In article >,
enigma > wrote:

> Victor Smootbank > wrote in
> oups.com:
>
> > You know, World War III is near and soon we won't be
> > able to buy food anymore. We'll have to eat maggots,
> > worms and beetles.
>
> speak for yourself. i'm going to be eating deer, turkey, some
> beef, eggs, drinking milk...

And there are plenty of wild weeds. Prickly pear cactus apples are good
as are the young pads from the plant itself. Wild grains, thistles,
wildflowers, acorns (properly processed), nutgrass roots, dandilion
greens, purslane, etc.

>
> > So I think its necessary to think about recipes now.
> > How would you cook maggots? How would you prepare
> > worms? How would you prepare beetles, cockroaches
> > and slugs???
>
> first, you tell me how you're going to catch them. and how
> you're going to tell the poisonous beetles from the edible
> ones. if you can waste the time to catch enough grubs to
> bother, why wouldn't you just snare a rabbit instead?
> lee

Grasshoppers, aka "brush shrimp".

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