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What bugs do they eat in Thailand?

Updated: 11/9/2022
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When I was there in 1967 - 68 at Udorn Air Force Base, Thailand, we had Native Thai workers in our Bomb Dump. During the breeding season we would light up all our search lights and the light would attract what the Thia's called a RICE BUG. They netted them with Fish Sean nets and boxed them in old ammo crates to take to the street market next day.

In US coin they got at least a nickel a single bug, fresh uncooked.

To us GI's they looked like a giant cockroach. But some of worker

strung wires over the exhaust manifolds of the generators and strung the wire through the bug and roasted them nice and crisp for immediate pleasure like us and pop corn.

Another thing the worker ate were tree nested caterpillar's. They took down the gossamer like nest and wrapped it, caterpillar's and all, into a wide green leaf. Then ate that whole thing raw like a hot dog on a bun.

S J DiNaro Jr

Msgt USAF, Ret

1954-74

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