So five minutes ago.
I’ve been hungry, a time or two. I’ve eaten armadillo, rabbit and snake when they wasn’t no other food to be had.
I never got that hungry.
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Snake Eating?By lex, on February 10th, 2010
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My Cobra Gold experience was sooo very different…but that’s a story for another time!
Glad I stayed aboard ship except for liberty call at Pattaya Beach. Of course, you could find most of the same items for sale by the street vendors.
Seriously good photos there. Pretty tough folks. Who knew you didn’t have to be crazy to catch a Cobra by its tail?
Those kids are WAY more adventurous than I am.
Subsunk
Anyone remember the crocodile pit in front of Pauline’s in Olongapo? Guys’d buy baby ducks to toss to the critters, but it wasn’t unknown for Marines visiting from other southeast Asian locations to bite they little heads off before the toss.
At least they roasted the Lizards and Scorpions first, It would have been hard to keep them down if they were still trying to escape! God love them, they do all this for us back here so that we don’t have to.
BT: Jimmy T sends.
Looks like a typical USMC staged photo op to me…that said whats the problem with scorpion?… think jumbo shrimp… a quick toast over the fire strip the tail and down the hatch the little bugger goes, chased, of course, by dram or two of rice paddy water..an excellent repast indeed…of course it helps mightly if you’re out of your flippen mind with hunger and thirst. Best
Oh, gosh, eeewww. Could you please explain to me why it’s necessary to eat these icky things? Surely, one could go on a vegetarian diet for a short time, rather than eat these for any reason.
But I’m very grateful, if for some crazy reason the military command feels it has to be done, that these darling persons are doing it for me so that I won’t have to.
Marianne
Well, it does sorta look like a crawfish…I’d have to have a dab of McIllenys first.
hair’s kinda long for a Marine…. are we sure that wasn’t the Corpseman?
Marianne,
It’d done so that you know you can do it when you really, really have to.
And yeah, I’m sure there’s some of the frat boy “look at what gross thing I’ll eat” in there as well. Boys are boys after all.
Protein is protein. And boiling or roasting them really helps. IIRC from our AOCS survival training at Eglin AFB, maggots popped like popcorn when you boiled them…
Not only that, Yak, but they’re great for eating the dead flesh from open wounds–best nature-made micro-surgeons going, as well as ready-made (and mucho-plentiful) food supply. But then you knew that…but do the wimmin’-folk? Maybe they could suggest ‘mo bettah’ recipes…..
Next thing you know VX will be advocating bloodletting leeches.
BTW: Good news Virgil:The Tribune reports that Barbancourt will back in operation in a few months. Have you tried soaking the ground with it?
Funny you should mention leeches, Wilco, thanks for reminding me. The latest trend in hand surgery, for example, when re-attaching fingers,etc., is to use/attach leeches on the post-surgery finger-tip to relieve blood pressure/swelling which results from the operation and can threaten it’s successful outcome. Turns out they do it far better with almost no negative side effects unlike the artificial measures previously used.
Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) @ http://www.medicaledu.com/maggots.htm
http://bit.ly/cyUQsx
I’ve been surprised over the years at how many times the medical use of maggots have been mentioned in a lot of books I’ve read. Quite common.
YouTube has a number of videos showing the process.
I read about a Wehrmacht MD, who when she was posted to the Eastern Front, was looking at some soldaten just brought in from the evac train, who were covered with bloody bandages, who told her, ” Do not worry Frau Doktor, we’ll be OK, we have maggots”.
You’d never see that fainting Marine on a USMC or mil website.
Yeah, LCpl Barker is going to have a hard time living *that* one down…
“…eaten armadillo, rabbit and snake..”
Hey, sounds like survival training during initial stages of flight school in Pensacola before heading off to Saufley! Wait, the rabbit was in SERE. But we did get an armadillo, a raccoon, a coupla turtles and a fish in the flight school survival training. Spread that out amongst 40 or 5o people and everyone gets a bite and a half!
Some day ask me the details of how they were caught…. color, very colorful….
George V.
What’s wrong with Rabbit? Hassenpfeffer is pretty good stuff.
Never said there was anything wrong with rabbit. That couple of tablespoons of rabbit stew, complete with a few milligrams of meat, was wonderful on the third afternoon of SERE, after but a small bite of crab the first night, caught fresh on the breakwater at Coronado. Good times to reflect on, wouldn’t want to do it again!
George V.
Jeez! What a bunch of little girls. That is one mighty meaty looking scorpion. Look at those claws!
True, I prefer my arachnids cooked, preferably well done. But that doesn’t mean that scorpion tartare is entirely off the menu.
When I was foraging for food during starvival training at AOCS, or later at SERE, I considered myself fortunate for growing up in a largely Chinese neighborhood and having eaten all sorts of bottom-feeding invertabrates on several occasions.
This is actually pretty much a rite of passage coordinated by the Thai marines. Drinking snake (Cobra) blood is also not unheard off. What is that saying….When in Rome….
Makes for good memories for the guys, otherwise it would just be another field exercise interspersed with the best liberty ever.
The Marine in photo 9 is having serious doubts about the whole affair.
How many calories in a little scorpion? Not sure it’s worth the risk of getting bit by one to eat one.
I’ve eaten my fair share of snakes on survival courses all over the world. They’re surprisingly tasty and full of protein.
I guess Dr. Atkins would be proud!