It is so weird to know that a widely used sweetener is made from coal tar.

[BonzaiDuck]

Well -- caught up with this thread -- gonna go for my walk to reduce the emotional stress of the day's news . . .

 

[William Gaatjes]

We were talking about how chemicals and insects are used to imitate flavors. But also food coloring is often made from insects.

Carminic acid is a deep red color made from the hemolymph of the cochineal insect, that lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

[sdifox]

We were talking about how chemicals and insects are used to imitate flavors. But also food coloring is often made from insects.

Carminic acid is a deep red color made from the hemolymph of the cochineal insect, that lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

It's organic!

 

[William Gaatjes]

It's organic!

Ha !
Yep. And moving life has to be killed for it too. But then again plants moving in the wind also move. And we eat them too. Everything is fine as long as it is not fried crickets or disgusting seaweed dishes. Seaweed probably smells like a sick Vayaya (trichomoniasis).

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ha !
Yep. And moving life has to be killed for it too. But then again plants moving in the wind also move. And we eat them too. Everything is fine as long as it is not fried crickets or disgusting seaweed dishes. Seaweed probably smells like a sick Vayaya (trichomoniasis).

Every 17 years, you can collect cicada flies and sautee them with some garlic and salt. Yummy! I first saw the recipe -- believe it or not -- in the Washington Post "Food" section, during a summer when you could go outdoors and the sound of those bugs was almost deafening.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Every 17 years, you can collect cicada flies and sautee them with some garlic and salt. Yummy! I first saw the recipe -- believe it or not -- in the Washington Post "Food" section, during a summer when you could go outdoors and the sound of those bugs was almost deafening.

Bon appétit , you can have it all.

 

[Chaotic42]

You guys might like this video then:

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Bon appétit , you can have it all.

It's good protein!

There's a place in Africa where the native tribes swing around a fine net in the air to catch gnats. They clean off the net and smash the "catch" into patties, then fry them like hamburgers.

Have you ever had an opportunity to eat rattlesnake? It tastes like chicken . . . It was back in 1987. I was hiking in Virginia's St. Mary Wilderness. I found a timber rattler and pinned him to the ground with a dead branch, hacked off his head with my USMC machete, skinned it and cut it up. I didn't have butter, but I had margarine . . .

Anyway!! All things better than drinking Aspartame! I saw a National Geographic program about these very large tarantula-like spiders that live in South American caves. The locals there kill them and cut them up -- then eat the meat. It's like crab.

 

[William Gaatjes]

You guys might like this video then:

Ai, and i like Cherry flavored cola. Or should i say Benzaldehyde flavored cola ?

 

[William Gaatjes]

It's good protein!

There's a place in Africa where the native tribes swing around a fine net in the air to catch gnats. They clean off the net and smash the "catch" into patties, then fry them like hamburgers.

Have you ever had an opportunity to eat rattlesnake? It tastes like chicken . . . It was back in 1987. I was hiking in Virginia's St. Mary Wilderness. I found a timber rattler and pinned him to the ground with a dead branch, hacked off his head with my USMC machete, skinned it and cut it up. I didn't have butter, but I had margarine . . .

Anyway!! All things better than drinking Aspartame! I saw a National Geographic program about these very large tarantula-like spiders that live in South American caves. The locals there kill them and cut them up -- then eat the meat. It's like crab.

It is just that i am not used to eating that kind of stuff, except for the processed foods that have ingredients made from insects in them.

Crab i don't like. And i heard it often that reptile meat have a taste similar to birds, like for example how chicken meat or ostrich meat taste.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

It is just that i am not used to eating that kind of stuff, except for the processed foods that have ingredients made from insects in them.

Crab i don't like. And i heard it often that reptile meat have a taste similar to birds, like for example how chicken meat or ostrich meat taste.

Exotic food isn't a frequent habit of mine, but I've tried the Cicadas and the snake. Today I think it will be BLT sandwiches -- bacon, lettuce and tomato with some mayonnaise on toast.

I just took my vehicle in for a repair I'd been planning since June. Having sold my truck -- there's no "back-up ride". Plenty of steaks in the freezer, though.

Better get to work on that bacon . . . Then, after that, I'm going to make a batter for fried chicken and prepare some chicken livers in the bacon fat. It's OK! I have a prescription for Lipitor!!

Back to the original topic: I've completely eliminated Aspartame from my diet. I drink carbonated beverages sweetened with Sucralose and Stevia, now. And thanks to our friend Igor_Kavinsky and my primary doctor, my kidneys are good, my blood pressure is good, and my blood sugar . . . is as good as it can be.

I know several people who are allergic to shellfish. Crab -- I can take it or leave it. I favor shrimp over other varieties.