REVENGE . A dish best eaten cold ?

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Kevin the grey

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I have been lamenting my fate of late . Skeeters are the worse I,ve sen them in years . I will deet up for serious long term sorties in the woods . If I have to do work that stirs up undergrowth or for a heavily infested tournament I,ll spray and pray . Usually if its just for a half hour shoot I,ll grin and bear it .

It was nice to watch this show on Thailand where chomping down on skittery multi legged exo-skeletoned invaders is considered a delicacy .
Anything from giant water bugs to scorpions and beyond are cleaned up , fried up and snarkled down like candy . I don,t think I,ll be chomping down on any skeeters real soon . It was nice to see some people getting revenge anyway .
Grasshoppers destroyed a local crop . They caught , sold and ate the little buggers .

In North America its "Waiter there is a fly in my soup ! "

Over there its . " Waiter you got some soup on my fly . "
 
Kevin the grey said:
I have been lamenting my fate of late . Skeeters are the worse I,ve sen them in years . I will deet up for serious long term sorties in the woods . If I have to do work that stirs up undergrowth or for a heavily infested tournament I,ll spray and pray . Usually if its just for a half hour shoot I,ll grin and bear it .

It was nice to watch this show on Thailand where chomping down on skittery multi legged exo-skeletoned invaders is considered a delicacy .
Anything from giant water bugs to scorpions and beyond are cleaned up , fried up and snarkled down like candy . I don,t think I,ll be chomping down on any skeeters real soon . It was nice to see some people getting revenge anyway .
Grasshoppers destroyed a local crop . They caught , sold and ate the little buggers .

In North America its "Waiter there is a fly in my soup ! "

Over there its . " Waiter you got some soup on my fly . "
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I have had crickets stuffed with a sliver of sweet potato and deep fried. They were actually very good. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside (the sweet potatoes, not whatever else you might be thinking of). Only problem is that crickets have never bothered me, and I kind of like 'em alive.
 
I'm with you kevin. Get them little buggers. Wonder if there is a career catching them here in the states and shipping them over there.
 
I can see it.... Andy's Arthopods. Insects for Human Consumption Shipped to Any Location.
Call us- we can work with any budget to cater an affair we guarantee nobody will ever forget!
jefptw, chief cricket chef

Now THERE'S an idea to retire on!
 
kamagong said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a skeeter?
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The skeeter is the State Bird of Minnesota, I think. Either that or the loon.

So far I haven't seen a single one this year which is a sign of how dry it is in these parts.
 
jefptw said:
I have had crickets stuffed with a sliver of sweet potato and deep fried. They were actually very good. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside (the sweet potatoes, not whatever else you might be thinking of). Only problem is that crickets have never bothered me, and I kind of like 'em alive.
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They only told you they were crickets .Its actually their big city cousin you were eating . Kitchen crickets .
 
If you visit the Everglades, or the mangrove swamps down at the southern tip of Florida, don't take any pets or children 40 lbs. or under with you. If it ain't bad enough they attract hungry gators, you can't turn your back on 'em or the skeeters will tote 'em off. :eek:

We used to launch out of Flamingo to go fishing, and we'd draw straws to see who the poor bastid was going to be to get out of the air conditioned vehicle to launch the boat. Wasn't a problem once you got out on open water, but on shore you did your best rendition of the dumbass dance and tried to get the boat launched before you got dizzy from blood loss. :eek:

Sarge
 
kamagong said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a skeeter?
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the mosquitos of northern alabama are famous for their ability to carry off small teenagers and even medium sized dogs. there is no truth in the stories that we train our pet skeeters to attack and carry off yankee's, well maybe not the male ones anyway...

here's my pet Buzzy preparing my dessert for the evening, notice how the high pitched buzz of her wings luls the victim into a state of ecstasy...

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you can just make out the dried husk of the blonde yankees former husband in the upper right corner, well, buzzy WAS thirsty after all that hard work rounding up my dessert, and i don't begrudge her the odd nawthn male once ina while, after all, they's a dime a dozen & we're not likely to run outta them, not with the current bag limit of two per season!
 
cliff355 said:
So far I haven't seen a single one this year which is a sign of how dry it is in these parts.
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I'll give you some of the record rain we've been getting in the northeast if you'll take out skeeters too. I got out of my car the other day and there were literally dozens waiting for me. :eek: I ran to the house. :o
 
kronckew said:
the mosquitos of northern alabama are famous for their ability to carry off small teenagers and even medium sized dogs. there is no truth in the stories that we train our pet skeeters to attack and carry off yankee's, well maybe not the male ones anyway...

