Every now and then @juliette discuss something, usually about a life experience, where she gasps as I'm about halfway into my question.

[astridpoot@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn @juliette I do remember the game of sticking your hand in the ant pile the longest?

[astridpoot@mastodon.social]

@juliette @Pepijn i also remember accidently sitting on an ant pile. wearing shorts! the horror, ik think i was about 7yo

[loooptools@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn @juliette This question is unclear! Are we talking live ants (which I assumed), then no!
If prepared by a chef, then also no. But have eaten quite a few!

[hans_zelf@mas.to]

@astridpoot @juliette @Pepijn So in fact the ants ate you.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@astridpoot Ai! That must've been a miserable experience!

Reminds me how 8, 9 or 10 year old me once picked up an interesting looking very round stone that got stuck in a tree.
And ended up holding a wasp nest. I think I got some kind of anti-swelling-injection at the doctor.

@juliette

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@looopTools Oh sorry. I assumed the context would be clear.

Living ants indeed.

I assume that when you cook them the formic acid disappears?

@juliette

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@kas I *think* the formic acid (that in most species causes the sensation) is destroyed when you roast them.

Might want to try a couple living ones to compare.

[kas@social.magnetic-ink.dk]

@Pepijn I think I'll pass, I've stopped eating animals. But you may be right about the formic acid.

[geeeero@mastodon.social]

@ReneDamkot @Pepijn @juliette

[mcnknopp@wien.rocks]

@Pepijn @juliette Is @futurebird involved in this vote?

[fgraver@hcommons.social]

@Pepijn @juliette Uuuuum. Say what, now?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@Pepijn @juliette

disgraceful

[gufferdk@ohai.social]

@Pepijn @juliette Lasius fuliginosus (Jet Ants in English, Orangemyrer in Danish) taste of citrus. I ate a couple when this was pointed out by a nature guide when I was young; this is the only time I have eaten ants, live or dead. I suppose citrus-y (IIRC it was closest to orange) could be tingling-like to some extent, hence the "more nuanced" vote.

[jappel@wandering.shop]

@juliette @Pepijn No. But I have crawled onto a Texas red ant nest while in the Army (it was during an exercise and we were infiltrating a position). What I remember 40 years later is rolling around on the ground trying not to yell or curse while my buddies poured water on my to try and get the ants off.

[loooptools@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn @juliette At least I have eaten over 500grams and not felt a thing XD

[sleepytako@famichiki.jp]

@Pepijn @juliette no. But I have thrown up due to inhaling a ton of very, very small mosquitos.