MariusLecter posted:

https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2015/05/20/Gin-made-with-ants-Distillery-adds-new-dimension-to-insect-potential

uber_stoat posted:

you gotta dive in there face first before they can escape.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Sir Mix-a-Lot could not be reached for comment.

SLOSifl posted:

My pet iguana don’t want none unless they got buns hun

twoday posted:

Makes sense. Or someone who ate it once without knowing what was in it, and then described it to someone else who cooks in layers.

As someone who reads a ton of cookbooks, one of the best cookbooks I ever came across was one about Indonesian food published by the Dutch Navy, probably first in the 1950's or so. It is about 800 pages long and gives an overview of all the different foods available on the various islands of Indonesia, and hundreds upon hundreds of recipes for things to cook with them.

The result of centuries worth of knowledge gained through colonizing the area, it explains what each ingredient is to someone who is totally unfamiliar with that cuisine, and explains various other cultural aspects and traditions of the various localities as they relate to food. It seems that is was originally written with war in mind, so that if a ship was stuck stationed at one place for a long time and had to rely entirely on local products for food, they would still have something to eat. It tries to provide as much information as possible and assumes you are an ignorant peasant from postwar Europe who has never even heard of rice.

Here is the page for rice, which explains its structure, nutrional value, and how it can be used:



"Rice is an important source of starch that is easy to prepare. The husk is rich in B vitamins, and becomes nutrient-poor when this is removed. The nutrional value of 100g of rice is approximately [redacted] amounts of protein, fat, carbohydrates, and calcium.

Rice can be used as a substitute for potatoes in a main course. It can also be mixed with leftovers of meat, fish, or vegetables by adding a curry sauce or other seasonings that give a spicy flavor to these leftovers. One of the dishes rice features prominently in is the Rijsttafel. Rice can also be used as a binder or as a filler in soup. Rice is also sometimes used in European cuisine, usually in sweet dishes."

If you can read Dutch, here is the 14th edition, from 1999.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

A few species of the little black house ants also contain a lot of butyric acid, a compound that forms in rancid butter.

So there’s that.

uber_stoat posted:

it's also why vomit smells so bad. yum yum. and why cheap American chocolate sucks so bad.

uber_stoat posted:

WITCHCRAFT posted:

Think of those ants as like a meat berry. There's lots of high energy nutrients in that butt. I bet they taste good for human mouth tongue taste sensory receptacle

Synthbuttrange posted:

It’s not easy. Wearing ankle-high rubber boots for protection, people must work fast since smaller soldier ants, tasked to protect the princesses, can inflict painful bites that draw blood.

“It’s like dancing,” Diaz said of the annual ant-catching ritual. “You have to be moving really fast all the time."

Synthbuttrange posted:

Ow, these butts took a bite out of me!

bike tory posted:

Food fad: Al Roker's Mother's sweet potato poon

https://www.today.com/recipes/al-roker-s-mom-s-sweet-potato-poon-recipe-t142809

LifeSunDeath posted:

Potato Poon is great but it's got a real Tang to it.

Randaconda posted:

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

A few species of the little black house ants also contain a lot of butyric acid, a compound that forms in rancid butter.

So there’s that.

Iron Crowned posted:

I just ate one, I think this may be too much Arby's

Picnic Princess posted:

Go to a petstore and smell the live silkworms.

LifeSunDeath posted:

You just ingested 1.5x your daily salt with that thing

Iron Crowned posted:

LifeSunDeath posted:

LifeSunDeath posted:

You just ingested 1.5x your daily salt with that thing

LifeSunDeath posted:

You just ingested 1.5x your daily salt with that thing

LifeSunDeath posted:

You just ingested 1.5x your daily salt with that thing

Tiggum posted:

Why does that supposed "roast beef" look exactly like ham?

rndmnmbr posted:

That's Arby's for you. The cheapest deli "roast beef" money can buy. Mostly beef offcuts ground fine, glued together with transglutaminase and retort-cooked in a mold, artificially flavored and steamed to mediocrity.

rndmnmbr posted:

That's Arby's for you. The cheapest deli "roast beef" money can buy. Mostly beef offcuts ground fine, glued together with transglutaminase and retort-cooked in a mold, artificially flavored and steamed to mediocrity.

Rollersnake posted:

If you're ever in the vicinity of St. Louis, go to a Lion's Choice. It's like Arby's, if Arby's were actually good.

chitoryu12 posted:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/arbys-liquid-meat/

It's just cheap round roast sliced paper thin.

rndmnmbr posted:

I've worked - very briefly - in a factory that made lunchmeat. And yes, before it's injected into casings, racked, and cooked, the meat is very much a thick slimy liquid. Snopes needs to do better research.

rndmnmbr posted:

I've worked - very briefly - in a factory that made lunchmeat. And yes, before it's injected into casings, racked, and cooked, the meat is very much a thick slimy liquid. Snopes needs to do better research.