here's my pet Buzzy preparing my dessert for the evening, notice how the high pitched buzz of her wings luls the victim into a state of ecstasy...

skeeter.jpg


you can just make out the dried husk of the blonde yankees former husband in the upper right corner, well, buzzy WAS thirsty after all that hard work rounding up my dessert, and i don't begrudge her the odd nawthn male once ina while, after all, they's a dime a dozen & we're not likely to run outta them, not with the current bag limit of two per season!
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Spent much of my growing up in south Alabama around the Ft. Rucker area. I can't claim the skeeters were as big as your north Alabama sub-species, but dadgum if south 'Bama ain't got the biggest rattlesnakes I've ever seen anywhere in this country. Huge sumbeeyatches, daddy shot one in the head one day, killing it and the still twitching fox squirrel it was in the process of swallowing. A farmer in the community killed one that, when draped across the tailgate of his pickup truck, the dadburn head touched the ground on one side, and the tail touched the ground on the other. Dang thing looked big around as a fire hose, gave me nightmares.

Sarge
 
kamagong said:
What's a chigger?
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little bitty red bugs that bite & leave big red welts that itch like you wouldn't beelieve, not near as big as a mosquito, they're usually not any bigger than a chihuahua back in alabama, most other places down south they're about 1/20" across, called red mites, spider mites, etc. as well. the itch usually starts about 24 hrs AFTER you've already been bit & it's way too late. luckily, it stops itching after a year or two, and you can usually cover up the scars from scratchin the little darlin's with heavy makeup. amputation of the bitten appendage is also usually cureative and many people feel like doing it themselves with a dull butter knife to stop the itchin.....

chigger: (not to scale)
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chigger bites:
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most people from outside the USA think we all run around armed 'cus we're natchurly violent and insane. if they saw all the critters thet are tryin to eat us, an' how BIG the durn things are, they'd know why & wonder why we don't all drive round in tanks with flame throwers and 25mm chain guns....

p.s. - the little red devils don't appear to like people who drink guiness, high levels of B-vitamins in it make hyoomans taste bad to chiggers (and skeeters), my ex-wife allus got bit & i never did, used to get her really mad :)
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Spent much of my growing up in south Alabama around the Ft. Rucker area. I can't claim the skeeters were as big as your north Alabama sub-species, but dadgum if south 'Bama ain't got the biggest rattlesnakes I've ever seen anywhere in this country. Huge sumbeeyatches, daddy shot one in the head one day, killing it and the still twitching fox squirrel it was in the process of swallowing. A farmer in the community killed one that, when draped across the tailgate of his pickup truck, the dadburn head touched the ground on one side, and the tail touched the ground on the other. Dang thing looked big around as a fire hose, gave me nightmares .

Sarge
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Sarge it musta been one of those 3 cylinder import pickups built around a fiesta frame . The tailgate is only 37 inches wide . I went to tie my bootlace on the tailgate and a lace touched the ground on one side and the other touched the ground on the other side .
L:O:L
 
Chiggers ate me alive one year. Oooohh. I'll never forget it.

Here's a limerick written years ago by an entomologist named H.B. Hungerford:

"The thing called a chigger,
is really no bigger,
than the smaller end of a pin,
but the bump that it raises,
just itches like blazes,
and that's where the rub sets in."

Skeeters are a pain, too, but it's the fire ants that make me wary.

But shooting snakes? C'mon, everybody knows the only honorable way to kill a snake is with a shovel. One on one. Hand to fang. :D

lol, Take care.
 
Kevin the grey said:
Sarge it musta been one of those 3 cylinder import pickups built around a fiesta frame . The tailgate is only 37 inches wide . I went to tie my bootlace on the tailgate and a lace touched the ground on one side and the other touched the ground on the other side .
L:O:L
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Half ton Chevy Kevin, bring me a bible and I'll swear on it, that sucker was huge.:D

Sarge
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Half ton Chevy...
Sarge
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The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had "covertly" funded a project with the U.S. automakers for the past 5 years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice recorders in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.
Their findings were surprising:


In 38 of the 50 states, the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Shit!"
But that wasn't the surprising part. In the the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, things were much different. There, 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin'."
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Half ton Chevy Kevin, bring me a bible and I'll swear on it, that sucker was huge.:D

Sarge
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Musta been some big bugger . Makes me wonder what they are eating .
The biggest snakes around here are 14 inches long .
 
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