• Tikiporch
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    2 months ago

    Plus very nutritious, as part of a balanced diet of the dozen or so bugs you eat in your sleep every year.

    ^(don’t worry, this is a myth)

    • starik@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      It’s a myth on a technicality, because it doesn’t count as “eating” them if they crawl down your esophagus without you actively swallowing them.

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        2 months ago

        It also doesn’t count as eating if they crawl into your sinuses and lay eggs.

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      You can eat roly polys. Did you know that roly polys are over 300 million years old?

      You have to fry them first though, because otherwise they are toxic. But they are perfectly edible!