Thread: A simple guide to eating insects

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

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

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

Originally Posted by bob10

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

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

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. :-)

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

Once again the Chinese have cornered the market.

Chinese farmer breeds roaches for the table - The Hindu