Reader , let me expect you an honest interrogation : When ’s the last metre you ate a bug , knowingly or otherwise ?
A colleague today share a deeply unsettling figure on Slack of a insect stowaway tunnel deeply in the substance of a James Leonard Farmer ’s market tomato — a would - be collation ( testify above ) had it not been overtake by his better half . This set off a conversation among my coworkers about bug - feeding , the future of food , and , regrettably , summon a memory of one of the high-risk experiences I ’ve ever had with food .
Before I share that horrifying experience with you , permit me set out with this : Bug - eating in exercise is , of row , nothing to scoff at . Bugs can be nutrient - rich , an environmentally friendlyalternative to meat , and they are likely thefuture of solid food . bug can and utterly should be explore as nutrient — but not like this .
A cute lil snack.Photo: Gizmodo
Back in college , a quick and cheap thing I often made to surge me over was a bowl of bonce with shredded cheese on top — kind of an super basic mac and cheese , sans the powder . I would often sum up a little salt and pepper for flavor and , well , that ’s it . On one such occasion that I made this “ dish , ” I boil the piss , run out the bean ( credibly with a fork if I ’m being reliable ) , topped it all off with cheese , common salt , and peppercorn , and took a seat on the couch to check some television .
It was about halfway through my stadium of basic ass mac - and - cheeseflower that I noticed that the sinister dots sprinkle in with the melted cheese were larger than pepper . And it was as I forked through my penne that I realized what I ’d been eat : ant . roil ant . They had evidently been in the loge , and in mindlessly shuffling through the motion after a long day , I had not acknowledge that they were in my food before ingesting literally half of the bowl . It was , and stay , among the most revolting experience I ’ve ever had .
So I ask again : When , or why , did you last eat up bugs ? Was it on use ? A traumatizing accident ? apportion with us your experiences or disburden yourself , as I just have , of your repugnance stories .
Before we dive in , however , let me divvy up with you this bug - adjacent anecdote deal by my co-worker Jennings Brown : “ I ca n’t think of a time I accidentally ate a bunch of bugs , but once I took a big swig of a beer at a saloon in Texas before realizing that it was in reality my friend ’s tobacco spit can . Kinda like bug juice . ”
Kinda !
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