Would YOU eat THIS? - DPChallenge Forums

08/12/2010 03:22:38 AM · #1

Indigenous Australians love it - but would you be brave enough to try a Witchety Grub?

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

08/12/2010 05:01:53 AM · #2

Not just indigenous Australians.....when I was at school, we had a vegie garden...and it was normal for the students to munch away on them.

Beetle

08/12/2010 05:11:14 AM · #3

Originally posted by Judi:

Not just indigenous Australians.....when I was at school, we had a vegie garden...and it was normal for the students to munch away on them.

Were YOU one of them, Judi? I do wish I had the courage...

There are more and more restaurants around, too, that offer such very Aussie foods as kangaroo, crocodile, emu, witchety grubs etc.
I wonder if any of them make Galah soup, too ;-)

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

08/12/2010 05:24:17 AM · #4

Originally posted by Beetle:

Originally posted by Judi:
Not just indigenous Australians.....when I was at school, we had a vegie garden...and it was normal for the students to munch away on them.

Were YOU one of them, Judi? I do wish I had the courage...

There are more and more restaurants around, too, that offer such very Aussie foods as kangaroo, crocodile, emu, witchety grubs etc.
I wonder if any of them make Galah soup, too ;-)

Whilst I was the biggest tomboy in the world....and often mistaken for a boy....dammit....I could never bring myself to actually try one....and that has not changed at least!

I will say that I ate Crocodile Rolls two nights ago...I loooooooooooooooove that dish and have it a few times a year. My grandma used to cook kangaroo all the time....god that stuff stinks....I refuse to touch it!

NiallOTuama

Google Pixel 2

08/12/2010 06:31:31 AM · #5

They look revolting! I wonder how they taste.

There was a show on BBC called Guinness World Record Breakers (or sometehing) about 12 or 13 years ago or so, and there was a section of it where they have a fancy restaurant chef cook food you wouldn't ordinarily eat, things like bugs and these grubs. They gave them to the host where the thing was tastefully decorated so it didn't look like you were eating a stick insect, for example.
Then they got a volunteer form the audience to eat the same, except it wasn't decorated at all. It was just the stick insect.
It was funny when you were about 12 or 13 anyway.

To answer the title... yes if it didn't look like that. No if it did.

Abra

08/12/2010 06:31:57 AM · #6

I had a few when I was growing up in the bush but it's been over 30 years since my last witchety grub. Can't quite remember exactly how they tasted but know that they where a little nutty in flavour and that I rather liked them.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED

08/12/2010 08:03:35 AM · #7

You can buy Kangaroo in Woolworths btw!

NiallOTuama

Google Pixel 2

08/12/2010 09:02:45 AM · #8

Originally posted by Judi:

You can buy Kangaroo in Woolworths btw!

I've had Kangaroo and Ostrich. They were fine. But they also didn't look like a grub. And they were cooked nicely.

obscurity

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85

08/12/2010 09:08:14 AM · #9

Looks good to me. But I had spent years in Brazil with my dad's uncle and he loved to take me out into the wild so we would eat what we could find. Get a little bottle of buffalo wild wing sauce and those grubs would be awesome!

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

08/12/2010 09:09:03 AM · #10

Oh my. Looking at that while battling a stomach virus. oh myh.

hopper

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM

08/12/2010 09:22:17 AM · #11

i'll do it for 50 bucks :)

MelonMusketeer

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4

08/12/2010 10:30:33 AM · #12

One of my fav pranks is when in a restaurant that I haven't been in before with my son, who is 39 now, and both of us order exactly the same thing; a Ham Ram Spam Beef Bear & Buffalo club sandwich with a side order of Octopus arms and Lizard legs in a toasted Armadillo half shell. It breaks the ice, and gets a different response almost every time. We have been doing that for over 20 years.
Here in Florida, we do eat gator, gar fish, cooter (soft shell turtle), crawdads, and a lot of other things not normally found on the menu elsewhere. I think I'll pass on the grubs and gravy though.

Beetle

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

08/12/2010 05:39:33 PM · #13

Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

We have been doing that for over 20 years.

LOL....I wonder how many people point behind your back and whisper: "That's him!!! That's the weirdo I told you about!!" hehehehhehe

sfalice

Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

08/12/2010 09:21:19 PM · #14

Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:

And if anyone ever called your bluff, would you eat it? Hmmmmm?

I've eaten seal, puffin, ostrich, a few creepy crawlies and maybe a few unidentifiable yummies, but slowed down considerably on those items since I got old enough to know better.

cowboy221977

Canon EOS-60D

08/12/2010 09:26:38 PM · #15

cook him in peanut oil or maybee some olive oil..It should be ok then

snaffles

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08/12/2010 10:13:23 PM · #16

Saw a show called Survivorman or similar where a Canadian dude goes abroad and does survivor-y things. Being dumped in the Outback and having to eat yabbies and witchetty grubs (both of which he cooked, the yabbies aka crawdads/crayfish in boiling water, the witchetty grubs he roasted and said were delish.

Send him here,

Beetle! :-)

david_c

Canon EOS-7D

08/12/2010 10:30:22 PM · #17

Not even if I was on Fear Factor.

RayEthier