EWW I ATE A BUG!!

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When you need to do inventory on your store you call us to count your inventory.

One time we counted a little high end candy store in a shopping mall. The store had a display of some kind of import candy - lolly pop like chunks of brightly colored transparent fruit flavored candy on a stick that contained a single bug. maybe a centipede maybe a fly. Had to try one.

Picked the one with the biggest and gnarliest looking bug imprisoned inside the pink candy prison. Took it home. Took a couple days to lick the candy to it's core. Then while watching TV and thinking about something else while licking away I tasted and felt something akin a tiny crumb of chicken slip over my tongue and down my throat. That was it. The anticlimactic end to my quest for exotic culinary experience. Just tastes like chicken. A near microscopic piece of chicken -buried in a block of candy. Oh well.

This thread made my day XD

Bug-ger!

Yep. Went down my gullet too fast for me to ...savior it! And it wasnt much to savoir anyway.

I'm sure we've all eaten a bug at some point in our lives. While I don't believe when people say that we eat an average of 5 spiders a night, I think that we all probably have swallowed a spider in our sleep at least once in our lives. And I have a phobia of spiders, so imagining one in my mouth is just revolting!

Thats one my favorite dumb urban myths. That we all swallow X number of spiders and bugs a night.

If that were true then we all would be getting half of our minimum daily requirement of protein just from sleeping, and half of the global livestock industry would not exist, and your grocery bill would be cut by a third

My mom once was awakened from a nap by a spider crawling into her ear. I expect it would be a rare occurrence (as in, maybe a couple times in a lifetime) since spiders have no more reason to climb on us when we’re asleep than any other time and do not typically nest in human beds or anything, but I can see it happening on occasion. And probably most people have at least sampled some sort of arthropod as small children even if they don’t remember it.

I swallowed a fly once. But the worst part is it was connected to a porcupine at the time.

I drank bug juice as a kid, does that count?

That is probably one of those things that varies a lot by location. Newer houses here in the US tend to be much more protected from bugs than a hut in a 3rd world country in the middle of a jungle would be. Plus the US has lots of various products that prevent & kill bugs.

I dont buy this. If there were a significant difference in oral bug invasions of humans living in different house types then folks would welcome bedbugs because if bedbugs were both smart enough to know what part of your anatomy to suck blood from, but were also so dumb that they would crawl farther into your mouth than your teeth and lips- inviting you to eat them- then- there would be a net increase in human nutrition from being attacked by bed bugs and lice ( you would get more protein from swallowing them then you would loose from them sucking your blood). And (a) bedbugs would soon become extinct in the wild (b)but they wouldnt become totally extinct because humans would domesticate and raise them for human food ( what better food source could you wish for than an animal that gleefully and willingly enters your mouth to be eaten). It would be like getting venison from deer who voluntarily commit suicide at your doorstep. Kill AND butcher themselves for your convenience!