Ewww cockroaches

Just saw this in the morning paper and was thinking what an unfortunate way to die

I find stepping on cockroaches with bare feet repulsive enough let alone eating them uke

Has anyone at MG eaten something like cockroaches? Or anything most people would find disgusting.

Here in Australia witchety grubs are an aboriginal favourite and I won't eat them either. Especially when they are still wriggling uke

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When I was stationed in Thailand in '76, I ate several insect varieties as a nod to the local populace - some of the fried beetles and worms were actually not bad, but I stopped short of eating any raw stuff...

 

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Thanks Spock. This morning when I read the article, I thought it was another one for Darwin but it turns out it is the coroner's report from the previous death. DOH!

@Caliban I don't think I could eat beetles or worms even if they were cooked.
Maybe I am not too adventurous ..... or have too much good food to eat and don't need to eat bugs

 

We regularly get the American Cockroach variety sneaking into the house. They are the biggest and nastiest roach in these parts. I too, hate squishing them with my foot, so I have to run and find the Raid can real quick before the little buggers run off and start a family in my house, somewhere!...:mad

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Seen them in the Bangkok markets many times, but eating them? - No thanks! uke:

 

During my military service we worked with the Gurkas and quite often shared their rations among which was curried snake.

 

while an instructor of jungle operations one of the skills needed to survive was living off the land and iguana is mighty tasty if you look at the other end of the spectrum, which is bugs n grubs. But as an instructor the first one you ate, you took the back legs and put one over each ear, tail towards the nose. use you imagination to guess where the first bite was.
:crap :kissmy :yum

 

Maybe a bit like eel uke When I was a little kid my dad and my grandpa used to go fishing for eels in the creek. After cleaning them, they would soak them in cold water with vinegar for a long while then boil them in milk. I still remember the horrible oily smell of them cooking and when you eat them all the bones uke

@Phantom the Australian cockroach looks like the American cockroach and they certainly goosh yellow goo everywhere when stepped on ewwww If you can be bothered reading about the Aussie cockroach :wave

@jimi well at least iguana is a bit bigger than bugs and grubs but I still wouldn't be too keen....... but I guess if you have to and it was well cooked :yum
I have eaten both animals on our coat of arms, kangaroo and emu. I have also had crocodile steak and we used to shoot rabbits and deer in the bush block on my uncles dairy farm. Mmmmm venison steaks and sausages.

 

A little off-topic, but here's my funniest roach story ever:

I was a Sales Manager in the PC dept. at Circuit City about 12 years ago. One day, I suddenly heard Paula, the Customer Service Manager, shrieking at the top of her lungs from the service desk about 30 feet away.

Thinking it might be a medical emergency, I dropped what I was doing and rushed over. Paula was still screaming and couldn't say a word. All she could do was point to a desktop PC that had just been brought in for repair.

I looked closely and noticed a few small roaches crawling out from around the power supply fan. I ran to the janitor's closet, grabbed a few trash bags, triple bagged the PC and sealed it with duct tape. Afterwords (to calm down Paula) I ran across the street to Walmart and bombed the service desk area with a can of roach spray.

Oh...and did I mention that a roach infestation on a PC voids the warranty? :-D

 

YUCK!!!! all that vermin!! ukeYou guys give me the creeps just reading about it.

I used to eat smoked eel in Holland and that tastes a bit like salami. It's considered a delicacy there.

 

Hehehe funny story gman which reminded me ....more off topic but funny...
I was asked to look at a CAD station pc that had suddenly shut down and when rebooted made a squeaking noise for a few minutes then everything permanently stopped. I thought a fan was probably stuffed and then the pc stopped due to overheating....
Wrong rolleyes
I opened the case and found a freshly dead mouse hooked up to the 240V live heatsink inside the power supply. He probably went in coz it was warm and then when the pc was turned back on...... zap

@oma did the smoked eel still have all the little bones in them?

 

Joffa, just the spine. These eels are just about 1 foot in length more or less. They were already very expensive 50 years ago and probably more so now.

 

Gives the PC tech term "bad mouse" a whole new meaning. :-D

 

So the smoked eels weren't like the slimy three foot long ones my grandpa and dad caught:yum

I don't know how the mouse managed to get into the power supply because there aren't any big openings. Maybe he squeezed through the fan while it was stopped:confused
It would have been a very bad mouse had I left it there over the weekend

 

We had the most filthy nasty pc's come in to our shop, a few with roaches, basiculy we bagged em as quick as we could and stuck it out in the parking lot until said person could pick it back up.

 

My wife is a great fan of smoked eel and eats them whenever we go into Holland for shopping and as we only live 10 miles from the border it is quite often.

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Thanks Bill, they do look more appetising than than the ones I had because these look like the bones have been removed but I am still not convinced that they don't have the oily taste. I guess it would taste more smokey than anything else.:yum

@Colemanguy I have seen some pretty horrid pcs but my friend who has a Computer Shop got a full tower in for service ... complete with the optional two foot long Tiger snake. When he took the side off he nearly sh*t his pants .... later when he told me I had a really good laugh LOL

 

Oh Bill - do they ever look good and greasy. :drool Ask your wife to eat some on my behalf, although I think that my tastebuds have changed over the years, especially over the last 7 years.

Makes me think also about salted herring with onions.