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One thing about rainy days that I like is seeing this freak showin up outside my house.A bit smaller than the last time,but who care! I get to hold them again,this one is a bit timid,it kept on crunchin back when I move...
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Google, man. They're pretty easy to care for, actually. http://www.ent.iastate.edu/zoo/care/millipede.html
Millipedes do not bite; but when disturbed they can produce an irritating fluid (using repugnatorial glands opening at the base of the legs). This fluid can irritate eyes, blister the skin, produce an unpleasant odor and cause allergic reactions in venom sensitive people. Some species can squirt their fluids several inches.
Some people say we should all eat bugs. Raising cattle and pigs are bad for the Earth and won't produce enough protein for the trillions of starving African and Asian babies that will be born in coming years. So we all have to learn to eat bugs to feed the new people. Ugh. Maybe we can eat the new people instead? (Human flesh is supposed to taste like ham, and is sometimes called Long Pork.)
Regardless of all that, there are people in other parts of the world who eat bugs already, and say they like it. But no major cultures eat bugs, I notice. It isn't part of Chinese or Indian cuisines anymore than part of the European diet. Generally, only hunter-gatherers in loin clothes and feathers eat bugs ... and the French. You have to mention that there are a few dishes in haute cuisine that involve insects ... as if frying slugs weren't bad enough. But almost nobody will order bugs off the cuisine, no matter how "haute."
Regardless of all that, there are people in other parts of the world who eat bugs already, and say they like it. But no major cultures eat bugs, I notice. It isn't part of Chinese or Indian cuisines anymore than part of the European diet. Generally, only hunter-gatherers in loin clothes and feathers eat bugs ... and the French. You have to mention that there are a few dishes in haute cuisine that involve insects ... as if frying slugs weren't bad enough. But almost nobody will order bugs off the cuisine, no matter how "haute."
I had already known a good number of these little facts, but there were several I hadn't known. I hear (please forgive me as I forget the specifics) there is a really nice recipe for bees in rice with fermented steak somewhere out there. Basically you put the meat (uncooked) and rice in a glass jar and leave it in the sun for about two weeks. Sautee some bees and put a few ice cubes in the meat-rice. I hear it's fairly nice.
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