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My toddler was amazed when I introduced him to edible bugs (grasshoppers in our case, but we have a jar of ants around as well). His eyes lit up, it was like a
by com2kid 3y ago
My toddler was amazed when I introduced him to edible bugs (grasshoppers in our case, but we have a jar of ants around as well).
His eyes lit up, it was like a toddler dream come true! Bugs he could eat!
Related, recently I accidentally ordered some blood soup at a restaurant[1], and when he asked what it was I was about to say "blood, icky" but I remembered to not let my cultural biases predetermine what he ate, so I let him try some instead.
tl;dr Toddlers love eating ants.
[1] The menu listed it as shrimp cake soup, blood was a major ingredient that was not mentioned. Given every soup above it did list blood cubes, I should have asked.
- random_kris 3y agoThe many flavors of people...
- UncleEntity 3y agoAlmost like Adam Ant joined The Cannibals?
- moralestapia 3y agoNo idea why you got downvoted. Unusual, yes, but not a bad thing.
- teekert 3y agoAs a toddler my wife was known for lifting up rocks and just picking and eating all the crawling things. It’s our culture that removes these tendencies :). We still have the occasional good laugh about this story.
- postepowanieadm 3y agoCultures in most parts are rational when it comes not to eating specific things, when it comes to animals/insects it's mostly about parasites.
- master-lincoln 3y agoDoesn't cooking get rid of most parasites?
- sva_ 3y agoThat reminds me of the story of Sam Ballard, who ate a slug due to a dare and fell into a coma, woke up paralyzed, and later died. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eat...
- teekert 3y agoIt is at least noteworthy that this was in down under… :) (Deadly fauna, deadly fauna everywhere)
- mzs 3y agoOne of my earliest memories is of eating a bug.