Oh god, I can't stand maggots. I've had to put on gloves a few times due to a trashcan outside being infested with them *shudders*.

There's a store here that sells chocolate covered ants, crickets, and mealworms, very similar to what this website is selling: InsectCandy.com

I actually tried the chocolate covered ants once, and they're not bad. You just have to get over the fact that you're eating an ant.

When I was younger I remember someone got me one of those lollipops with a cricket in the center. The candy lollipop was decent enough, despite kind of looking like a solidified version of Irish Springs body wash. I ended up just swallowing the cricket whole, unless I'm starving I don't see the point of eating bugs.

They're a pretty bountiful food source that mostly goes unconsumed due to stigma. I wouldnt mind it at all if more places started serving them, given they are prepared properly.

Indeed .. We may all have to eat bugs one day as other protein food sources become scarce ;)

But for me there's also the culinary aspect of it. Clearly many if not most are completely edible and there are so many insects, they make up over half of all known organisms. If you can get past the stigma, I figure there could be a lot of interesting flavors to explore.

I've eaten chocolate covered ants too - once. When I was young neighbor offered me them, they were from South America and would give me things I haven't tried before like real coconut. I forget what the ants taste like now but I remember at the time I really didn't mind the fact they were ants but I don't think I could stomach bugs/insects larger than that, I don't think I would ever make it on Fear Factor.

i actually eat ants all the time

whenever some food gets ants, i never bother getting them out of it, i consume the whole thing

Food never gets ants here unless perhaps you're on a picnic in a forest, but I guess you have more invasive (pun) species down there :)

We actually have a species of ant in this country which is small and black and called sugar ant. I think they're called that because they're very fond of sugar, but some say they also taste good and it's the only species I know of that you could expect to find in a home, although that's rare. A guy I lived with some ten years back used to occasionally eat them when he found them outside :p: I think he described them as sweet and a bit spicy, like a little zing which I guess may have been the ants' poison gland.

I never actually tried it yet, but perhaps I should. It's this little fella :

http://www.antsworld.com.ua/images/p...us-niger-3.jpg

For norwegian ants, they're quite small. There are much larger species in the forests, but I've never heard of anyone eating them despite the fact they're quite abundant. If you poke a hive with a stick, they give off this faintly sickly smell of formic acid, so I've never wanted to try.

what I eat are thinner and smaller

they're pretty much tasteless, with a flavour of, I dunno, ash or something

Hmm, so your buddy would eat them alive? I don't know if I could do that if they could sting me. We have mostly black ants and of course, the invasive fire ant pests here in the U.S. South, both of which hurt like hell when stung. We also get carpenter ants which are quite large, but I've never tried eating them.

You don't know how lucky you are, tore, to not have fire ants where you live. You can't even have a picnic or lay in the grass in the state of Florida without being swarmed by the nasty little things.