Never trust a freak bearing gifts.....

[vernon]

There I was, at Knockengorroch, sitting by an open fire trying to recall the last non alcoholic drink to have passed my lips when I was offered some food that I'd witness being prepared and cooked by an outrageously dressed chef on the fire and passed around the folk keeping warm by the fire.

I took a digestive biscuit sized piece, bit half of it off and chewed and savoured it. When asked about its flavour I pronounced that the garlic was a tad strong and a few herbs would not go amiss much to the delight of the chef. I thought that I'd been eating a form of black pudding.

I was almost right, the blood content was probably the same but I'd been eating midge burger made from the corpses of the Caledonian Luftwaffe extracted from a propane powered midge trap.

I quietly disposed of the other half and rinsed the remnants of the first bite down with several glugs of homemade chilli vodka.

I suppose it was a form of recycling.....

I used to feel part of the crowd and now it's part of me.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'd have eaten it all, extra nutrition and all that. Anyway, 'Caledonian Luftwaffe', I'll need to remember that one, thanks!












I obviously don't get out enough.

 

[Arch]

So, it was quite nice, and you enjoyed it, until you knew what it was? I'd have thought you were more sensible than that. Shame to waste the other half.

 

[Globalti]

I've swallowed enough of the little bastards over a lifetime of camping and climbing in Scotland not to want any more, thanks.

 

[vernon]

So, it was quite nice, and you enjoyed it, until you knew what it was? I'd have thought you were more sensible than that. Shame to waste the other half.

I used 'savoured' in the loosest possible sense of the word.

Sensible?

Me?

I'm offended

 

[mickle]

The tribesfolk who live on the banks of lake victoria make a similar culinary delight. Probably where they got the idea.

 

[Cubist]

Protein is a precious commodity.

 

[Red Light]

I normally eat midge tartare, harvested baleen whale style as I cycle along with my mouth open. Cooked would make a nice change.

 

[vernon]

Protein is can be a precious commodity.

FTFY

 

[Red Light]

Protein is a precious commodity.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I once had one of those lollies with a Cricket inside. It was nice and I had always meant to get another one if I could.

 

[biggs682]

mmm lovelly

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

mmm lovelly

'Twas actually.

 

[soulful dog]

Do they still cause you to feel itchy even when they are dead and minced into a burger?

 

[vernon]

Do they still cause you to feel itchy even when they are dead and minced into a burger?

Nope.

They were gazzillions of them on Friday night. Far too many to risk wearing a kilt without a full wetsuit as underwear. Avon Skin So Soft worked a treat. It was unnerving walking through thick clouds of them on the way to the stages from the car park and relying on a feminine post-shower moisturising spray as the defence against bites. Only three or four bites on the sparayed areas - head, neck and throat and a host of bites where the gits got me when I had to use a portaloo and exposed unsprayed flesh. Must remind myself to carry a bottle with me at all times at Knockengorroch.