Has A Bug Ever Crawled Into Your Ear While You Are Sleeping?

@4meAndyou My gosh, you've had hell, haven't you? Glad that spider was dead, yikes. I can relate, unfortunately. I once made a cup of tea in the dark, and then drank it in a lit room, and the last sip contained a small moth. I also saw it too late and it went right down the gullet. Mmmm... moth tea 🤢

@faery We lived on a farm when I was young. We had dairy cows and I was walking from the barn with my aunt and she was talking and a fly flew into her mouth. It startled her so bad she gasped and swallowed it. The next evening we had company over and I told them what happened. She was so embarrassed that she denied it. (And I laughed, I was about 3 years old). We had our barns a good distance from the house and had a large porch that my uncle screened in to keep them out so we could sit there in peace during the summer time. They usually didn’t come to the house much unless a rain was coming towards us.

@cherokeepatti Sounds like you were a precocious little 3 year old. 🤭 Being familiar with living on a farm, I guess you'd have some good ideas for defenses against bugs and critters.

What's that saying? Everyone must eat a pack of dirt before they die? Something like that, anyway. I guess that includes a bug or two as well, ha.

@faery There were no secrets when I was young. The words just flowed out of my mouth. I imagine we all have unknowingly eaten some bugs in our produce, am thinking of broccoli especially.

@cherokeepatti Some cultures cook and eat bugs as a staple. I guess it's not so bad, if they're cooked. Free calories. ;)

@faery The guts are still in them though…yikes. And something in them is not healthy for human’s digestive systems either. I watched a YouTube video yesterday of a man in Uganda and he bought a container of fried grasshoppers to eat. I heard they sell them in Mexico too, and parts of the Middle East.

@cherokeepatti It's pretty gross and probably not great for the tummy, yeah. I'm gonna stick with what my culture eats as long as it's available, I think. Grasshoppers would have to fried pretty hard for me to try them. Kinda like oysters need to be fried hard to make them palatable.

I feel nauseous now 😅

@faery I’d get chickens if I had a place where I could keep them. And feed the grasshoppers to the chickens.

@cherokeepatti Now that's the ticket! Affordable chicken and eggs 😋

@cherokeepatti In line with the gross food discussion, SOME candies are coated with Carmine, which is a red dye derived from Cochineal insects. An average chocolate bar contains EIGHT insect parts...which is considered safe by the FDA.

FIGS are not considered to be a vegetarian food because the fig fruit cannot form until a wasp crawls into in and dies...and unfortunately the fig does not digest the ENTIRE wasp. Dates are formed in the same way, but the DATE is more efficient and absorbs the ENTIRE wasp. (The crunchy bits are actually date seeds).

@4meAndyou Wow. I've eaten far more insects than I thought. I love chocolate and dates. I hope I can still enjoy them now, lol

@faery They are no longer present in the date...the date has eaten ALL of it...so munch away! I eat Larabars every morning for breakfast! Made almost entirely from dates!

@4meAndyou I haven’t seen wasps around our fig bushes ever. Carmine also has been used in Yoplait yogurts that have a pinkish color. They could have used a tiny bit of beet powder, which would be very inexpensive, but chose to use bug dye. And shellac is used to coat jelly beans and other things like medications, it is made from bugs too.

@cherokeepatti YUMMY!!!! 🤣🤣🤣