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I’ve got a hornworm, if you get what I’m saying.
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quote:M. quinquemaculata larvae are large green caterpillars reaching a length of up to 10 cm (3.9 inches) when fully grown. Sounds about right...
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Sep 24, 2020 18:26
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oh the thread continued  Scientastic posted:I’m sure there are plenty of willing posters who would test that recipe if you sent them the hornworms do they not have tomato hornworms in the UK? I thought they were worldwide pests.
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I made the mistake of smashing a hornworm with a brick on my driveway. The carnage spread for several feet in each direction and the stain lasted for months.
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Sep 24, 2020 18:40
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I've eaten some tasty bugs but they were all crunchy. Caterpillars seem repulsive.
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Sep 24, 2020 19:20
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Grand Fromage posted:I've eaten some tasty bugs but they were all crunchy. Caterpillars seem repulsive. Anything that has evolved to turn into goo inside a coffin it made for itself and then rise again from the state of liquification doesnt seem like it'd be good eats
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Sep 25, 2020 00:01
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Eat This Glob posted:Anything that has evolved to turn into goo inside a coffin it made for itself and then rise again from the state of liquification doesnt seem like it'd be good eats Listen bud, we like goo around here.
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Sep 25, 2020 00:23
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Grand Fromage posted:I've eaten some tasty bugs but they were all crunchy. Caterpillars seem repulsive. Chilocuiles (dunno about the white ones) are also sometimes eaten raw, which I've never tried, or dried. One of the ways the dried ones are consumed is ground up with salt and chili powder, which tastes like a smoky seasoned salt.
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Sep 25, 2020 00:24
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Totally Reasonable posted:Listen bud, we like goo around here. Im more of a glob man, tbh e: id definitely give dried caterpillars a try
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Sep 25, 2020 00:33
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glob 'a goo is a famous italian dish, i have heard.
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the default way that caterpillars deter predation is by tasting awful. the ones we eat hosed that up and then peeps selectivdly bred them
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Silkworm pupae are top 5 in most repulsive things I've eaten, I think. And somehow they smell even worse than they taste, and if they're being prepared fresh that poo poo stinks up like a hundred meter radius.
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Sep 25, 2020 00:43
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I loving HATE the tomato hornworms
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Sep 25, 2020 00:50
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That's what good pupae sounds like
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i like the smell of silkworms 
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Grand Fromage posted:Silkworm pupae are top 5 in most repulsive things I've eaten, I think. And somehow they smell even worse than they taste, and if they're being prepared fresh that poo poo stinks up like a hundred meter radius. Sounds like that time I ate surströmming in a park in Edinburgh 100m downwind of me, people were screaming about smelling a dead body
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Sep 25, 2020 08:58
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Scientastic posted:Sounds like that time I ate surströmming in a park in Edinburgh 
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SubG posted:Chilocuiles (dunno about the white ones) are also sometimes eaten raw, which I've never tried, or dried. One of the ways the dried ones are consumed is ground up with salt and chili powder, which tastes like a smoky seasoned salt. I think this is what's called sal de gusano, which is a pretty common ingredient in Baja cooking from what I've seen. I've never used it, but if I'm going to eat worms a ground-up version seems like the easiest way to start. A whole tomato horn worm, even fried up enticingly like Gravity posted, is a big nope from me at this point. Maybe after society collapses and I'm forced to subsist on whatever I can gather in the killing fields of suburban Vegas I'll consider it.
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bartolimu posted:I think this is what's called sal de gusano, which is a pretty common ingredient in Baja cooking from what I've seen. I've never used it, but if I'm going to eat worms a ground-up version seems like the easiest way to start. I'm pretty sure a lot of protein powders use worm to get the protein up so you've probably had it already!
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I usually just take pruning shears and snip em and they usually deflate into a pool of guts and, like, a shockingly large amount of plant pulp. I feel like fried hornworm sticks would be like horror film mozzerella sticks.
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VelociBacon posted:I'm pretty sure a lot of protein powders use worm to get the protein up so you've probably had it already! I've never used a protein powder for anything so uh, probably not. But I'm not opposed to insect protein in general. When I was in Jalisco I had chapulines (grasshoppers) and while the preparation was kinda bad I didn't hate the bugs themselves. Would try again. GrAviTy84 posted:I usually just take pruning shears and snip em and they usually deflate into a pool of guts and, like, a shockingly large amount of plant pulp. I feel like fried hornworm sticks would be like horror film mozzerella sticks. That was my thought to. So big, plump, and juicy, like a hot dog casing full of pus.
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Sep 25, 2020 15:52
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Cicadas were far and away the tastiest bugs I've had.
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GrAviTy84 posted:I usually just take pruning shears and snip em and they usually deflate into a pool of guts and, like, a shockingly large amount of plant pulp. I feel like fried hornworm sticks would be like horror film mozzerella sticks. I go through my tomatoes with chopsticks, pulling off any worms that I find. I just throw them on to the hot Vegas pavement and they mummify in minutes.
