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Check Out ‘USDA Approved’ Jungle George’s Maggot Sandwiches!

You’ve brought the family to the State Fair and after a long day of bouncing from booth to booth in the hot sun, there is nothing like a freshly-grilled Maggot Sandwich to refuel your system and silence hunger pangs.

The Maggot Sandwich is not something served to castaways on “Survivor.“ The combination of grilled maggots on a bun are the invention of food cart owner ”Jungle“ George Sandefur of ”Jungle George’s Exotic Meats & Bugs.”

This past weekend, George brought his culinary delights to Pueblo, Colorado. The Associated Press was on the scene to cover the story AND sample the freshly grilled treats.

Maggots… Yum yum, give me some!

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  • fatjack
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:03pm

    ‘USDA Approved’ sounds bout right. Yet the Feds busted down the doors of a health food store in Calif and raided a Amish dairy.

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  • Jon-tribeofbeck
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:57pm

    I really think this falls under the category of ” non-issue ” may be gross but bugs and bug larve are eaten all over the world

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  • subsailor
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:47pm

    Strictly speaking these are NOT maggots. These are beetle larvae. My dad used to raise these for fish bait. (They work great by the way.)
    you can find these in novelty candy lolipops. Baked or deep fried these make an excellent source of protein, and they are grown under very clean conditions.
    We used to breed them in corn meal.
    I have eaten them before in the chocolate covered form, and they are not bad. Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside! YUM!!!

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    • ECEGeorgia
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:34pm

      Absolutly correct on being larvae! Maggots are fly larvae! Pretty good fried. A whole heck of a lot tastier than dry dog food! In a past life I was an entomologist!

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    • Peacemaker 47
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Flies are almost 100% protein. When I was in the survival portion of flight school in the Army, a survival instructor stood before us holding a pound of flies and a pound of steak in the other hand. He instructed us that if we had these two items, to throw the steak away and eat the flies because they contain more protein. I immediately raised my hand and asked if we had these two things, could we eat the steak also instead of throwing it away. I ended up doing push-ups! Insects could become the healthy food of the future.

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:46pm

    The Earl of Sandwich just rolled over.

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  • BruceyBanner
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Good for them! If these people market properly, we may see a new food industry pop up.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:17pm

    Come on now, y’all have eaten it before, it’s called McDonalds :)

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  • Living2Bworthy
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:06pm

    And we can’t buy raw milk products without our Federal Family breathing down our necks … especially across state lines??????

    What is good will be called evil and what is evil will be called good.

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:27pm

      Oh please, this isn’t even remotely the same. You make yourself look really dumb by trying to equate the two. Raw milk poses a very real threat to people’s health. Maggots may seem gross, but assuming that they are cleaned and cooked there is nothing to worry about.

      Raw maggots, on the other hand, would be a completely different story. If THAT is what he was serving, then your comparison would be valid, as you would be comparing one uncooked, pathogen-carrying product to another.

      Sheesh….

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:20pm

      @Doctor Nordo

      Too bad you don’t see the irony in this…………..
      The Feds tell us that milk is bad, beef is bad, hay to feed the beef is bad, pork is bad, grow crops for transportation fuel instead of food, unreasonable restrictions on food producers like farmers that forces some out of business.
      Now the Feds say, “you can eat bugs”?

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:43pm

      @Rational Man

      There is no irony here. The USDA says that LOTS of stuff is bad for you. It doesn’t make the stuff illegal. All it means when something is USDA-Approved is that it’s not going to a) outright slay you, b) pose a high risk of giving you a disease. Eating grilled maggots poses neither of those risks.

      Honestly, insects are extremely nutritious. They just get a bad rap because they are ugly. But seriously here, they aren’t any grosser than a cow or a pig that spends its whole life walking around in (and eating food contaminated by) its own excrement; or a chicken that EATS its own excrement.

      Again, raw milk:grilled fly larvae = Apples:Oranges

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:57pm

      Mixed up FDA and USDA, but the fact still remains that there is nothing wrong with eating bugs. They are healthy, high protein, and low fat. They‘re like nature’s cookies!

