Eaten a live bug or insect

Not by choice. "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly... poor old lady... I think she'll die."

Call me a sicko if you wish. I've won MANY dollar large eating night crawlers after making bar bets...I'm so glad I quit drinking.

This is where I get to feel smug for being a vegetarian. :) Technically, bugs are animals and it is against my own code of ethics to eat one. ...Also, they are really disgusting and I am trying not to gag just thinking about it. I seriously am repulsed by the little bastards.

It's hard to go jogging in the heat of summer and not do it on occasion. If the insect is big enough, I try to spit it out without breaking stride, but sometimes its small, like a gnat, and there's nothing else to do but swallow and hope it dies a quick death (just the other day, I had one fly into my eye). Being humane (and squeamish), I worry sometimes that it's still alive down there in my gut, being burned torturously to death by stomach acid. When I think about eating insects (which I try to do as rarely as possible), I'm always reminded of a passage I read in "The Belly of the Beast" by Jack Henry Abbott, the long-term convict and murderer who wrote eloquently about his life experiences in prison. In solitary confinement, prisoners were given water and one slice of bread a day (if I remember right; I read the book years ago, so maybe it was 2 slices of bread). Savvy prisoners would catch whatever cockroaches or insects that inhabited the cell that they could, roll them up into th... Read more

No, I can't say that I have, and it's something that I don't plan to do in the future. I know that there are some countries that serve these as delicacies, and I know that some parts of the United States have things like chocolate covered ants as well as grasshoppers. Just watch out for all the guts and fecal matter, something I don't think a lot of people have even thought about.

How can you spot a happy cyclist? By the bugs on his teeth. Of course I have, if you can make it through a prairie summer without snacking on a few mosquitoes, then you have spent a summer indoors.

NO! And since you mentioned it; one of my more recent pet peeves are those stupid cable shows that feature morons who eat weird things like this...usually grinning and snorting like Beavis & Butthead. You'd think they were produced in jr. high school TV classes.

Ok yea, but TOTALLY on accident...... yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, but not deliberately. Back when I owned a motor cycle it took me a couple of weeks to learn to keep my mouth shut when I was riding. Bees ingested at 50MPH aren't much fun.

No, but then again, I am a wimp. I had heard somewhere that an average of three bugs a night crawl down your throat when you sleep, But this feels like an Urban Legend to me.

Only when they fly into my mouth.

It was a beautiful day and I was tooling west on my bike towards Ann Arbor. I was belting out Nights in White Satin. "And I love yooooooo...Yes I love yoooooooooooo...OOOOHHHH OOOOH OH OOOOOOOOOH!" That's when it happened. Some very large passed "Go"...didn't collect $200 and went straight down my pipe. I think it was a June Bug. But, let's face it...with the allowable levels of bug parts in our foods...we've all eaten some. Bug protein...the great equalizer...