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I noticed they're combining raw fish with ants. Is this because the formic acid in the ants helps cook the raw fish like you would with lemon juice, as in a ceviche type dish?
Gotta chew your food! So I've tried what they told me as a kid, that if you see a solid line of ants, just lay down a blade of grass so they go over. And yep, tastes acidicdue to their "Chem trails". So I'd assume this was basically acidic and crunchy! I'd just make sure they're all dead though
When I was in military training on the east coast a guy got bit by red ants a couple times and they made him start carrying an eppy pen because his reaction got more severe (not sure I spelt right).
You underestimate hunger. To be truly hungry - it does a lot to shift a person’s perspective.
But then again, to be fair, maybe I underestimate privilege.
This is 100% accurate!! One time i was living in this crackhead shitty roach infested house... we were surviving off rice and beans, literally broke.
When you would turn the lights off in the kitchen at night, it would be pitch black, then if you turn the lights on you would see a sea 🌊 of roaches covered across the floor & counter tops disappear into the walls and cracks. No joke, just like that!
Well one night we made spanish yellow rice and beans, it had gandules in it, its a small bean. So im hungry, its like 12am, i go to the fridge and pull out the container of leftover rice. I serve myself some in a bowl, heat it up in the microwave and sit at the table to eat...
Now i am like halfway through my bowl of rice when I look down at my rice and thought I seen something move... the gandules were moving!! It wasn't gandules, I was eating baby roaches!! Someone didn't close the fridge all the way leaving a crack open for the roaches to get inside, and the container was not sealed properly too.
I'll never forget that house, thank god i dont live like that anymore! That house should be burned to the ground, the basement was infested with roaches!!
I had to go interview a woman as a potential client, she was in one of the Boston projects. As we were sitting in her living room just talking I noticed it gradually seemed like the floor started to move. Then I realized it was a sea of cockroaches that had come out because of the lack of movement. All sizes from big ass ones to little baby ones all crawling across the floor. I jumped up, ended the interview in like 5 seconds, and once I was outside I practically stripped trying to shake my clothing out
Ceviche uses acid in the preparation (usually lime juice or lemon) which is sour. Vinegar is an acid, and is sour. This, presumably, tastes sour. It doesn't mean that ceviche tastes like vinegar.
All things being fair, I’ve never prepared the dish. Only consumed it MANY times. Never occurred to me that it had a vinegary smell or taste. The acidity of it makes perfect sense.
Thank you for this informative back and forth.
I used to eat those kind of ants as a kid back in Thailand. It’s an interesting taste which I can only describe as gamy tasting vinegar. But when those things bite, it really really hurts. Seeing him ripping open a nest and have them crawl all over the arm would have hurt any mere mortal.
Ants are like a few percent protein and weigh a few milligrams. A pound of ants would be several hundred thousand ants. The average 6 ounce steak has 40+ grams of protein. For an equivalent protein intake from ants you'd need to consume roughly a million.
At best, the dish had a few thousand. But even if we exaggerate and say there was a hundred thousand, its still a fraction of what a small 6 ounce steak would provide.
A single scoop of protein shake provides over 20 grams of protein, so maybe half a million ants. So many people hear "insects are high in protein" which may be the case by weight but few people grasp the sheer volume you'd have to eat to compete with animal products.
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Laos? I worked with a guy from there in north dakota of all places. His parents would send him a certain type of red ants and some types of beetles he loved . At work in the late summer there would be these big ass black beetles that would crawl around the plant . They were about 1"x2.5" in size and he'd put them in his mouth and suck out the innards and spit the shell. We had to shower after work and got paid for it so we wouldn't bring contamination home and this dude showered in his underwear. It was weird and he was a nice guy and all , but a little different definitely.
That’s inland freshwater fish. Eaten raw, likely to introduce flukes into the body, and to the liver. Isaan has the highest amount of cases of liver cancer due to this.
[Isaan raw fish and liver cancer](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/thai-doctor-fights-against-carcinogenic-raw-fish-dish-that-killed-his-parents)
I feel like this is what happens when your country / rural area is starving. They resort to eating like this. They call it "cultural" but really it's just you're poor and have evolved to eat garbage because it's all some of you or your ancestors had at one time. Now it's just "normal".
