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Old 12/24/11, 11:50 AM
 
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There are some rather cockamamie theories about how third world vegans get their vitamin B12, but let's face it, it comes from the bugs and weevils in their rice and vegetables.
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Like lobster? Lobsters are second cousins to roaches. Mainers call them bugs.

One common type of red food dye is ground up bugs.

Silk is basically bug poop.

Honey is bug spit.

Grits often taste better with a few bugs...
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Old 12/24/11, 03:06 PM
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I'm fairly certain my home processed foods have bugs in em too.
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Old 12/24/11, 03:16 PM
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I am sure there are things a person fixes even from their home garden that may get into the preparation. No big deal, a little protein here, a little extra there. Gee we breath in much worse things in the air and it seems humans are still on this earth.
Just that with companies that are in the food processing HAVE to list somewhere that a few things may actually be in the product.
There is no way to keep everything in a sterile situation throughout the entire process, and that goes in your homes food prep as well.
Just that stories like this make good headlines on some earthly type mags.
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Like lobster? Lobsters are second cousins to roaches. Mainers call them bugs.
They're very DISTANTLY related to insects.
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Old 12/24/11, 05:20 PM
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If you really want to see a bunch of bugs in food look at garden fresh broccolli, cauliflower, blackberries , etc. under a normal strength magnifying glass after washing them. If you really want to get grossed out look at garden fresh organically grown veggies.

If that doesn't gross you out enough just think of all the stray cats that fertilize your home grown veggies for you and all the birds, moles ,rats and other stray critters that nibble on them when you arn't around.

Store bought, home growed, it don't matter your always eating a little sumptin extra.

My girlfriend was gonna throw out a 10 pound bag of flour last week just because of a few weevils in it. I explained to her that weevils live in the flour as the eggs hatch in storage silos and the bugs get sifted out as its packaged for sale as I sifted out the bag she intended to toss.

Thirty minutes later as I poured the weevil free flour into a plastic bag to put in her fridge and tossed the culled weevils in her outside trash she told me I might as well bring that flour home with me because she wasn't eating it.

I told her no sweat but reminded her that she always liked my home baked bread and sometimes I had to weevil cull my flour befor putting it in my refigerated 10 pound plastic cannister but I knew there were no crawling weevils left in it and 350 degrees kills weevil eggs and sterilized any weevil #1or #2 in it.
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Mmmmm! Weevils! Extra protein for the anti-carb crew!
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Mmmmm! Weevils! Extra protein for the anti-carb crew!
When you find two weevils in your food which do you eat?

You always eat the smaller, or lesser of two weevils!
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When you find two weevils in your food which do you eat?

You always eat the smaller, or lesser of two weevils!
LOL!
I'll toast the lesser!
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When you find two weevils in your food which do you eat?

You always eat the smaller, or lesser of two weevils!
Oh BOOOOOOOO!

LMAO.

If you want some serious bug protein try cleaning up some hen-o-the wood mushrooms. They don't get in the shroom, but they sure get on it. Luckily, just about anything is good sauteed in garlic butter.
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Processed foods that contain "strawberry flavor" don't contain much if any strawberry at all, it is actually a ground up beetle that gives it the "flavor". Yumm.
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http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancecomp.../ucm056174.htm

Yikes!
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They're very DISTANTLY related to insects.
in the old days cape codders used them as fertilizer.

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in the old days cape codders used them as fertilizer.

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At one point there was a law passed that they could not feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts more than once a week. Any more than that was considered cruel.
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At one point there was a law passed that they could not feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts more than once a week. Any more than that was considered cruel.
I read in "The Lobster Chronicles", a best-seller from a few years ago, that it was 3 times a week. Anyway, at the time they were so plentiful, people could just walk on the beach and pick them up.
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I read in "The Lobster Chronicles", a best-seller from a few years ago, that it was 3 times a week. Anyway, at the time they were so plentiful, people could just walk on the beach and pick them up.
Could be 3 times a week. Read it a long time ago. Poor inmates................

Of course it just wouldn't be the same without drawn butter.
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