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[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

[-] potoo22@programming.dev 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Human anteaters live among us and they look just like any other human.

If you eat one ant, you are an anteater. You may not even have consciously have eaten one. It could have been hidden in your sandwich or mixed in with a soup. You may be an anteater and not even known it ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Ants georg is an outlier and should not be counted.

[-] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I haven't had ants, specifically, but I have eaten termites. Can I join anteater club?

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Itโ€™s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too.

There's a traditional dish using ant butts some ~500km down north from where I live. Video related - ant butts, yucca meal, garlic, bacon, onion.

I personally never tasted it, but I'm mildly curious about it.

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