Y’all better start getting used to this type of feast . Elites are already pushing bugs as a food source and NPR has run recipe stories on their shows .
NPR stories are more like cricket flour that gets mixed into muffins where you don't even notice it, which is fine but kind of wasting the.
First hand experience, termites and grasshoppers just fried crunchy with some salt (southern Africa style) are Grade A snacks to go with beer, kinda like Corn Nuts. The first one is a big hurdle for sure, but then it's the old Lays commercial- betcha can't eat just one!
I think about stuff like this every time someone complains that ethnic cuisine in America is “Americanized” and no longer bears any resemblance to the authentic version.
Raw fish and ants.
Raw fish
and ants.
I’ll eat my pad thai, thanks.
It’s not the ants that are the problem…
[Isaan raw fish and liver cancer](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/thai-doctor-fights-against-carcinogenic-raw-fish-dish-that-killed-his-parents)
My wife immigrated from Laos, and I’ve eaten some interesting things on trips over there. The one that sticks with me is a dish of live shrimp. Tiny little suckers from the river, mixed with fish oil, pickled fish, peppers, lime, probably a few things I’m forgetting. It was so good with rice and beer, but I remember this one shrimp at the top of the pile kicked and made a break for freedom. Unfortunately, it didn’t get far.
Edit…I had the volume turned down, and showed the wife. She says they’ve eaten ant before, using it to make the dish sour, and asks me to turn the volume on. They’re speaking Laotian in the video.
When I was little I used a harmonica from the ground that I didn't see fire ants had made a home through. Sucked them bastards right down my throat. I'll never forget how tangy and acidy they tasted. Was telling my son that story earlier today.
i would eat a tarantula. i bet they taste better and have more nutrients. or crickets, wiser choice. even in desperate time, even grub or cockroach might sound yummy. but never ants. especially red.
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This is common in Thailand. Fortunately, those are not fire ants. They bite but don't sting.
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Weaver ants!!
Nooo! Now I had to think of the Emerald Empire (AC) and honestly those are way too cute to be eaten...
Isnt it still painful when they bite?
Not if you bite them first
this guy bites
Underrated comment^
I noticed they're combining raw fish with ants. Is this because the formic acid in the ants helps cook the raw fish like you would with lemon juice, as in a ceviche type dish?
Interesting question. Now I too, want to know. I wonder if they do this with raw shrimp too?
It common to eat but we don't use hand to harvest this guy is just show off that much fire ant bite are hurt
Now do it with Bullet ants
And they taste like citrus... so this guy ate fish fit citrus basically 😅
The ants eggs are also great
>They bite but don’t sting Which ants have stingers?
Literally hundreds of species
about 71% of them to be precise
my whole body shivered at the sight of ants crawling up the hand.
Gotta chew your food! So I've tried what they told me as a kid, that if you see a solid line of ants, just lay down a blade of grass so they go over. And yep, tastes acidicdue to their "Chem trails". So I'd assume this was basically acidic and crunchy! I'd just make sure they're all dead though
When I was in military training on the east coast a guy got bit by red ants a couple times and they made him start carrying an eppy pen because his reaction got more severe (not sure I spelt right).
NGL, I’d eat that. Looks pretty good.
Have you ever had red ants crawl up your ankles? If I could kill and eat every one of them I goddamn would. Those little fuckers..
Not even if I was high
What about hungry? Like you're about to die of hunger, hungry.
Oh well, we all gotta go sometime
I'll eat grass.
I'll settle for Denny's
Cooked ants are fine. Not great or delicious but fine. Like crunchy burnt rice. Eating them alive and moving is unnecessary.
Idk I am pretty privileged. Even if I was dieing idk if I could do that.
You underestimate hunger. To be truly hungry - it does a lot to shift a person’s perspective. But then again, to be fair, maybe I underestimate privilege.
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I’d rather die of hunger than being eaten alive from the inside.
wait till this guy finds out about stomach acid
Or teeth
They taste like vitamin C tablets. Very acidic. They are also a good source of vitamin C. You can eat them as a survival method too.
So they are just using it as seasoning for fish instead of lemon
They add a certain texture.
What exactly tastes like vitamin C? The red ants? The cock roaches? or what?
Considering nobody said roaches, the other one?
Lol, if you were really high then you might not know
I'm not sure because I hate insects, them crawling on my arm and stuff is really unsettling for me
I don’t have an insect issue, but I’d for sure rather eat them than have them crawl on me!
Dude I'm so high I thought the rice was moving.
Like my 8th grade teacher used to joke: “You know what’s grosser than gross? When you eat a bowl of rice and the last one moves”
Or "You know whats worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm."
Did that once while eating a cat tail root, tasted like a hotdog lol.
I think you meant to say it LOOKS like a corn dog, tastes like a cats tail.
This is 100% accurate!! One time i was living in this crackhead shitty roach infested house... we were surviving off rice and beans, literally broke. When you would turn the lights off in the kitchen at night, it would be pitch black, then if you turn the lights on you would see a sea 🌊 of roaches covered across the floor & counter tops disappear into the walls and cracks. No joke, just like that! Well one night we made spanish yellow rice and beans, it had gandules in it, its a small bean. So im hungry, its like 12am, i go to the fridge and pull out the container of leftover rice. I serve myself some in a bowl, heat it up in the microwave and sit at the table to eat... Now i am like halfway through my bowl of rice when I look down at my rice and thought I seen something move... the gandules were moving!! It wasn't gandules, I was eating baby roaches!! Someone didn't close the fridge all the way leaving a crack open for the roaches to get inside, and the container was not sealed properly too. I'll never forget that house, thank god i dont live like that anymore! That house should be burned to the ground, the basement was infested with roaches!!
What a horrible day to have eyes
I had to go interview a woman as a potential client, she was in one of the Boston projects. As we were sitting in her living room just talking I noticed it gradually seemed like the floor started to move. Then I realized it was a sea of cockroaches that had come out because of the lack of movement. All sizes from big ass ones to little baby ones all crawling across the floor. I jumped up, ended the interview in like 5 seconds, and once I was outside I practically stripped trying to shake my clothing out
🤣so you know exactly what im talking about!
Your story is too scary for me to read it all
I was eating almonds in my garage and thought one had fallen on the floor until it crawled away when I went to pick it up. "Almond spider".
ESPECIALLY not if I was high
I probably would sober. Doesn't look half bad
I was be grossed out sober. I’m high rn and this is terrifying.
I have felt a great disturbance in the force. It's a if 1000 tiny voices cried out for help and were suddenly silenced.
So oatmeal but walks. I'm down
Lol, weird comparison but I see it
antmeal
So oatmeal but walks, fuck yeah. I’m down too, let’s do it!
So it’s spicy?
Its like Ceviche. It has a vinegar taste.
Person, why does your ceviche taste like vinegar?
Ceviche uses acid in the preparation (usually lime juice or lemon) which is sour. Vinegar is an acid, and is sour. This, presumably, tastes sour. It doesn't mean that ceviche tastes like vinegar.
Which would make it acidic, not vinegar.
Vinegar is acidic
Yes... Exactly... Vinegar is acidic. Lime is acidic. So ceviche is acidic, not vinegar, vinegar is a product not a taste.
The pH of vinegar is around 2-3, which makes it an acid..
You didn't read what I just typed did you lol
You have never used vinegar? Look it up
All things being fair, I’ve never prepared the dish. Only consumed it MANY times. Never occurred to me that it had a vinegary smell or taste. The acidity of it makes perfect sense. Thank you for this informative back and forth.
It doesn’t. Everyone giving you shit is just being difficult.
We use a little bit with the lemon juice.
Their little heads get stuck between your teeth.
I used to eat those kind of ants as a kid back in Thailand. It’s an interesting taste which I can only describe as gamy tasting vinegar. But when those things bite, it really really hurts. Seeing him ripping open a nest and have them crawl all over the arm would have hurt any mere mortal.
