It doesn't matter if they give off a sweet lemony aroma, I am thinking I
don't want to eat ants!! The only time I would eat ants is if I was
stranded somewhere and had no food. See, I really don't like insects, they
bother me, not all of them. A lot of ants sickens me, I am terrified of
spiders BIG TIME!! Also, here in Jersey, we have these bugs, they are
called cave crickets I believe. Oh man do they freak me out, they look like
a mix of a big spider and a cricket!! They jump about 3 feet in the air and
are by far one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. I won't go in a room
if I know one is in there, I know they can't hurt me, but it's just a
phobia. Sorry for getting so far off of the topic!
Kev
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Ian A.
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Ants are not full of citric acid. They do produce formic acid which is what
makes the bites of certain species painful. Ants belong to the family
Formicidae; a name obviously derived from their ability to produce the
chemical.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:55 PM
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Well, ants have a high acidity in their body (mostly citric acid), so when
you boil them, all that fluid mixed with the water to give it a tart, lemony
type taste...one of those interesting tidbits I picked up in the past when I
was in survival instructor training (like many others on this list, I wasn't
always a dba). :)
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Wow, that is really gross:)
-----Original Message-----
Stevenson
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Now that's a waste...you're supposed to boil the ants and then roll them up
in chocolate. Then you can add sugar to the water you boiled them in and be
able to serve "lemonade" with the chocolate covered ants (make sure they're
carpenter ants and not fire ants!). :)
Jeffery Stevenson
Chief Databeast Tamer
Medical Present Value, Inc.
Austin, TX
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:11 AM
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OK you chocaholics try this on for size:
Reuters Monday, March 19, 2001
Chocolate-Coated Bugs Are Latest Treat
LONDON (Reuters) - Ants, crickets and scorpions, baked, coated
in chocolate and promoted as a high-protein snack, are proving
popular among peckish Londoners.
Designer Todd Dalton, who trained as a chef in Louisiana and
acquired a taste for cooked insects on his travels in Asia and
central America, says he has sold 5,000 chocolate-coated bugs
since he began marketing them in December.
"They are very high in protein and very low in fat. They have a
higher percentage of protein than any meat or fish that we
commonly eat," he told Reuters.
The creepy-crawly chocs sell for between three and 3.50 pounds
($4.30-$5.00) at upmarket London stores such as Selfridges and
the Conran Shop and will soon be appearingin shops in Munich
and Zurich.
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