The Messy Water

Entomophagy

Entomophagy is a culture of human taking insects as food, has been put into practice by the Thais since quite some time ago. Not sure when this practice got started, some says it was a culture being spread from Vietnam during the war between Vietnam and the US.

During the war time, Vietnamese refugees who were hiding in the jungle without food, started taking raw insects as their source of food to survive under extreme starvation. In fact, research has shown that those insects which were taken as food were rich in protein, and they are easier to be digested and more effective in building human cells as compared to normal meat.

Probably this was one of the reasons why Vietnamese managed to kick the US arse to the “Asian Waterloo”??

During dinner one day, one of my collegues bought a pack of grasshopper for a small Fear Factor challenge

Our lady collegue, Carroll took the lead for the first bite

My turn. seriously, i got goosebump all over my body when i started biting it. Hmm.. pretended nothing happened due to my male ego.hehe..Seriously, it was really tasty, especially the head, the feeling was like eating prawns!

The person who initiated this Fear Factor, Michael, took up one, and decided to put it back. He "waterlooed" and raised the white flag.

Humans got infected by all kinds of new found diseases without cure everyday...Probably, this is one of the reasons why it is so. Would it cause by Entomophagy? As insects tend to carry viruses? Gosh, i better go for a checkup the sonnest possible...