[Faline]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

As a snack

Do you eat Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

EEK! Call me old-fashioned, but, I like my food to be dead

I've eaten chocolate covered ants

[kellyhound]

With a name like “blister beetle,” the Coleoptera family of insects don’t sound like they do much for your health, but they could. U.S. researchers, in trying to find a way to battle cancer, have recently turned their attention to the blister beetle. It has long been used in traditional forms of medicine, and more recently, it has been linked to anti-cancer abilities.

Also known as “Spanish fly” and “cantharidin,” blister beetles have long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Vietnamese Medicine. The substance cantharidin, which is secreted by the beetle, is known to block a number of proteins in the body. For this reason, it has been used to battle viral infections, warts, and cancer. Researchers tested to see how cantharidin reacted with certain genes, discovering that it is “potentially useful” in the treatment of tumors. And they weren’t talking about just any tumors, but those that don’t respond to other forms of treatment—the stubborn tumors, the cancers that are very hard to stop.

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

As a snack

Do you eat Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

EEK! Call me old-fashioned, but, I like my food to be dead

I mean I love insects as part of my sweet ingredients!

Have had chocolate covered ants from Selfridges, not much flavour. I'd eat large ones for a dare though

[Shawn Michaels]

Originally Posted by Sharon. ↗

Have had chocolate covered ants from Selfridges, not much flavour. I'd eat large ones for a dare though

But would you dare eat chocalate covered bullet ants from Selfridges!?! I heard they pack quite a shot

[Feirefiz]

It's the same stuff that was used for old gramophone records:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac#Current.2C_Minor