs found in the ground. They are about 1/2-1 inch long and the diameter of a quarter. It is an Outback/Aboriginal delicacy. They taste like faint almond with a bite of Eucalyptus. Vegimite I couldn't eat until I spent 1/2 day on horseback. Then it smeared on bread, coffee and trail mix tasted like heaven. The meat pies I had weren't what is being described here. Mine had Kangaroo, some kind of tuber, I think a turnip, and onions and spices. 
Ahhhh! Great Memories. 
Aelina

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From: lilinah at earthlink.net
Sender: sca-cooks-bounces+yaini0625=yahoo.com at lists.ansteorra.orgDate: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:42:46 
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT - G'day Lords and Ladies and more on pies

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.
-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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