Close to Home by John McPherson for June 11, 2022

It’s just extra protein dude. It will be okay.

Don’t worry, they don’t eat much.

well not in any one bite.

Enjoy your breakfast….Just be glad it wasn’t Red Ants. (By the look on his face, perhaps it was)

In French, ants are “les Fourmis.” Because they have formic acid in them to work on wood, etc. One night in the dark, I reached out to my desk to get a cough drop. Dang! it tasted awful! Turning on the light revealed that the ants had found the open box of cough drops.

So I totally relate to his expression…

faint Suddenly Wasabi sounds a good idea

“No, I didn’t put any raisins in it – just ants.”

I took a big swig of coke that had been infested with black ants. Those ants had a fiery taste to them. Of course, I spat them out immediately.

I pulled an open bag of potato chips out of my cabinet and started eating them while watching TV. They tasted different but good. Then I looked, crawling with ants, LOL!

My sister found some Chocolate covered ants at a specialty store and fed them to me when I was little. I don’t remember the event, but I don’t care about ants as much as some people do. (https://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-covered-ants-16438)

Now he has ants in his antrum!

Y’all are giving me the creeps!!! :-0

Trivial Factoid:

Located on the North American continent and established in the 16th century by European colonization and emerging from 13 British Colonies along its east coast, is the country we all know and love, the…

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— your friends at Autocorrect

Gtrandma, with bad eyes, didn’t see the tiny beetles in the breadcrumb box. Her boiled onions looked like they had pepper on them. A few folks ate them before discovering they were beetles!

The real Ant-Man origin

have done this…not fatal but you wish you were dead…

Snap crackle squirm

What’s the problem? If it’s moving, leave it alone.

In a junior high school science class, we were offered the opportunity to try eating red ants. I thought they tasted rather like lemonade (thanks to the formic acid}.

Oh no. They got into the Fig Newtons too!

Kind of like biting into an apple and seeing half a worm.

Added protein. Shouldn’t hurt him….

Our daughter taught English in Ethiopia a few years ago. She told us she and her coworkers would throw away the raisins the first year. The second year they’d pick the ants out. The third year they ate the raisins, ants, and all!

Just think of it as adding some protein to your breakfast.

We just ate at Xochi restaurant, which has both ants and grasshoppers incorporated in some of their food dishes.

Extra protein.

I was eating a bowl of raisin bran in the dark, noticed that it seemed to be crumblier than usual. Turned on the light and discovered that I had eaten most of a bowl of ant-infested cereal. It didn’t taste any different than usual, but I couldn’t eat any more.

Mmmm, extra crunchy raisins with added protein!

This actually just happened to me, I had throw out my breakfast.

Uh, oh!

Raisins in ice cream with or without ants is disgusting.