Time to eat worms

[Sirius]

I am ready! I am ready, I have been adjusting my palate for new protein sources and looking at things just in time. I have no idea what is going on with food anymore.

So for grubs and worms what you need to do is mulch. Just a thin layer of wood chips, not bark if possible and keep things moist. The worms will come. You can introduce patches of green leaves (from fruit trees work best), it will attract beetles and you will have many many grubs. Once things get going you can cover the soil with a thin layer of bark and top it up with fresh greens now and then.

Lizards you can attract with seed bugs, just leave a bunch of grass seeds near your compost pile. A colony of seed bugs will spring up in no time, these will bring the lizards. You need to leave the lizards for a season so they produce many young for light snacks. Nice autumn treats.

[Sirius]

Help me out here, the black bit on the end, that looks like dirt and not edible. How do I get it out?

[UltraBudgie]

you know, in the 1970s, mcdonald's had to deal with an early example of viral rumor mongering, that their hamburgers were made with worm meat.

the head of the company countered that in a press conference by showing that it would cost them more than 3 times as much to make patties with worm meat than the beef they were using.

that was belivable.

[UltraBudgie]

Let us look at scripture.

[1Ti 4:1 KJV] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
[1Ti 4:2 KJV] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
[1Ti 4:3 KJV] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
[1Ti 4:4 KJV] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
[1Ti 4:5 KJV] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1ti/4

Notice anything? The word translated as "meats". It's the genitive plural of βρῶμα (brôma). But what else does that word mean?

βρῶμᾰ • (brômă) n (genitive βρώμᾰτος); third declension
1. a shipworm (Teredo navalis) that bores into wooden piers, ships, etc.
2. that which is eaten, food, meat
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CF...E%BC%CE%B1

Teredo navalis, eh? Tasty-looking bugger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_navalis

Anyone have any recipes? Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.

[UltraBudgie]

Perhaps a nice soup.



https://migrationology.com/eating-shipwo...o-navalis/

[MichSwampbuck]

Help me out here, the black bit on the end, that looks like dirt and not edible. How do I get it out?

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The survival guys pull the head off and eat the rest. Those pinchers hurt. Supposed to taste like almonds. I find them all the time in dead wood I'm splitting for firewood or in the ground when I'm turning the soil. They are fat and juicy looking, I've been tempted on occasion to try one.

[DontTreadOnMe]

Help me out here, the black bit on the end, that looks like dirt and not edible. How do I get it out?

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Nope.
I'd have to be totally not sober to eat that.
Having seen live maggots...well...it took my appetite away totally.

[Sirius]

The survival guys pull the head off and eat the rest. Those pinchers hurt. Supposed to taste like almonds. I find them all the time in dead wood I'm splitting for firewood or in the ground when I'm turning the soil. They are fat and juicy looking, I've been tempted on occasion to try one.

I know right, you can tell the texture is good just by looking at it

[Oldcarpy2]

I ate the grub thing inside a bottle of Mezcal once.

I was totally not sober, tho.

[Oldcarpy2]

Just make sure it's not a Shite Beetle grub....