Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 20, 2013

A pound of bugs and a bushel of dirt, granny used to say. Don’t disparage raisins, Dill. They’re good for you (as granny also said).

I remember those little bugs in the Oatmeal and flour, they tasted like oatmeal or flour…protein for the day….yum yum

This is the time of year that little moths come out of the rice hopper and cereal boxes.

Sometimes they hide them in the bottom of a McDonald’s French Fry container.

I once ate half a bag of trail mix before I noticed little white maggots wriggling on my fingers.

And then there are those who serve their bugs dipped in chocolate.

A frequent contributor had nearly the identical comment last year as 5 years ago, but, so far, nothing today.

My step mom’s brothers told her when she was little that raisins were actually dried flies. To her dying day, she never ate raisins again.

Bar-b-q grasshoppers

Bugs are full of protein.

My Dad’s saying was that you had to eat a peck of dirt before you die.

I have a sister who swears our oldest sister served her flies in the cream of mushroom soup…

Sorry about that.