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bartolimu posted:I've never used a protein powder for anything so uh, probably not. But I'm not opposed to insect protein in general. When I was in Jalisco I had chapulines (grasshoppers) and while the preparation was kinda bad I didn't hate the bugs themselves. Would try again. I did not need to read that. Mr. Wiggles posted:I go through my tomatoes with chopsticks, pulling off any worms that I find. I just throw them on to the hot Vegas pavement and they mummify in minutes. Same but without the mummification and with more yeeting off the deck.
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bartolimu posted:I've never used a protein powder for anything so uh, probably not. But I'm not opposed to insect protein in general. When I was in Jalisco I had chapulines (grasshoppers) and while the preparation was kinda bad I didn't hate the bugs themselves. Would try again. A hot dog casing full of pus? What are you, my wife?
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GrAviTy84 posted:oh the thread continued I've never seen one. Wiki says America and Australia so you two can  terrifying insect/invertebrate buddies!
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I've been cooking for literally three weeks so I'm still not very good, but today is the first time that I made something loving delicious.  Like, I even gave some to my grandpa and while he was concerned at first, he took a bite, then another bite, then another bite and started grunting affirmatively. Basically what's up is I'm living with my grandpa, and after something like 15 years of only eating frozen meals I finally broke down and asked for a grocery allowance. Sixty dollars a week, so less than we were paying before for far, far more fresh food. It's been an absolute wonderland for me lol, especially when I found out I could make something like 8 pounds of food for less than 15$. I've gotten so much better at chopping peppers now, it used to take me 10-15 minutes and I'd get all these uneven chunks, whereas this time I got it done in about 4 minutes and it was all nicely diced. I'm just so happy lol. It's been a lovely year for me like it has been for everyone so learning how to cook has been a huge huge motivator for me.
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klapman posted:I've been cooking for literally three weeks so I'm still not very good, but today is the first time that I made something loving delicious.  Ah, that’s the good stuff right there. What a delightful post to read. Congratulations and welcome to the wonderful world of cooking! Have you read the cheap cooking thread? Edit: here. Full of invaluable advice and recipes PS isn’t the feeling of knowing you’ve cooked something delicious for yourself and other people incredibly gratifying? It’s even better if it was cheap and nutritious. therattle fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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Oct 1, 2020 08:14
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The sp00n zone has passed from this world, and a new sp00n zone appears . . .
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i like nice words
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You forgot your link
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Oct 1, 2020 08:49
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drrockso20 posted:You forgot your link  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3442278&perpage=40&noseen=1
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klapman posted:I've been cooking for literally three weeks so I'm still not very good, but today is the first time that I made something loving delicious. Congrats. Knowing how to cook is invaluable, and learning how to cook is fun and rewarding. You might try making some casseroles. They're generally easy and you'll get practice prepping ingredients. Bittman's How to Cook Everything, and Ruhlman's Twenty are good books about cooking. Looks like the Twenty ebook is only four bux right now.
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This smoking meat fb group I'm in has been posting something called georgia stew lately. Anyone know anything about it? I guess it's also called Brunswick stew? Recipes online look like pulled pork, chicken things, corn, potato, okra, lima beans, and tomato. Sounds like it's either really good or really bad, no in between.
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Whaddya wanna know? It's this thing. Basically a stew with stuff in it.
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Oct 5, 2020 03:21
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GrAviTy84 posted:Sounds like it's either really good or really bad, no in between. That is correct. It's a standard item at NC bbq places. The ones that use fresh veggies are great, the ones that use canned are poo poo.
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GrAviTy84 posted:This smoking meat fb group I'm in has been posting something called georgia stew lately. Anyone know anything about it? I guess it's also called Brunswick stew? Recipes online look like pulled pork, chicken things, corn, potato, okra, lima beans, and tomato. Sounds like it's either really good or really bad, no in between.
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It's just I've never heard of it but for some reason I've seen like a dozen posts about it recently. Idk. Curious.
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Oct 5, 2020 03:59
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Stringent posted:That is correct. This post awakened a deep memory in me of when Anne Burrell opened a new restaurant next to my apartment that sold an 'insalata chopata' Which was an 11 dollar plate where they bought one of each canned vegetable at the shoprite down the street and mixed them together Also the cheese and crackers plate which again, was literally triscuits and dijon mustard from next door with some random sweaty wax cheese for 9ish bucks That restaurant closed real fuckin fast
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postmodifier posted:This post awakened a deep memory in me of when Anne Burrell opened a new restaurant next to my apartment that sold an 'insalata chopata' That's hilarious. To be fair to the bbq joints with lovely stew, NC isn't a particularly vegetable eating place, so lovely stew didn't always mean lovely restaurant. That said, the places with good stew were always the best.
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postmodifier posted:This post awakened a deep memory in me of when Anne Burrell opened a new restaurant next to my apartment that sold an 'insalata chopata' I remember reading about this place when it closed. For fun, here's a picture of that salad that the restaurant themselves put up on Yelp. Imagine paying 14$ for this: 
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