Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Weaver Ant Eggs

I ordered some weaver ant eggs from Thailand Unique quite a few months ago and let them sit on the shelf at home for awhile before I was brave enough to try them. Yes, even I am intimidated by food at times. The eggs weren't so daunting, as the almost fully formed ants inside the jar. One day I came upon them in the cabinet and thought, you know what? If I can eat gelled blood and silk worms, I can eat ant eggs. No problem! I had no idea, of course, how one properly cooks ant eggs though, so I just put some butter in a frying pan and cooked them on the stove top.




Now, they weren't delicious and I don't plan to get any again just to eat for fun, but they weren't bad. Like most bizarre foods, the yuck factor was 95% mental. Once I got over what they were, the taste was fine. Mason ate some, I ate some, but surprisingly the two who enjoyed them the most were my daughters. Go figure.



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