Patrick Is Happy He Didn't Eat This

Impaled Wildlife For Sale!

You're probably sick of pictures of take out containers at this point, aren't you? OK, maybe you aren't because no one really comes to this blog expecting to see anything but take-out containers and empty plates. Which is probably why the readership is so low.

Anyways, as a special treat, here is a picture of some actual real food. (Would scorpions-on-a-stick be considered food, or impaled wild life?)

The picture is courtesy of Patrick, a friend of mine from my university days who's currently traveling the world on sabbatical.

He recently came back from Beijing where he took pictures of the local street food. He ate some of it, but took a pass on other, more "interesting" things, like the scorpions-on-a-stick and the sea-horses-on-a-stick.

One of his students tried the scorpions and said they tasted "salty". My guess is that it was incredibly awkward to eat, somewhat revolting to think about, and the student wanted to get out of eating the rest as gracefully as possible. "These are delicious, really, but I find them a bit salty for my taste. Would you like the rest?"

I mean granted, yes, we will all need to learn to eat scorpions and crickets and cockroaches once the End Times come and there isn't anything else left to eat.  But until then, I'll stick to not eating scorpions-on-a-stick, and so will Patrick.

You have to admit that display looks really pretty, though.  It looks even more impressive when you see it move!