Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! Each day in April (except Sundays) I’ll be posting about unusual and exotic foods.
We all like snacks, right? If you head over to Thailand, you’ll find one of the country’s most popular snack foods – jing leed. Or…crickets. Fry them briefly in a wok, add some Golden Mountain sauce (it comes in a bottle, and it’s a little like Maggi seasoning), toss in some Thai pepper powder, and voila! Jing leed!
Now we here in the US tend not to snack on insects, but the Asians do. They know they’re cheap, full of protein, fiber, minerals. And crunchy! We like crunchy. Just swap out your Cheetos for crickets.
So, tell me – would you eat jing leed?
This “treat” was on an episode of Joan of Arcadia……….passing for now.
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I have eaten grilled grasshoppers my sister brought back from Mexico. There were tiny and you could hardly see what you were eating. But these bugs look VERY bugsy, I would have to overcome an aversion. Once while living in NYC, I raised my glass of rosé to my lips only to spot a cockroach in it. I never again took food or drink to my bedroom while living there.
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Ugh, cockroaches! No bugs for me, Barbara!
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Maybe, if they were dipped in LOTS of chocolate.
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When I think of eating insects, I think of pesticides. No, thank you. Might not be the case but it makes my stomach turn.
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No, thank you. I’d have to be starving before I would try it.
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Eat my conscience?! No way! (Jiminey Cricket) 😉
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Eat my conscience?! (Jiminey Cricket😂) No way!
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Ha! Happy Easter!
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I might try them, but I’d have to keep my eyes shut.
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I’m just looking at the photo I took of the grasshoppers I ate in Japan. They still had feelers on their heads! Maybe I was delirious. Do grasshoppers count?
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Nah. It looks like ‘poop’. And I think something is crawling on me.
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As long as they are cooked, and not alive!
J is for Jewelry
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I am not adventurous at all! I’m the kid that wouldn’t eat pizza until my later teens! I’ll be surprised if I find something I’ll try!
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