So I’m in Portland, Maine right now, at the Inn at St. John. We’re here for the Maine Brewers Festival, which takes place tomorrow. Right now, we’re just chilling out, and resting up for the festivities tomorrow. We were too tired to go out to eat, so we went to the Pizza Villa joint across the street from the hotel, and got some pizza to take back to our room. Mike is asleep now, and I’ve been watching TV and playing around on my netbook. Free WiFi rocks!
We don’t have cable TV at home, so I mostly just get to see the Food Network when we’re staying in hotels. After Mike got to watch his Friday night PBS news shows, I flipped over to the Food Network to see what was on.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives was on. I’m telling you, if host Guy Fieri always eats the kind of stuff he eats on that show, he’s gonna make some cardiologist very rich someday! Tonight he went to these places that served ginormous burgers…I could almost feel my arteries hardening just looking at them! You could almost gain weight by just looking at this food, as well…made me want to search the web for the best weight loss pills out there!
Then some other show came from, I forget what it was called, as I wasn’t paying much attention. My ears perked up when I heard somone talk about cooking and eating bugs. I looked at the TV, and sure enough, they were showing someone cooking what looked like breaded, deep-fried crickets or grasshoppers. EEEEEUUUUUWWW!
Now, I realize that some cultures eat bugs regularly, and once, in a bookstore, I saw a bug cookbook written by some guy who taught bug cuisine as a college course. But I think I’ll pass…I get squicked out when my cats catch flies and spiders and then eat them. I appreciate them doing this, but that doesn’t mean I have to look at them while they are doing it.
I changed the channel super fast, before it got any more disgusting. I was just glasd I’d long since finished eating when that show came on!