      I am not personally a bug-eater, but find nothing wrong with the practice.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:36pm

      Doc N…I have drank more gallons of raw milk than I can count…never got sick, never had an issue… there are issues if not properly handled, but if you use the same day keep refrigerated..common sense things I call BS on you saying it is worse than eating bugs….I see bug eating as that distribution of wealth thing…Why should American be able to grow and eat meat when the rest of world eats bugs?? Regulate until American’s have the same standard of living as the rest of the 3 world countries… If you like bugs… enjoy!!!!, but for me I will stay with my streak, chops and ribs…

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    • shirelover
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 9:23pm

      Tein – I’m with you, while I know in my head that clean maggots are high in protein, my skin crawls at the thought of eating them. I will raise and eat my own chickens, rabbits, goats etc… no pork – they stink! yes, I‘ve been around them and I don’t have a big enough place for them and i don’t have a big enough place to raise my own beef without buying lots of feed. the point is to raise food off the land!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:07am

      @TEIN

      Thanks for the memories!
      When I was a kid we had a Ayrshire milking cow. That old girl put out more cream than we could possibly use. As soon as the fresh milk chilled in the fridge, we would use a laddle and skim off the thick heavy cream, (about the top third of a gallon glass jar), and drink it as if our lives depended on it. We had milk with everything. Ever put milk in your chilli?

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:59pm

    This will be your only source of protine after the administration gets done with destroying not only the economy, buy every other resource we have.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Barack is not destroying the economy. He is bringing Africa to America, and I find it most delectable. If you are still a useless, overweight, pale-skinned capitalist, you need to get off your cow-fat butt and learn the basics, like how to start a fire without a lighter so you can roast your insects. Africa is IN, you maggot-depleted whiteys. At least give the cockroach-in-chief some credit for re-educating our palates to the savory taste of protein-rich worms. North Koreans are having to eat grass…

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  • Docrow
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:44pm

    Well I was hungry…………………

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  • Infidel49
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:43pm

    Hey, this is America, eat whatever you want. I will continue eating steak and chicken while we still can. the way this country is going, we might not have a choice in the future.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 7:03pm

      This is what patriots will get at the new Alcatraz, if Obum re-elects himself in 2012:
      USDA-approved worms. Not freshly-grilled. Not freshly-picked. Not fresh at all.

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  • VTDave
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:41pm

    Earthworms aren’t bad either and taste like meat when cooked. I tried it on a whim when squirrel hunting with some friends while a teenager. We almost always cooked up some of the squirrels over a fire while hunting and I happened to find some earthworms in the soil around the firepit we always used. I figured wth it couldn’t hurt to try it. I was pleasantly surprised and if the times get desperate enough I know I can scrounge some up if necessary. I might have trouble getting the wife and kids to accept it though.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:37pm

    That’s just plain stupid.

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  • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:31pm

    Tastes like chicken?

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:31pm

    Ill take 2 of them with a huge side of “Peas” Right Moochchelle.

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  • jkendal
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:30pm

    If I were starving, maybe. But when stupid leftists want us to eat insects instead of meat? No.

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Technically, insects are meat. Just a different type than we are used to.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:39pm

      everything has to be political…

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    • jkendal
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:26pm

      “everything has to be political…”

      I’m not the one pushing people to eat insects. Who runs the USDA (an un-Constitutional federal bureaucracy btw)? If you don’t think there are people at the department of Agriculture that would love nothing more than to ban red meat, think again. NONE of our freedoms are safe as long as the left holds political power.

      I wish everything didn‘t have to be political but that’s just the world we live in today…..

