Bugs on the Menu

[Organ Morgan.]

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Bills lab grown meat will be on the menu.

We need you here to tackle the goggle box viewers.

You're not much help on Mumsnet discussing knitting patterns.

[Mrs Steve R]

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We need you here to tackle the goggle box viewers.

You're not much help on Mumsnet discussing knitting patterns.

I'm sure TBG would love to hear some more about the great reset

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I'm sure TBG would love to hear some more about the great reset

I think some of our loopier posters neet a reset. It's just endless repetition by the conspiracist cabal.

[the other bob wilson]

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Although I could never become a full on Vegan, I now prefer the "plant" version of many foods to the genuine article. I draw the line at bacon though, I tried meat free bacon and it was awful - it fell apart in as I try to peel off each slice and it just ended up as a tasteless mess. However, when it comes to, say, sausages and burgers, I'll go for the meat free versions every time because I genuinely believe that if you cooked one for somebody without telling them what they were actually eating, they'd think nothing of it - nearly all of the mince I cook these days is meat free as well.

As for eating insects, I can remember stories from about fifteen years ago it must be now about how they would be a regular part of the human diet in the future and that the response from people that tried some of the food made from insects of that time was fairly positive. My point in mentioning the food made from plants above is that, as someone who has only been eating vegan/vegetarian food for about five years, the quality and range of products available has increased beyond all recognition during that time. Therefore, if it came to a situation where we all had to eat "bugs", I'm sure they'd soon be provided in a form that made their consumption nowhere near as unpleasant as the gloomsters on here try to make out.,

[jon1959]

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so if you have eaten bugs out in Asia have you eaten bats ?

supposed to be big on the menu out there

No - never. I think it was cicadas I ate (deep fried at the roadside and very crispy).

I don’t remember seeing bats on any food stall (although they eat anything in south China). TBG may be the one to ask as most travelled poster on here.

[Organ Morgan.]

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I'm really not convinced Taunton Blue Meanie's as peripatetic as he claims.

Actually, I'd be less than surprised to learn he's never travelled farther than the Isle of Wight, and his globetrotting Ryanair adventures are fictitious.

[Rjk]

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No - never. I think it was cicadas I ate (deep fried at the roadside and very crispy).

I don’t remember seeing bats on any food stall (although they eat anything in south China). TBG may be the one to ask as most travelled poster on here.

yeah I've never seen bats for sale over there so I guess it's pretty unusual, I've been to Wuhan a few times too.

I've seen people eating them on Chinese social media but I took that to be performative mostly, as there were also plenty of other horrible things being eaten, including live baby rats.
that said the great famine there will still be in many people's living memory and it was so bad that people literally had to eat whatever they could find in many places, so this does still cast a long shadow.

interestingly in bats they have an incredible ability to repair their DNA throughout their body, they are practically immune to cancers or genotoxic substances, and it means they have a incredibly long lifespan for a mammal of that size around 40 years in some species compared to small rodents who live 2-4 years.
I wonder if this incredible resilience and longevity means that the viruses that live in bat populations have had to evolve to be so much more aggressive and pervasive, which is why they cause so many problems when they cross over to other (weaker) species.

interesting that bats might hold the key to humans being able to live hundreds of years, or they might be brewing the next plague that will decimate us.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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No - never. I think it was cicadas I ate (deep fried at the roadside and very crispy).

I don’t remember seeing bats on any food stall (although they eat anything in south China). TBG may be the one to ask as most travelled poster on here.

It is said that the Chinese eat anything that has legs. Apart from tables, that is.

For my part, I was given the guest of honour treatment in being served the duck's feet when eating out in China with some contacts I have over there. It's not an honour I particularly appreciated.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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yeah I've never seen bats for sale over there so I guess it's pretty unusual, I've been to Wuhan a few times too.

I've seen people eating them on Chinese social media but I took that to be performative mostly, as there were also plenty of other horrible things being eaten, including live baby rats.
that said the great famine there will still be in many people's living memory and it was so bad that people literally had to eat whatever they could find in many places, so this does still cast a long shadow.

interestingly in bats they have an incredible ability to repair their DNA throughout their body, they are practically immune to cancers or genotoxic substances, and it means they have a incredibly long lifespan for a mammal of that size around 40 years in some species compared to small rodents who live 2-4 years.
I wonder if this incredible resilience and longevity means that the viruses that live in bat populations have had to evolve to be so much more aggressive and pervasive, which is why they cause so many problems when they cross over to other (weaker) species.

interesting that bats might hold the key to humans being able to live hundreds of years, or they might be brewing the next plague that will decimate us.

Interesting post, old fruit.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I'm really not convinced Taunton Blue Meanie's as peripatetic as he claims.

Actually, I'd be less than surprised to learn he's never travelled farther than the Isle of Wight, and his globetrotting Ryanair adventures are fictitious.

I've never been to the Isle of Wight, old fruit.

[Wales-Bales]

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interestingly in bats they have an incredible ability to repair their DNA throughout their body, they are practically immune to cancers or genotoxic substances, and it means they have a incredibly long lifespan for a mammal of that size around 40 years in some species compared to small rodents who live 2-4 years.
I wonder if this incredible resilience and longevity means that the viruses that live in bat populations have had to evolve to be so much more aggressive and pervasive, which is why they cause so many problems when they cross over to other (weaker) species.

When it comes to trusting the science, "I Wonder" are the last two words I want to hear!

[Rjk]

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It is said that the Chinese eat anything that has legs. Apart from tables, that is.

For my part, I was given the guest of honour treatment in being served the duck's feet when eating out in China with some contacts I have over there. It's not an honour I particularly appreciated.

some parts of China more-so than others.

not only the types of animal, but also the parts of the animal, duck tongues, fish eyes, ligaments, bone.

the west and probably especially the British are like babies gastronomically, eating our bland water filled chicken breast and at a push some farmed salmon

[Canton Kev]

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When it comes to trusting the science, "I Wonder" are the last two words I want to hear!

You trust the science?

[Rjk]

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When it comes to trusting the science, "I Wonder" are the last two words I want to hear!

that's why I wrote it to indicate which part of the sentence was factual and which was speculation by me.
you should try it some time.

[the other bob wilson]

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I've never been to the Isle of Wight, old fruit.

Jeez and you call yourself a globe trotter - anything you want to know about Ryde and Shanklin, I'm your man