One food that you will never eat is...

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Originally Posted by Langod

Insects.

I hear about people in extreme survival situations eating bugs. yeerch.
I don't think I could do that no matter how close to starving to death I was.
A big ol' freakin spider, or a centipede or something? No thanks, I'll starve.

I've eaten bugs before and didn't really mind it. There's a place in L.A., Typhoon (http://www.typhoon.biz/), that specializes in it. We started off with a small bowl of ants. They weren't my favorite since they were kind of bitter. Then they brought out crickets with shoe string potatoes and garlic. Quite tasty and a good play on textures. Then we progressed to the chicken stuffed waterbugs. Man, those came out the same way they went in. Anyway, it was our first time eating insects so we also ordered some 'normal' food.

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

I tried that when I was in Jakarta, as a desert after my Cobra sate and Gekko sate dinner

Is it as pungent as everyone says?