We eat worms !
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Kasane,
Botswana
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
We drive to town: do our laundry and go to the internet cafe. The connection are very slow. Cannot send you my movies! Then: a bad thunderstorm and I mean: bad. The internet crashes every 10 minutes. After an hour, Dr T had it with that crap. He drives back to the hotel to play with his own computer. Coming back, he pick up the laundry and then me. We go shopping.
It is way afternoon, when we are back at the hotel, where we sit in the bar, having a snack and drinking beer. We discover that the local beer: St-Louis is a LIGHT beer. I do not do light beers. I am Belgian. When I let my friend Rudi know, his comment is: light beers are not made for people who love beer but for people who love to pee.
After playing some cards, we go for diner. Dr T comes back with the news there are worms on the menu. Cockroaches and worms are the only animals to freak me out. I am not fond of spiders and not thrilled by rats, but I can handle them. But not worms. I think he is teasing me and say: if there are worms, I'll eat one. And sure enough: there are worms. The look really, really, really disgusting. Hubby takes 4!!! He goes first and says: crunchy. My turn: I thought I could go bite, bite swallow but indeed they are crunchy AND chewy. I almost trow up. Dr T, of course, filmed it but luckily, it did not work in the dark. Tony has 2 more. We do not have a lot afterwards anymore, I guess we are put off. A nice desert, yes, something NOT reminding me of worms!
Comments
Turning tables
I think that Tony ate the worms to turn the tables on MArina. Usually it is Marina who will try out the food and Tony who will not - but at last it is the other way around. No wonder he wanted the video. Marina will probably be teased about the worms forever.
When MArina first met our family in Australia and did not know our customs, we thought of a joke to play on her (but didn't do it in the end). We were going to empty a can of dog food, wash out the can and refill it with meatloaf. Then casually walk past her eating straight from the can and ask her if she wanted some.
He ha :-)
-Micmic