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...shopping malls are filled with carts selling all sorts of creepy crawlies. The Thais consume around 300 tons a year, and estimates put the bug business at $50 million annually?about the same as the country's pizza business. For about 50? a bunch, the adventurous eater can snack on a variety of 20 kinds of insects (depending on the size of the bunch and who's selling it), from fried beetles to waterbugs. But the Big Mac of bugs has to be grasshoppers, which taste a bit like shrimp. Would you like fries with that? Or perhaps bamboo worms...
...ritual reminiscent of a Japanese tea ceremony. Drinkers suck the alcoholic mixture through a bamboo straw with tiny filters to keep the seeds out, and it's a never-ending affair. You sit around the fire with a thermos flask topping up the pot for hours, and snack on spiced cucumber and mutton pieces known as sekura or sukuli. The locals will assure you that tongba never leads to hangovers?but it certainly makes sleep come more quickly...
...Chechen acquaintance proposed a secret meeting with rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Rybkin says he was told that Maskhadov would meet him somewhere in Ukraine, so Rybkin left for the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Once there, he says, unknown men took him to an apartment and offered him tea and a snack while he waited. Then, Rybkin claims, he fell unconscious - for four days. He woke up in a different apartment, where his captors showed what he called a "disgusting" video of him that had been shot while he was drugged. His earlier versions of the story "did not reflect the truth...
...were they low-carb? A U.S. health-food manufacturer received a 15-month jail term for repackaging regular doughnuts as a low-fat snack. Federal investigations revealed the chocolate-glazed bun harbored 18 grams of fat and over 500 calories...
...thing, students know what other students like to eat. With a near monopoly on snack-craving Quadlings, Celeris should primarily focus on stocking the most highly demanded products. With students at the helm, expensive and undesirable refreshments—including stale, neglected gourmet gummy bears—will likely be cleared from the shelves in favor of more popular and profitable snacks...