Ghastly Gifts

For the serious adventurous gourmet, these tins and packets of eastern promise include smokey bacon flavour. These are not your tame chocolate covered ants type of sweet and would certainly add some interesting things to your buffet.

Be sure to check local quarantine regulations before ordering this stuff or you may find your package destroyed or get a large quarantine inspection fee in the mail. Insect products, tinned and packed from Thailand and SE Asia.

http://www.thailandunique.com/store/index.php

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These are the archetypical insect food. Nicely coated in Belgian chocolate, and understandably rich in formic acid, these samples are literally the 'Queen' of the crop. Harvested (apparently) in the jungles of Columbia, these are local delicacies.

Be sure to check quarantine and import regulations before ordering stuff like this.

http://www.edible.com/shop/browse.php?cmd=showproduct&productId=9

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Another version of a favorite snack (not). This time the salt and vinegar flavour is supposed to mask the fact that you are eating insects. They won’t be the first insect protein you’ve consumed as most ground grain will inevitably contain some amount of ground insect along with the ground. Somehow that’s no consolation when you’re faced with these little flavoursome beasties.

http://www.amazon.com/Crick-ettes-Salt-N-Vinegar/dp/B0017D070M/002-03752...

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Not a can of worms, a can of maggots. Slightly more gruesome than biting the head off a jelly snake (or jelly baby) these chocolate maggots are one way to keep your chocolate supply to yourself. They look quite appetizing and only just make it onto the GhastlyGifts yuk-o-meter. Perhaps useful for cheering up that unsuccessful fisherman in the family. No maggots were harmed in the making of this product. Make sure they label the tin carefully though.

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod/xlc_2795/White%...

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The phrase chock full of goodness springs to mind, but be careful, these are real bugs and chocolate seems the only way of making them palatable. Insects are a great source of protein but I'm afraid the yuk factor seriously out-does the nutritional advantages they have.

The world may come to it yet, but I’m not ready. Give me chocolate raisins any day.

http://www.flukerfarms.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=13

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There can be nothing worse than surprising a cockroach around the kitchen. These realistic looking candy roaches are the perfect lunchbox surprise for someone you love. The realistic looking (but thankfully fake) roaches are sure to get squeaks of surprise and horror.

http://www.candywarehouse.com/cockroachbites.html

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If you can munch on the fake stuff, you might be ready to start on some real chocolate covered insect parts. The chocolate means you'll be spared the details of exactly what you're eating, which for some may be a blessing. These products come in a giant party pack that might go down well (or not) at a leaving party or as surprise cake decorations.

http://www.candywarehouse.com/insects.html

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Great idea for ghastly but gifted kids who you want to grow up into seriously gross scientists - play food labs. Dr. Dreadful's Squeemy Snack Lab, kids conduct 20 diabolically delicious experiments making creepy, squeemy candy and sweets. Worse - they can eat everything they make!

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05280878000P?vName=Toys+%26+Gam...

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