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Ants as Pickles and Other Fragments from a Bygone Era
A Maine lumberman reportedly ate ants as pickles from a rotten stump and later with pork and beans at his camp. The piece cites ants as clean and tasty, notes their medicinal use and formic acid, and recounts Herodotus on desert ants and Indians using ants to aid gold hunting. Also referenced are Daniel Webster and a rivalry between Rubinstein and von Bülow with humorous footnotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Herodotus
Lidia
Pitteburg Dispatch
Rubinstein
von Balow
Hans von Bulow
Ocean Symphony
Ocean
von Bulow
Stein
Bao Ven Butove
Patticahia
Ruldustein
St. James