I am imagining an odd conversation that goes like this:
So what does your grandpa do for a living? Is he retired?
No, he's a wasp hunter.
A what?
A wasp hunter. He hunts wasps in Omachi, Japan. They're used in rice crackers.
Rice crackers?!?
The thing is, this conversation could actually happen. In Omachi, Japan — 120 miles northwest of Tokyo — rice cracker makers have created a new product by adding wasps to the recipe. The wasps are hunted by elderly folks from the village and are caught in nearby forests. But before they are put into crackers, they are boiled, dried and then added to the mix.
Source: Neatorama
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Oh no - I just got sick!
1Wow, with the wings and everything. Interesting.
2ummm ewww
3Worst nightmare...In a cookie...
4Ew....are they supposed to be part of the healthfood craze or are they put into cookies for their flavor? I just can't imagine that they are tasty. What about their stingers? Yuck. I just lost my snack appetite that was steadily building.
5ewww... gross! To both the cracker and that person's nails!
6mellie_608 - Seriously, it was the nails that did it for me! I'd eat the cracker, but those nails, ugh.
7Okay, I'm gonna go throw-up right now
8I know! That was the first thing I noticed! Even before the wasps!
9Total sickness...;(
10ok that guy needs to clean his nails.
11and the bug cookiecrackers ****PUKE****
Nasty. Ugh.
12oh gross! I think I'm gonna be sick...
13I'm not surprised... I've seen bugs and worms in lollipops at the candy store before, and it's not like it's in another country. It was in an American candy store.
14i was grossed out when i saw this yesterday on neatorama
15So what do you have with them? Milk with flies in it... yak!
16And.... why???
17No thanks.
18Ummm wow...I don't if i will eat it..Although i did try grasshoppers in Oaxaca.
19OMG No way. I don't do bugs. Besides ... I'm allergic.
20yummie , wonder what it tastes like
21GROSS!!!
22That's disgusting........
23GROSS! i'm all about being open-minded, but this is just too much 4 me!!! i would SOOO never make it in the eating portion of 'fear factor' etc...i'm such a WUSS at eating crazy things, seriously!
24uhm....yeah i don't think i could eat that
25That is just gross ahhh, why would anyone think of making things like that?
26Freaking sick.
27nasty nasty nasty!!!
28No Freaking Way! Very Nasty!! What is the nutritional value in eating a boiled dried up WASP in a rice cracker?
29Just Say No!
30not.
31i think i just threw up
32The whole bugs in food thing has gone to far, there just isnt any need except for shock factor. tis nasty
33No need to go into the forests. I have a wasp nest in my backyard if any of those wasp hunters want it.
34ewwwwwwww!!
35UGH
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