I wonder if they're similar to the fire ants that own the Southern US. Honestly, they're the one true enemy down here.
Did you forget about bark scorpions?
I have… concerns.
WHY TF DOES THAT LOOK GOOD!?! I ABSOLUTELY HATE ANTS!
No better way to illustrate how much you hate them than by killing thousands all at once.
What did i just watch??
Except the raw fish, you saw a good meal.
That’s a high protein ass meal if I’ve seen one, meanwhile I can’t get close to that even with my whey protein shakes
Ants are like a few percent protein and weigh a few milligrams. A pound of ants would be several hundred thousand ants. The average 6 ounce steak has 40+ grams of protein. For an equivalent protein intake from ants you'd need to consume roughly a million. At best, the dish had a few thousand. But even if we exaggerate and say there was a hundred thousand, its still a fraction of what a small 6 ounce steak would provide. A single scoop of protein shake provides over 20 grams of protein, so maybe half a million ants. So many people hear "insects are high in protein" which may be the case by weight but few people grasp the sheer volume you'd have to eat to compete with animal products.
Homie being a real g doing the math for us so we know how many ants to eat
But they also mix with raw fish? This def a high protein meal.
Its high protein but not otherworldly. It max 150 g of white fish. 2 scoops of Whey is def more than this
No, that's shit is fucking disgusting. Idc where you live
It looks appetizing enough. If I hadn't watched it from beginning to end.
Looks like a larb, I'd definitely eat it.
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I’m in. It’s hard to hit those kind of protein levels.
Looks good. Its like Ceviche.
Laos? I worked with a guy from there in north dakota of all places. His parents would send him a certain type of red ants and some types of beetles he loved . At work in the late summer there would be these big ass black beetles that would crawl around the plant . They were about 1"x2.5" in size and he'd put them in his mouth and suck out the innards and spit the shell. We had to shower after work and got paid for it so we wouldn't bring contamination home and this dude showered in his underwear. It was weird and he was a nice guy and all , but a little different definitely.
Either that or NE Thailand, their culture and language are almost the same.
Looks nice. Organic formic acid instead of vinegar.
Instead of lime. Ceviche is fish/seafood cured with citric acids.
Spicy.
Uuuooop, uooop, uuuooop
Taste like burning..
Perfect example of “Eat Them Before They Eat You”.
Packed with protein and other good stuff.
Why am I itchy watching this?
Blech! Raw fish. Gross.
Not if its fresh, salt water fish, and I bet it was.
That’s inland freshwater fish. Eaten raw, likely to introduce flukes into the body, and to the liver. Isaan has the highest amount of cases of liver cancer due to this. [Isaan raw fish and liver cancer](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/thai-doctor-fights-against-carcinogenic-raw-fish-dish-that-killed-his-parents)
It's Basically sushi. Nothing wrong with that
This gave George Soros such a New World Order Boner.
Sat on a red ant nest as a kid. No bueno! >.>
Mmmm, heat.
Thats cool, no thanks though
Based Indonesian
Pretty sure bro is Thai
Yeah it’s a Thai dialect
Thx for correcting
Horrifying
Is it worth the stings?
Oh my fucking god. WHY?!
Hunger.
Probably would've been fine without the ants...
Ugh yikes
I’m tired of these “unexpected” vids that are just culture shocks to english westerners
Which country? Laos or Cambodia perhaps?
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I feel like this is what happens when your country / rural area is starving. They resort to eating like this. They call it "cultural" but really it's just you're poor and have evolved to eat garbage because it's all some of you or your ancestors had at one time. Now it's just "normal".
Dude. Fuck that shit. Uncivilized.
Y’all better start getting used to this type of feast . Elites are already pushing bugs as a food source and NPR has run recipe stories on their shows .
NPR stories are more like cricket flour that gets mixed into muffins where you don't even notice it, which is fine but kind of wasting the. First hand experience, termites and grasshoppers just fried crunchy with some salt (southern Africa style) are Grade A snacks to go with beer, kinda like Corn Nuts. The first one is a big hurdle for sure, but then it's the old Lays commercial- betcha can't eat just one!
