What Bugs have you eaten?

[mattmightsay]

What Bugs have you eaten?

just wondering if anyone on the forum has eaten a bug? what's it nice. ?
lol

enjoy.

[desert wanderer]

hi
my name is mark i have lived at uluru for a year and i then lived in alice springs for a year.in the 2 years of living there i had befriended a lot of aboriginals and was adopted into one of their families ,they taught me to paint ,to make hunting tools and most of all bush tucker,i have eaten honey ants and they do taste as the name states very sweet and strong tasting honey, ihave also eaten witchetty grubs and they taste exactly like egg trust me they do..i have also eaten bush coconut inside of that is a grub that you eat before the coconut and that just taste watery and a undescribable low sweetness,other than that just roo tail and a various amounts of vegetaion bush tucker which some tastes ok and others not so ok. i never got around to eating goanna but i will as soon as i relocate back their to live,and then i can say what its like ,i have been told by my indiginous friends that its a meaty taste thats al li can say about that. [/b]

[mattmightsay]

hey mate, thank you for your interesting experiances, i wouldn't mind doing that with the aboriginals, they know pritty much every thing about food tucker. cheers.

[desert wanderer]

yep its the best experience ever. they have so much knowledge and i feel so lucky and/or privlaged that they had shared their culture with me..

[Thomas B]

I've had a grass tree grub once, looks like a witchetty grub tastes like a cashew. I found it underneath the plant after I broke off the old spike as a walking stick, so I think, but I'm not sure, that they come from inside the old spikes. Also, small tasty witchetty grub like things were under all the Bulbine semibarbarata on top of Mt Exmouth in the Warrumbungles. I didn't dig them up, some hikers had knocked them over and the roots were infested. Does anyone else know about these. I thought they might eat the bulbs as they grow. A potential bushfood pest?

[bushgal]

I have eaten termites, they don't taste like anything prob because they are so small.

[olden]

Well I accidently chewed on a black click beetle one night, during my first mouthful of forest picked mushrooms.
Not a very pleasent experience at all.
But the surprising thing was that it turned the whole side of my mouth numb, so if ever I get a bad toothache, I will be searching out click beetles, they do a better job than cloves.

[wallum]

Olden, what is a click beetle?

I have eaten termites (taste similar to how they smell), black ants (tasted spicy), witchetty grubs (cooked, taste like fat), and when I was in Thailand, I ate (fried) cricket, grasshopper, meal worms etc, but they all tasted like the oil they were cooked in...yuk. I think they would have been nice cooked fresh in a stirfry. I know you can eat grasshoppers, but you need to pull off the legs.
Also, crustaceans are very closely related, so it may help to think of grasshoppers like prawns, and in teppanyaki they cook the prawn heads for you..crunchy (like grasshopper) & yum.
Does anyone know what insects are actually poisonous?