Restaurant and Food Blog May Archive

Every Restaurant is All You Can Eat, But Be Reasonable

By Brian White at 05/28/07 09:20

I had a favorite buffet haunt in my younger life, and went back recently. It was nice enough, but I felt this perpetual compulsion to gorge myself. Why wouldn't I make myself sick, it's all the same price, right?

I hit up Old Country Buffet last month and watched a guy puke himself inside-out at the exit. That's terrifying, what's that all about? He didn't seem sick at all, but like a long-dead goldfish, he gorged himself unto failure and the busboys had to mop up that nasty puddle of human bile.

The smart eater knows better. Pull your head out of your gullet and get back to reality. Every restaurant is "all you can eat", all you have to do is buy your meal and eat it. There's no need to make an ass of yourself, or a sick ass at that. Just recognize reasonable bounds of human limitation, atop that the fact we're all human and our bowels can hold a finite limit, no matter how chubby at that.

Dinner in Costa Rica... opps.. I mean... Costa Rica Insects..

Leaf Eating Ants in Costa Rica

After living in Costa Rica a while you start to realize that all the food is pretty bland and cooked so much that you really can't tell what it is.

Now I read in a blog about some guy that finally went after his insects with some super toxic bug killers. A pitty when you read so much about ecotourism in Costa Rica. Back to the topic at hand... food and Costa Rica.

I think there are some great ways to spice up your meals in some delicious and nutritious ways. My first suggestion would be a leaf eating ant salad.

Here you see a photo a leaf eating ant, carrying a chunk of plant leaf larger than itself away. Can you image a salad of these. You can just pull them off any large tree near by. You'll get plenty of greens and some extra protein from the ants themselves.

Be extremely careful not to try this near any poisonious plants, or where someone has been using the toxic bug killers.

A few large leafing eat ant green salads every day should help keep the annoying ant population down and provide you with an tasty meal. If you eat them life, the ants crawling in your mouth should be a great change from the usual bland mixture of rice and beans without any salt or other spices.

Crunchy and great flavor too!

Maybe you can offer your suggestions for other insect meals in Costa Rica here...