Oopps, Sorry, this was posted under the wrong thread; but Joe just letting you know I'm thinking of you! Your thoughts, insights, and recipes are always appreciated.
((Barb)), thanks for the good wishes. (But for a minute there I thought you had me confused
with Dianne. smileys/wink.gif
If you've wondering why I haven't been on much, it's because my computer was dying and I was saving up for a new one. I'm all set up now and hope to drop in more often.
All over Asia the locals buy from vendors with little carts that have
divided sections filled with a multitude of different bugs. It is a real treat but expensive to them. For us it's pennies so we often treated a bar tender or worker. They would go to the cart and would get little bags with what ever little critter was their favorite and we would pay. A little niceness goes a long way.
I can't read your posts---skin crawly. we went to a meeting in Maui in an old wooden church and
looked up at the ceiling----gigantic black spiders holding on to the ceiling right above us. gahhhhhh! even creepier the day before Halloween. so many bugs! I set out my suitcases on the back porch at home, overnight in freezing temps, just to be safe.
LOL These aren't crawly for sure. They are very crispy deep fried.
We really had a big laugh one night in Bangkok just before we got back to our hotel. A exceptionally large (they call water bug, we call cockroaches) ran across the sidewalk. There was a British guy walking toward us and he just said...Dinner? We all burst out laughing. Are you officially creeped out now? It is food related....;o)
I was creeped out when engineer-coworker said he "had" to partake in the bug eating because
it would have been rude not to do so as a guest in his host's home. When I foolishly asked what it was like to eat them he described them as crunchy and warm and wiggling because they were still alive -- that pretty much pushed me over the edge, LOL.
For the record, that's a cultural experience I plan to decline when I visit Indonesia, or any other bug-eating countries. smileys/wink.gif