• Sprinklelicious@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    One of those things you buy but never to actually eat. I remember my brother bought me a beer that was made using yeast originally cultured from beard hairs belonging to the master Brewmaster (I believe rouge brewery made it). Could never bring myself to drink it. Sat in my shelf for years as more of a keep sake.

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        Some ants are actually pretty good. There are green tree cutter ants that are an awesome sour snack.

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            There’s a reason mammals have evolved into ant eaters at least 12 different times and it’s not because ants are bad food.

            High in protein, plentiful and tasty. A good bit of bush tucker.

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            So are shrimp and lobsters, basically. Some cultures eat dogs, others eat chickens, and some eat crickets/ants/weird-sea-crustaceans.

            I’m sure that some of the foods I ate as a kid would squick out many folks, but that’s not due to anything inherent in them. There’s nothing weird about eating ‘bugs,’ it’s just a weird semi-trained quirk you have.

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              I watched a Youtube video by Adam Ragusea about eating insects. He theorized that the only reason why bugs aren’t delicious is because they are too small to remove out of their shell. So if you shrink a lobster abd have to eat the entire thing, it would taste like any bug.

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      Beard beer! Yeah, rogue was definitely playing with things at the time (remember voodoo donut?). Gotta keep in mind this brewer had been brewing in a yeast laden environment for many years.

      I feel like I remember reading white labs sampled it and found it was a combo of several of their strains.

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        They also had that one whose yeast had been to space. Way the hell overpriced and not very good.

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      And then there’s the polish beer, made from yeast culture from a couple of models kootchies.

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      That’s fucking disgusting. Are they valuable? I pull one of those of my bath drain every couple of years if he ever needs another one.

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      Those bars are fine to eat, though. Spicy chocolate tastes good and the 2.2 million advertising is BS. They contain a tiny amount of pepper from 2 million+ scoville Carolina reaper peppers. Diluted down as the last ingredient in the chocolate bar makes it way, way, lower.

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        True true. This isn’t pure form. I probably would still avoid it myself, while I do like hot things, I have the worst luck so I’d somehow get the one they “accidentally” made 2.2 million Scoville lol.