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Most thing i would try once before deciding if I like them or not. I tried some fried worms here that were once offered: no big deal, very crunchy and salty, like some western snacks.
I think it is all mental. After all people in the west eat things that are also ugly and unappealing to those who have not eaten them since early age: snails, oysters, mussels, etc. and some others that many Asians find often disgusting like cheese (rotten milk, yuk!!)
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:06 am on Dec. 7, 2002
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Smegma's right with it's all in the head.... what we are used to in our culture.
I am a totally irrational on this one... I am far from vegetarian but I do get squeemish about lots of foodstuffs even here in the west... blood-sausage, horse steaks, haggis, cow stomach stuff that looks like cabbage, snails, froglegs etc...
Mind you I must be THE hypocrite on this as I let my favourite horse ever be slaughtered for human consumption as otherwise I wouldn't have got the insurance money. (heck I even watched her get the pen shot through her skull and her throat cut).
To answer the Q... no I won't eat the insects in LOS, tho my S.O will.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 6:37 am on Dec. 7, 2002
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I've had the grasshoppers, ants and locusts/larger grasshoppers. They taste okay, not great not terrible. The big ants were actually pretty good, mixed in with lemongrass and chilis, so it had a lot of flavor. I think the girls like to offer these to see how you react, so I like to react as if it is no big deal.
Food is food. As some have indicated here it seems every culture has some food that other cultures find strange. I think many Thais would find the French obsession with cheese a bit bizarre. In some Latin American cultures deep fried fat is a delicacy. Which sounds pretty disgusting to me until I consider that bacon isn't so far off from that and is delicious.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:08 am on Dec. 7, 2002
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Smegma
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Quote: from seubeu on 10:08 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
.....In some Latin American cultures deep fried fat is a delicacy. Which sounds pretty disgusting to me until I consider that bacon isn't so far off from that and is delicious.
It isn't just a piece fat for the sake of fat, it is actually the pig's skin with a layer of fat attached -sometimes you find a few hairs also atached if eating the home made variety in a rural area  It is actually the same snack that can be found here and in the Philliipines. I like it. In the place of South America where I ate it, it is called "chicharron"
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 9:41 am on Dec. 7, 2002
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pinga
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I was told that grasshoopers were a plague long time ago. Then the king said this insect was nutritive and in few years Thai people in the country side wipe the animals off.....now they are taking them from Cambodia....weird!!!!
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 1:32 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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Quote: from X on 7:37 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
Smegma's right with it's all in the head.... what we are used to in our culture.
I am a totally irrational on this one... I am far from vegetarian but I do get squeemish about lots of foodstuffs even here in the west... blood-sausage, horse steaks, haggis, cow stomach stuff that looks like cabbage, snails, froglegs etc...
Snails, frogs...Yum, yum ! with mucho garlic of course
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:46 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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aurum
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compared to some of the snacks offered at 7/11, a great deal....
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:36 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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It is really easy to start picking apart one cuisine or another versus one's own.
Lots of weird stuff in Chinese food?
The Japanese eat raw fish.
The French are into snails.
The Scots stuff sheep's stomachs with God knows what (haggis).
Ever smell an orthodox Jewish kitchen?
Or an African kitchen after slaughtering and cooking goat?
You guys haven't even scratched the surface of what some Thais (or ethnic minority Thais) eat. Try fried leeches (engorged with blood of course) = bing tawt. Actually quite good, especially when you don't know.
Recent article about an Aussie who survived on goanna lost in the Northern Territories for several weeks, which is a lot like a Thai "heeya" (monitor lizard). I've eaten a lot of lizard in Thailand, mostly tastes like chicken. But ask a Thai if they eat Heeya and they will not be happy with the question.
Doesn't India have some singular delicacies?
Unless one is really just talking food, it is all too easy for this sort of conversation to degenerate to Us Vs Them, a slippery slope. The ultimate extension of this is I'm not happy with Anyone but Thee and Me, and I'm not too sure about Thee.
Let's not ignore the USA. In the rural East squirrel is a very popular dish. Alligator tail in the deep south. Is that any stranger than croc? No just smaller. Better us eating them than the other way round! Parts of the tail taste like fish, other parts like chicken.
If you ever go through a survival course you will learn to gather, cook and eat (cooking may be optional), roots, fungi, grubs, berries etc. Knowing the good ones from the toxic ones is always a positive thing. Snakes, man, snakes are great after a week of grubs. More chicken flavor.
MrJoe can amplify on the snake eating theme. If he wishes.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:19 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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cmore
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I've been allergic to fish my whole life. Even the smell of fish being fried causes an attack. However a few years ago I decided to try shrimp since it's considered seafood instead of fish and I found I wasn't allergic to it. So during my last visit to LOS I experimented with other seafoods. Imagine a 44 year old man having clams and oysters for the first time in his life, and enjoying it. Now I just have to work up the nerve to try lobster. Peace
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 7:40 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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cmore
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However there isn't enough nerve in the world to get me to try lizard or snake. Wuss, and proud of it  . Peace
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:43 pm on Dec. 7, 2002
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