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:24pm

      When the word comes down from the Feds, (USDA), that makes it political.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:34pm

      It is USDA approved…meaning it can be served to the paying public…It has nothing to do with the government pushing anyone to eat anything…It is the government approving the food as safe. I am not supporting the USDA, that is another argument, but you people should be thankful the USDA recognizes maggots a food. If some bug entrepreneur wanted to sell maggot burgers but the USDA did not approve it and would not let him THEN you would have a reason to get your panties in a wad…

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:47pm

      I don’t wear panties. I’m just looking at the irony of it considering all the things the Feds say are bad for us. But bugs are okay.
      But feel free to continue training trolls………………

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    • jkendal
      Posted on September 7, 2011 at 8:12am

      “but you people should be thankful the USDA recognizes maggots a food”

      In what crazy world should I ever be glad that the federal government recognizes that maggots are safe to eat?? Aside from the fact that the federal government has NO Constitutional authority to set up a bureaucracy to tell me what is and isn’t safe to eat – IOW my tax dollars are being wrongly taken from me to fund them (it should fall to the States) – I‘m perfectly capable of deciding what is and isn’t save for me to eat.

      BTW, did you know that the federal government has been arresting people for selling milk without (gasp!) the government’s permission? I think that’s something people should be getting their panties wadded up over…..

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on September 7, 2011 at 9:11am

      Jkendel,

      You are just looking for an argument. You will not get it. I do not deny what you say, I even said as much myself. But you are creating an argument here where none exists. This story was not meant to be political, the USDA actually did the right thing for once. Never mind if the agency is needed or not, we are not arguing that.

      I know people will be people, but the types of responses we get on this site dishearten me. No wonder the left can so easily make us out to be total fruitcakes…Most are…There is no rational argument with irrational people. Do you want to change things? Do you want to be part of the solution? Then quit being part of the problem! You are simply the opposite side of the same irrational, loony coin.

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:29pm

    What’s next, aborted babies on a stick? Yummy!

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:25pm

    I just had some potato salad that I’m not too sure of.

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  • Patriot Z
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:24pm

    insects are nd..havent tried ‘maggot’ so to speak…have tried cricket, water beetle, escargot(snails), scorpions, meal worms. most had a very benign flavor. extreamly high in protien as well…and to put a downer side on it(sorry) with food possibly going the way it is the more ‘inclusive’ your palate is the better off you will be. high nutrition, easy raise and plentiful naturally and not a bad taste.

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    • ECEGeorgia
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 2:28pm

      Glad some of us are taking this seriously. I took Glenn seriously about be prepared, and my first though was what can I ‘harvest’ from my 1 acre burb lot? Maggots were among my first choices. Will feed on almost any rotting flesh which we can’t eat. Fast growth, clean, high in protein. Earthworms, and grubs are also plentiful and easy to culture.
      I used to ‘raise’ millions of houseflies for household insecticide quality control testing in my first job. They’re pretty good fried.

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  • HairRazor
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:22pm

    maybe in a pinch.. a real pinch.

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  • DanWesson455
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:19pm

    Yummmy!!! Can I have a large Monkey Pee with that?

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  • starman70
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

    Maybe he could serve President Obama some of these treats. Let’s see if the Prez. could handle that.
    Al gore should also try them. I’m sure that maggots release far less methane than cows and therefore would contribute less to global warming.

    As for me, I will stick to steaks, chops and traditional fare.

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  • Bluefish49
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:16pm

    When the grocery store shelves are empty this might be good to know…

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Don’t knock it till you try it…

    And no…I have not tried it…

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:15pm

    You can eat fly larvae if YOU want, but I, sure as hell, am not going to. Give me a pork tenderloin sandwich any day.

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    • squeaker
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:51pm

      the way it comes packaged, we call it donkey-dong… lol

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:11pm

    And try to get horsemeat anywhere in America. Amazing what our wierd secular taboos lead to.

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    • lemmings4obama
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Or dog meat, funny how society deems some dead flesh acceptable but other dead flesh unacceptable.

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:35pm

      yes we generally shy away from pets on the dinner table

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 12:40pm

      I would not hesitate to do dog, cat, or horse…Insects?…hmmm….If I were hungry enough I would without doubt.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on September 6, 2011 at 1:00pm

      @ Alanstigg — I understand not eating a pet (not only my pet, but anyone’s pet), but secular taboos are enforced by fiat and the delineation is made according to species, not according to an individual animal’s having been a “pet” during its lifetime. Some people have pet goats, pet llama’s, pet rabbits, etc. — but the law does not proscribe their consumption by humans.

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