Chapter 237 The Taste of Lepidopteran Insect Larvae
"Run faster! In the last 10 kilometers, we can enter camp tonight!"
Tong Zhi stood on the roadside, shouting at each row of soldiers who ran past him.
"Remind you, a big meal has been prepared at the meeting point tonight. Eat your fill and then enter the camp. You will definitely have an unforgettable night tonight."
Before, Li Zheng would have been really excited.
But now no one is a naive recruit, and no one believes Tong Zhi's words.
It would be fine if I didn't say it, but if I did, everyone would be even more frightened.
But when you are in the special forces, never believe what your squad leader says about "comfort" and "feast". As the saying goes - if you believe you even 10%, the dove will be transformed!
The extreme exhaustion made him feel irritable, and Li Zheng couldn't help but curse all kinds of things in his mind. If it weren't for the spirit of unwillingness to admit defeat, he would have chosen to sit on the ground and apply to withdraw from the containment team.
After two consecutive days of forced march and assault, and a whole night of cold-resistant training and soaking in water for several hours, Li Zheng felt that he was already very good at not being trained to the point of schizophrenia.
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However, when he arrived at the meeting point to pick up food that night, he almost collapsed.
One of the first soldiers to arrive.
Also arriving with him were Fatty Wei and Zhang Jian.
These three are the most physically fit group in the company.
At this speed, although they are not the first to arrive, they can still get the food.
When they arrived, they saw several people standing in front of the long table where food was placed at the assembly point. At first glance, they were all scouts transferred from the old E Division reconnaissance battalion, and most of them were second-year veterans.
Several scouts stood dumbly in front of the table. Li Zheng felt that something was wrong as soon as he saw this situation.
Something must have happened.
Without bothering to catch their breath, the three of them ran to the table and squeezed in to take a look.
Fatty Wei immediately screamed in surprise when he saw what was in the prepared basin.
"Oh my god! What the hell is this!"
After all, Zhang Jian is the queen of the general family, and the most important thing he usually pays attention to is his temperament.
The temperament of a big boy.
What is the temperament of a big boy?
When others are startled, you must remain calm.
You cannot lose your identity like other comrades who have never seen the big scene.
But when he saw what was in the basin, goosebumps rose all over his body. He was so frightened that he even took a few steps back and felt his teeth chattering.
"Fuck, don't tell me to eat this tonight!"
Even Li Zheng, who had always been relatively calm, was so shocked that his hair stood up when he saw the food in the basin.
The war preparation basins were not filled with ordinary hot food - in fact, Li Zheng had already guessed that there would not be such simple and delicious hot food.
Usually lunch at noon will be normal, but in the evening it will start to be abnormal.
On the first night, we ate raw chicken, snake, fish, etc.
But after all, it is common meat, it is just uncooked. As long as you can get through your own psychological barrier, it is not difficult to eat it.
But the ones in the basin tonight are not those poultry, or even reptiles.
It's an insect!
That’s right!
insect!
Strictly speaking, the scientific name belongs to the order Lepidoptera.
And they are not adults, but larvae.
Okay, the scientific name is hard to understand
Let’s talk about the common name. When I was a kid, I loved to catch and scare girls. Caterpillars would make people shy away from them!
That’s right!
It’s the kind of caterpillar whose body is covered with long hairs. Most of the burrs are toxic and can cause allergic itching when in contact with the skin!
eat caterpillars
Fatty Wei felt that he couldn't accept it.
It's not like he's never eaten insects before.
These days, rich people are curious about novelties. They are used to eating abalone and lobster, and they also like to find some strange things to eat to satisfy their appetite.
He had eaten field feasts, including bamboo worms, sand worms, firewood worms, silkworm pupae, butterfly pupae, locusts, bee pupae and even ant eggs.
But after all, it is processed, fried and cooked with seasonings, so the taste is of course different.
With such a ferocious and alive caterpillar, Fatty Wei felt that his outlook on life was about to collapse.
Is this for human consumption?
"Monitor, are you kidding me? You are telling us not to eat at night, right?"
He couldn't help complaining to Zhang Fei, the cooking squad leader.
Zhang Fei spread his hands, but he was actually in a dilemma.
He didn't arrange this, he just carried out the order.
It was not easy to get so many caterpillars. He didn't know where to buy them, but the instructors knew.
If you go to that nearby village and look for someone, they will be there.
He went and asked, and it was true.
It can be seen that these instructors must have bought it, no, they must have eaten it.
Since everyone has eaten it, it can be seen that this stuff is not poisonous to death, so I can only buy it with my nose pinched.
Zhang Fei is not a soldier of the special forces, he is the former cooking squad leader of the fourth company of the Zhengerbajing Lao E Division.
Not to mention that Fatty Wei's outlook has been refreshed, he has also learned a lot in the past two days.
When the Special Forces Brigade was first reorganized, Zhang Fei was quite excited.
I feel that although I am a cook, I am still a cook in the special operations brigade.
From now on, when you go out and talk to people, your small breasts can be so tall that they ask you where you serve.
At least I can say arrogantly: "I'm in the special forces!"
Hey!
Now when I look at it, I can see that this special force is not only specially trained, but also specially fed.
Forget about eating raw meat.
I actually arranged to eat bugs today.
Forget about eating bugs.
You said eating cicada pupae and wasp pupae is considered an insect.
But you eat caterpillars!
"Don't be surprised when I tell you. I am acting under orders. You can eat or not as you please. Don't force yourself." Zhang Fei said, "Anyway, I can tell you that I won't eat."
The instructor on duty came over and saw that everyone was standing there, only daring to look and not take action, so he said: "Why are you so scared? This thing is high in protein and really edible! Bugs are gifts from nature, and they are what our special forces use when they are in desperate situations."
Life-saving straw, don’t look down on them! For example, barley bugs in the wild have a paint smell. If you swallow them directly, the smell will always reverberate in your mouth, so you have to remove their intestines before eating, because
Barley bugs are omnivorous, and their internal organs are not safe or unsafe. Grape hornworm larvae, for example, eat plants, and their aftertaste smell is that of turf, which is relatively easy to tolerate. The taste is a bit like a burst egg, and the taste is very bland, so there is no need to remove it.
Internal organs. There are also mantises. The internal organs of mantises are sour and taste like orange peels pounded into a lake. Ants can also eat them. If the body is pinched off, a big belly and butt are left. It tastes sour and nutritious. It is bitter.
Most herbivorous insects can be eaten by adding acid. The taste is bland, and some have an aftertaste, depending on the species. For the caterpillar in front of you, you can take it, scrape off its burrs, wash it, remove its internal organs, and cut it off.
Wash the mouthparts and excretory organs at both ends and put them in your mouth to chew. They are very chewy! If there is a fire, add some chili pepper and fry them, it will be more delicious..."
The more he talked, the more excited he became. Then he directly picked up a caterpillar and started to demonstrate on the spot. He skillfully shaved off the hair, washed it, disemboweled it, threw it into his mouth and started chewing it.
"vomit--"
The soldiers at the table finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned around, stumbled out a few meters away, bent down and started vomiting yellow bile...