Hey Airique,
I saw you mention in another thread that you tell people that you eat worms.
Do you mean earth worms? And if so, can you please share any information you can about preparation etc. I’ve been tempted for so long and would love to hear from someone who has eaten them. They seem to me to be such a promising food.
Thanks,
GH.
I’ve experimented a little with them. Squeezing the ingested grit out of their backend is rather tricky to do without pulling the worm apart, so maybe the slug/snail routine of starving them for a day or two is the way to go.
The ones I’ve managed to eat don’t taste too bad. Kinda like chicken gristle and very slightly salty. They’re a highly concentrated protein source. I don’t know how much vitamin B12 they have but if it’s there, the humble worm would make a good emergency food if other animals weren’t around.
I graze earthworms as I go, so while I till, while I walk through wet grass, and so on, wherever the wild ones sworm. I don’t bother starving and forcing them too faste. I ore little guys! I suppose because I wouldn’t want that to happen to me. Nor have I squeezed them to drain out their bodily waste, which I feel sounds like a good idea, in the raw edible since, because I can get sick of the after taste of dirt! I normally just bite through their vital organs, mouth, chew a little, and swallow, in that order. I also do this to the following under certain conditions: wax worms, meal warms, maggots, giant crickets, spider (in my sleep. don’t we all?:), ants, and others but I can’t remember them now.
I love exploring the world of edible (what a human can eat) insects, larva, bugs, arachnids, and other little Yummy Crawlies 8) For me, they feel like too much of a good thing to pass up when they can sustain me with a reliable source of nutrition and protein as I journey lesser independent on the store and product wealth, supporting our civilization. Which brings me to another one of my favorite rewilding and wilded edible delicacy, grasses and funnygus, which I hardly feel comfortable eating as a food source, ‘cause of my lack of studies with them. Although I hope to start making meals out of them this time next year or around since I have faith in myself that I’ll have enough knowledge and know how to make meals. And, I don’t eat them this year because I have tried making it priority to keep my edible focus stuck pretty much on the edibility of roots, herbs, shrubs, trees.
Somebody get me an editor besides myself. :
i think there might be a way to install a spell-checker into the forum. i’ll look into it.