Wasp Cookie

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Food & Drink on Sep 10, 2007 at 3:31 am

Food makers in Japan came up with a new product that will surely create a buzz in the marketplace: the jibachi senbei, or the digger wasp rice cracker.

Wasp hunters from the village, who are mostly in their 80′s, catch them in nearby forests.

They are then boiled in water, dried and sprinkled over the cracker mix, which is then stamped by hot iron cracker cutters.

A bag of 20 crackers costs £1.60, but output is limited as the wasps are caught in the wild for optimum flavour.

Yum! Link | Pic at Arbroath – via Scribal Terror


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  1. Ant
    Sep 10th, 2007 at 4:27 am

    Doesn’t stings still hurt?

  2. fluff
    Sep 10th, 2007 at 8:08 am

    oh my god… I couldn’t even touch that cookie…

  3. Stefanie
    Sep 10th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Something would have to be terribly, terribly wrong with a person to make them want to eat that. That’s awful!

  4. billy
    Sep 10th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    insects : food of the future….whether we like it or not ;)

  5. cb
    Sep 10th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    “Mm, this is great! How do you make the crust so fizzy?”

  6. harry
    Jan 8th, 2009 at 6:41 am

    yuck, I’ll stick to the Japanese jellyfish cookies instead
    http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/jellyfish-cookies-from-japan/


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