Bugs Are Considered a Delicacy in Mexico!!!

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MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Like many people in his town in the southern Mexico highlands, Gerardo Carrillo looks forward to harvest time in August. That's when he can pick greenish caterpillars off the trees and boil them with a little lime.

``They're good,'' says the 53-year-old gardener. ``They taste a little like grasshoppers.''

As Mexico's centuries-old tradition of eating bugs becomes more lucrative _ maguey worms and ant eggs are showing up as exotic fare at expensive restaurants _ researchers are trying to convince poor villages to cash in on these pests as a means of income.

With a protein content as much as twice that of beef, bugs could also become a welcome diet supplement among the estimated 20 million extremely poor Mexicans who live on incomes of $1 per day or less.

In many towns, especially in southern Mexico, bugs are a regular part of the diet. In Carrillo's home of Zapotitlan de Salinas, 130 miles southeast of Mexico City, residents fry the green caterpillars called ``cuchama.'' They sell some, though they're available only a couple of months a year and don't provide much income.

While the spicy, leggy bodies of locusts; the crusty, french-fried caterpillars; or bursting, buttery ant eggs may be an acquired taste, insect cuisine is winning converts in a variety of ways.

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this is so funny!!!

and weird...

ENJOY!!!




[edit on 16-6-2005 by they see ALL]

Food is where you find it!

I eat Ocean-going arthropods all the time.
Bring on the drawn butter!

Here in the midwest, when the cicadas (17 year bug) came they had cicada pizza's

I guess you guys haven't read....

Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects

or

Creepy Crawly Cuisine, by Dr Julieta Ramos-Elorduy

Other folk around the world think it's weird that we Westerners eat chickens....

To each their own.