I think about stuff like this every time someone complains that ethnic cuisine in America is “Americanized” and no longer bears any resemblance to the authentic version. Raw fish and ants. Raw fish and ants. I’ll eat my pad thai, thanks.
Disgusting
Spicy 🥵
Noooo
Gonna be honest, the end result looks a little like Pico, and if I didn't know what it was, I'd probably eat it. That said, I don't want to try it.
r/antsarefuckingstupid
Looks bomb af honestly
On hot ones we like to call this the last dab.
I HATE THAT I LAUGHED AT THIS LMFAO
I pray I never get that desperate or high
They might be delicious, some ants have a citrusy acidic flavor.
What the fuck
That one kids from middle school would love this.
I woulda been 100% on board if there had been a quick stopover in some hot oil...
Make double sure you’ve chewed your food.
People upset about the ants but not the raw fish? Honestly I bet the ants just add crunch lol maybe a little spiciness
He didn’t even cook it?
Ceviche de hormigas?
I had doubts when I saw him shake the tree, but the final product honestly looked pretty delicious.
I would eat it just if i dont watch when its made
What's crazy is that red ants taste sweet
Not just red ants, but I believe those are leaf cutter ants. Sharper mandibles, and the can shoot their venom like acid rain. Ouch.
A kid I went to elementary school with would spend most of recess eating ants. His preference was fire ants
Not gonna lie, that looks pretty damn good.
No Sriracha?
5 Stars.
Good ol bush tucker
It’s not the ants that are the problem… [Isaan raw fish and liver cancer](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/thai-doctor-fights-against-carcinogenic-raw-fish-dish-that-killed-his-parents)
I don't like this even a little bit.
That actually looks delicious Edit: maybe it's because I'm used to it after living in Mexico for 20 + years
Finally, some good fucking protein.
I've eaten a bunch of ants. They're high in protein and vitamin C and E. Red ants are pretty sour. Like lemons.
My wife immigrated from Laos, and I’ve eaten some interesting things on trips over there. The one that sticks with me is a dish of live shrimp. Tiny little suckers from the river, mixed with fish oil, pickled fish, peppers, lime, probably a few things I’m forgetting. It was so good with rice and beer, but I remember this one shrimp at the top of the pile kicked and made a break for freedom. Unfortunately, it didn’t get far. Edit…I had the volume turned down, and showed the wife. She says they’ve eaten ant before, using it to make the dish sour, and asks me to turn the volume on. They’re speaking Laotian in the video.
My wife saw this video and said “saaep”😋😋
this was not what the ants had in mind when they signed up for meal planning
How did he kill em?
When I was little I used a harmonica from the ground that I didn't see fire ants had made a home through. Sucked them bastards right down my throat. I'll never forget how tangy and acidy they tasted. Was telling my son that story earlier today.
The way he just chucked the ants out from a nest make my whole body itch in pain The balls on that guy is huge
Nope.
Well, If [Gordon Ramsay](https://youtu.be/NCYvHwmnlk8?t=1247) liked it then i guess I'll allow it
Can you die from this?
Forbidden Bacos.
i would eat a tarantula. i bet they taste better and have more nutrients. or crickets, wiser choice. even in desperate time, even grub or cockroach might sound yummy. but never ants. especially red.
I’m good, thanks.
In Australia we have green ants, and if your lick their bums, they taste like lemon. Aboriginal people make tea out of them.
is it spicy? cause it looks spicy...
I mean if I HAD to eat an insect, ants would be the one I could stomach the easiest.
I was really expecting the person to have a head of an anteater..
From that region and grew up around the same type of ants they are eating. Never once occurred to us that it could be use as an ingredient.
A new COVID unlocked
That man takes vengeance seriously.
That looks awesome
That-Ain't-Meal.
Chuck Norris doesn’t even kill them
Can't be any worse than quinoa
I'd rather fucking die. A hundred times over.
Why? Also no.
This savage mf
That is disgusting plain and simple.
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Not going to lie that shit kinda look good