Challenge No.32 – I’m a Nobody Get Me Out of Here
Location – Thailand
On the Kho San Road, Bangkok, the market traders sell cooked insects to eat. We’ll be challenging each other to eat five large insects. Beasties can’t be smaller than one inch in length.
Location – Thailand
On the Kho San Road, Bangkok, the market traders sell cooked insects to eat. We’ll be challenging each other to eat five large insects. Beasties can’t be smaller than one inch in length.
February 20th 2008
Tonight we had a dinner with a difference. We went to a local food stall at the side of a road and sampled the offerings. I’m a Nobody Get Me Out Of Here Challenge had come round and we both looked on, sick to our stomach’s, with fear and revulsion. Our worst nightmare had arrived.
There, before us, lay dinosaur-like insects that had been deep fried. Now, us Scottish like pretty much anything deep fried - Mars Bars, Pizza, Ice-Cream, Banana's etc... but certainly not these things; When insects fly at us we either, bat them with our hands (as a total last resort - if a huge newspaper isn't nearby) as far as possible, scream, run or mostly a combination of all three. We don't like seeing them, never mind having to touch them and certainly not having to see them, grab them and stick them in our mouths.
Tonight we had a dinner with a difference. We went to a local food stall at the side of a road and sampled the offerings. I’m a Nobody Get Me Out Of Here Challenge had come round and we both looked on, sick to our stomach’s, with fear and revulsion. Our worst nightmare had arrived.
There, before us, lay dinosaur-like insects that had been deep fried. Now, us Scottish like pretty much anything deep fried - Mars Bars, Pizza, Ice-Cream, Banana's etc... but certainly not these things; When insects fly at us we either, bat them with our hands (as a total last resort - if a huge newspaper isn't nearby) as far as possible, scream, run or mostly a combination of all three. We don't like seeing them, never mind having to touch them and certainly not having to see them, grab them and stick them in our mouths.
We selected various amounts of creatures and we started to eat, mmmmmm yummy! Only the Silk Worms didn’t taste bad (bad being used in the loosest term.) They tasted a bit crispy, but nothing really - perhaps, to best describe them, a bit airy. The others just got worse and worse. We started with the small things and kept the delicious bigger things for last. Each mouthful nearly induced a vomiting episode from each of us. Some bugs exploded with juice, others were hard to bite but all were horrible. It was near impossible to get your brain to allow your throat to swallow them.
The last two items were the worst. Second from desert was a Scorpion. Yes a big black and spikey Scorpion. The tail was removed for us by the chef (the word chef used loosely too) and so too were the pincers and all we needed to do now was chew, chew, chew. We do not recommend that anybody volunteers for this. Again this is pointless and certainly no fun was being had by anyone - us, Mark (who in an evil-like way smiled throughout the entirity of the filming) the onlookers and the stall owner - who was now very annoyed with us deterring business from her only means of earning a living.
And so to the creme de la creme, a beautiful, succulent, divine piece of meat. The giant cockroach. All we will say is that we both attempted this with each of us suffering huge gagging fits and one having a bit more success than the other.
Challenge completed, thank the heavens and again, like 76.42% of the idiotic things we're doing - please don’t try this at home - it's stupid. There is no need for man, or woman and anything in between other than birds and lizards to ever have to resort to eating beasties. Even if you were unfortunate enough to find yourself stranded on a deserted island after miraculously surviving a plane crash - eat your arm - it's probably easier to stomach.