A simple guide to eating insects

I just go up the food chain one step...eat the trout that hopefully takes the fly, that I have presented to it.

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Originally Posted by scarry

My parents used to cook up fried rice with pipi.

Not bad either,once the sand was out of them.The trick was to leave them in a bucket full of sea water overnight with a piece of mesh on a few rocks,about 1 inch off the bottom of the bucket.They would spit the sand out overnight and it would fall through the mesh.

In the 70's they were very common,and a good feast when camping for weeks at places like Fraser island.

A welcome change to freshly caught fish every night[biggrin]

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Can't beat pipi, mmmm pipi fritters, love em.

Pipi fritters, sounds nice. As good as white bait fritters?

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Originally Posted by bob10

Pipi fritters, sounds nice. As good as white bait fritters?

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Nope...nothing is as good or as expensive, as a whitebait fritter!! I doff my hat to your knowledge of fritters ol son. :-)

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Originally Posted by Gordie

Nope...nothing is as good or as expensive, as a whitebait fritter!! I doff my hat to your knowledge of fritters ol son. :-)

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Purely from my Aunt, a Maori princess [ at least to us [smilebigeye]]

Once again the Chinese have cornered the market.

Chinese farmer breeds roaches for the table - The Hindu

Cockroaches are edible, especially if fed on fresh fruit and vegetables, and may taste like chicken.

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