sand fleas

[BOVER]

Anyone know if sand fleas (the shelled things that burrow in the sand at the beach) are edible? If so, is there a practical way to eat them?

 

[Stormbringer]

Having grown up at the shore, I actually knew a friend of the family that ate those things. He had gone through Air Force survival training and used it as a trick to keep the kids at the beach busy. He'd send the kids out on a hunt, they'd come back with what they could find, and he'd just pop them straight in his mouth and chewed them. He didn't die or get sick, so they must be edible.:barf: