Tag Archives: eating

Bringing The Title Back Home

July 4, 2023 – 3:49 am

In 2007 the USA failed to qualify for the finals of sailing’s most prestigious title, The America Cup, however Joey Chesnut of Potomac Falls, VA vanquished the six-time defending hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi and brought the trophy back to the States.  At the annual Fourth of July eat-off the two finalists were tied […]

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INSECTS YUM YUM by Peter Nolan Smith

May 7, 2021 – 10:48 am

Most tourists to Thailand are fascinated by the food cart selling with fried insects i.e. crickets, grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and several unidentified members of the insect species. Photos cost 10 baht. Thais revel in daring farangs to cross that culinary line in hopes of witnessing the European upchuck the crawly creature,s as if they were […]

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Insect A La Carte Cart Crash

June 22, 2012 – 12:43 am

My greatest fear in my years in Pattaya was having a motorcycle accident with a scooter sidecar selling insects. The collision would send me flying into the slop of fried fly grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and crickets. Of course Fenway’s mom as all Thais wife loves eating these exoskeletal delicacies. I don’t mind the grubs. They’re […]

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