34 yrs ago, I was like 15, my friend's dad gathered a bunch of them and fried them up on a skillet. I was a wuss them, didn't try it, but now I probably would.
That was what I was thinking, plenty of protein on the ground.
I read an article years and years ago about a scientist trying to figure out how people lived around the Great Salt Lake. He noticed salt covered dead grasshoppers washed up on the shore, got to thinking and sent samples to the lab. The lab said a cup of grasshoppers, which were easy to gather, had the protein of a Big Mac. Maybe calories too but it has been too long to remember.
When the kids were younger we would to Bug Fest at a local museum. I had a stir fry with grasshoppers which was good. Best part is that the legs made good tooth picks.
Just kidding about the last part. I think.
Best part of the trip was the kids... The Bug Fest had cookies that where sprinkled with ants. The kids wanted the cookies and asked if what looked to be ants, where ants. I said they were ants. They did not believe me. They did not WANT to believe me.
We went around and around with the kids asking if there were ants on the cookies and me saying yes. Eventually, they could not take it anymore, refused to believe I was telling the truth, or that anyone in their right mind would put ants on a cookie, even though we were at Bug Fest, so they ate the cookies, ants included.
Later,
Dan
