Scene from Thailand food market.

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This is in the city of Phuket, which got its name from the thing people say just before they eat the food.

Research shows that eating crickets regularly can change gut flora favorably and reduce inflammation. Surely, there must be an easier way.

Meanwhile in Cambodia, due to the severe insect shortages, people have been forced to cull the apex predator.

[video=youtube;GZkhpRfqsI0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkhpRfqsI0[/video]

We have vastly bigger spiders where I live, which leads to this true story:

My wife and I got a flat on the hill behind the hospital, with a view of the ocean. That was the official living quarters for married staff, which is part of the deal when you enter into the slavery day and night work as an intern. She was happy with our first little place.

So one day, I get a phone call on the ward, and it's her with an emergency. A Spider Emergency. She trapped it in the kitchen sink, under a big metal bowl. Could I come back home?

Well, of course not. I have actual dying people to handle. Tell the security guard to give a hand.

Unbelievably, he couldn't handle it. Called for backup. I swear. It is true. Heard the intercom.

In the end, the spider collapsed itself like a giant squid, and slithered down the open drainpipe. So when I got back, the guards and my wife were lined up, looking nervously at the doorway to the kitchen. I popped the bowl over to see--- nothing.

So in the end we got a little grille and glued it onto the sinkhole.

If only YouTube had existed then, we could have gotten the recipe.
 
Scene from Thailand food market.


This is in the city of Phuket, which got its name from the thing people say just before they eat the food.

Research shows that eating crickets regularly can change gut flora favorably and reduce inflammation. Surely, there must be an easier way.

Can we taste before buying to judge the freshness of the products ?

:)
 
Like eating prawns / crustaceans. Also arthropods, insects / arachnids are air breathing versions of the same thing ... and make an environmentally efficient way of growing proteins too (high density).
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
We have several species of tarantula here in Arizona. It's their mating season right now I think. You see them on the move more often during monsoon season in late summer than any other time.

Never thought about eating one, admittedly.
 

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Been to both Thailand (many times) and Cambodia but never did the bug thing. Couldn't even bring myself to frogs' legs in Cambodia.

Now I would eat frog. My rule is simple. No spine = No eat.
 
I went to Thailand a few years ago.

Ate some fried crickets, fried tree worms, fried silk worms, and bee larva (fried and live). All of these were quite delicious, though I won't be making a habit of this at home (something my bees are happy about).

I did turn down what they called "jumping salad", which was live shrimp in a salad.
 
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