Another beekeeping delicacy

[Sutty]

I came across this on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilled_honeycomb

Grilled brood in the comb!

 

[Cuckmere couple]

I came across this on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilled_honeycomb

Grilled brood in the comb!

looks revolting...watched a youtube video years ago of a crazy guy eating drone brood, also disgusting

 

[Anduril]

I came across this on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilled_honeycomb

Grilled brood in the comb!

I went to a lecture in Cardiff last month, Cardiff Beekeepers. Professor Robert Pickard gave a talk about bees around the world. Bee larvae are as nutritious as beef.

 

[Wilco]

Insect protein...

 

[Nannysbees]

Yuck!!!!!

 

[Garry R]

When you are hungry the only difference between bee and beef is there is no "f" in bee!

 

[Anduril]

When you are hungry the only difference between bee and beef is there is no "f" in bee!

The EU has now given the green light to the use of mealworm in powder form going into our food chain with no marking of the ingredients on their packaging (4g of mealworms in 100g of food). So due to the chitin content of bee brood and mealworm there is the potential for increased sensitivity to these products, asthma being one of them, we may see an increase in hospitalisation. Whatever we eat there is always a potential for allergic reactions. The only way to avoid these products would be to go organic.

 

[Sutty]

The EU has now given the green light to the use of mealworm in powder form going into our food chain with no marking of the ingredients on their packaging (4g of mealworms in 100g of food). So due to the chitin content of bee brood and mealworm there is the potential for increased sensitivity to these products, asthma being one of them, we may see an increase in hospitalisation. Whatever we eat there is always a potential for allergic reactions. The only way to avoid these products would be to go organic.

Ironically organic products, as they don't use pesticides, might be more likely to have the occasional accidental insect included!

 

[North End Bees]

looks revolting...watched a youtube video years ago of a crazy guy eating drone brood, also disgusting

Yeah disgusting.
Like braised liver and kidneys and any other parts of an animal are disgusting.
What's the difference?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

what if it's technically 'outside' the animal? my grandmother often used to fry us up a supper of Cerrig hwrdod - sliced, soaked in brine overnight, patted dry then dipped in flour and fried until a golden brown and just eaten with fresh bread and butter
Food of the gods

 

[Sutty]

what if it's technically 'outside' the animal? my grandmother often used to fry us up a supper of Cerrig hwrdod - sliced, soaked in brine overnight, patted dry then dipped in flour and fried until a golden brown and just eaten with fresh bread and butter
Food of the gods

What is that?
Google translate said "stones of pride", times may have been hard but I hope you didn't have to eat rocks!

 

[Anduril]

Sweetbreads, tripe, chitlins, giblets trotters, pork cheek, tongue, heart. Still sold in Cardiff Central market. My parents and grandparents used to talk about it.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What is that?

Bollocks
Literally translated cerrig means stones, but colloquially it refers to testicles
Hwrddod = rams

So ram's bollocks to you saeson

They are also known as sweetbreads in our area

 

[Cuckmere couple]

Yeah disgusting.
Like braised liver and kidneys and any other parts of an animal are disgusting.
What's the difference?

yup....agree...familiarity for me...have eaten a lot of flying ants and grasshoppers, which can be quite fatty and think drone brood would be similar...just dont fancy it given my dealings with drone brood

cop out

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

have eaten a lot of flying ants and grasshoppers,

tried wearing a mask whilst out cycling?

 

[Cuckmere couple]

tried wearing a mask whilst out cycling?

lol

6 years as a kid in a Uganda where these are staples and instead of sweets....and a few years as a grown up kid since doing the same

but, leave me starving alone with only drone brood to eat and i think the drone brood would not survive!

 

[Sutty]

I guess the brood is hard to get out of the comb (would a tangential extractor do it?), the wax has minimal nutritional value as nearly all of it gets passed unchanged.

 

[Newbeeneil]

what if it's technically 'outside' the animal? my grandmother often used to fry us up a supper of Cerrig hwrdod - sliced, soaked in brine overnight, patted dry then dipped in flour and fried until a golden brown and just eaten with fresh bread and butter
Food of the gods

Mmmmmmm yummy

 

[Sutty]

All these "odd" foods are just a matter of convention and culture or experience.
I do remember working in a parisian company one summer as a student and enjoying a pie in the canteen, though it was a bit rich. Once I'd had enough I lifted to crust to find the filling was brains (calves brains I think), at that point I really didn't want any more!

 

[JamezF]

All these "odd" foods are just a matter of convention and culture or experience.
I do remember working in a parisian company one summer as a student and enjoying a pie in the canteen, though it was a bit rich. Once I'd had enough I lifted to crust to find the filling was brains (calves brains I think), at that point I really didn't want any more!

It's odd though that some of these things used to be eaten quite commonly in the UK, even relatively recently. I remember eating sliced tongue as a child (in the 1970s) for instance. I'd not be surprised if most people didn't turn up their noses at it these days.

James