The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-08
WILL YoU NAVE BUGq

Not in your ear, although a great many
men do 90 of with bug in their ear but
is there any particular insect that you
would like for your dinner? That's a cues
tion pUoPounded by the Burlington HHct-
eye, which goes on to say
Better people than You have eaten them,
not from necessity but choice People of far
better education, broader culture, higher
station in society have eaten them and liked
them. Aristotle was fond of lOcusts, fried
in sweet oil, and declares in excellent class
ic language that "they are sweet" In
Africa this locust, which is a distant re
lative of our grasshopper, Is baked into
kind of sweet cake. Some tribes make
bread of them. The people o. Ceyton eat
the honey bee. In some of the south Pacific
Islands the natives eaten large quantities of
butterflies, rub their wings otf, roast and
eat them. They invariably make the man
who eats them terribly sick for a few hours,
but il doesn't make any difference. His
taste is unchanged, and as soon as he Is able
to get around he starts ont after another
mess of butterflies. In the cities Of Morocco
today lOcusts the same kind that John the
Baptist ate, sold for food by the cart
/ load. The Australians eat caterpillars, and
/ the economical Chinese de-Our the unwOuud
silk-wOrm. The peasants of Southern
! France are not proud, but eat snail soup and
/ call for more.
In India the natives grind the white ants
| into powder which they sell for flour. aud
! the poorer people bake cakes of it. They
/ seem to enjoy them while they live, but as
| it gives the eater the cholera very quickiey
[ and very fatally, he does not live long
| enough to eat more than his weight in white
i ants. In Africa they don't grind the ant
into flour. They just parch them like corr
and crunch them down. En South America
the natives make cakes ont of the com
ground ant and Alexander Won HumbOld
saws the flavor OF the cakes is pleasant
This ant is used in fiavoring some of tn
cheaper brandies of Sweden, on account o
/ the formic acid IL secretes. In New Gale
donia the natives eat spiders, roasting them
} 1 The Roman ladies used TO eat the cOSSuS, tn
grub of a caterpillar found in the oak tree
They ate this when their order of beaut
, was a little too much Inclined to the 'scraw
, ny for this grub was as fattening as o
cake.
The NIexicans distil n liquor from tn
= I wevil, ana use II as stimulant. Poss
, bly, this is where the slang term "bnE juice,
! frequently used by the bibulous youu
= ! American as he calls for his morning decn
}, I tion, finds its origin. This same beetle
/ I broied and eaten in the West Indies
4 When the Larvae is big enough to eat, this
e what il looks like three inches long, on
q inch in circumference, color uluEy yellow
= looking like piece of fat and a black hea
n 1t doesn't look tempting, but roasted
i broiled, seasoned with salt and pepper, ga
I EN- with crumbled bread, the Hay pr
u fer IL TO oysters.
f Cheese mites are eaten by civilized ar
cultured people very frequently, 5ut Lene {
d ly i'm happy ignorance. In Kansas. Misso
N RI, Nebraska and portions of Iowa, "A fe
4 / white savages, who ought TO have know
y I better, cooked Erasshoppers aud ate thei
4 and tried TO induce other civilized peoI
=, ] TO do likewise OuT American Indians q
u well, they will DO well 10 close the cha
.e ter with-they eat anything that craw
'e and can't wriggle fast enough 10 get aw
y from them. 1t Is not particularly app
ir tizing subject. but it is interesting, and
l. may serve to make you more content, soI
m day when you quarrel with your dinner,
ne remember that good and bad food are, ma
n be, only matters OF taste, after all,