Amen-Moses

They are good, and you can eat them whole after a little baking (especially caramelised - yummy).

Much better than snails imo.

Amen-Moses

Angyson

There is a restaurant in Place Ville Marie in Montreal which serves over 50 different escargots dishes. No locusts.

IamMoose

I can't see myself trying snails OR locusts I do believe that they probably taste okay, but there is just an ick factor that I can't get over . Mind, loads of people eat cockles, muscles and winkles in this country and I suppose they are just water dwelling snails.

CX

I've eaten a roasted cricket and a roasted bee before. They're just kind of crunchy. Many peoples even today eat locusts so it hardly seems extraordinary to suppose that JtB did, though I'm at a loss why anyone would care one way or the other.

Chili

The message here is that the locusts indicate a time of poverty for John who was used to load of information from Joseph the enterprising carpenter. The emergence of John is the evidence of a prolonged melancholy in the mind of Joseph and John was send by the Lord to prepare the way towards a successful renewal of the mind (and there better be no locusts there or John would have been told to stay home).

Sensei Meela

It was my understanding that John's garb and locust-eating diet were meant to demonstrate that he was the prophet Elijah, or in the spirit of Elijah, whose return was promised as a portent of the coming of Messiah.

IamMoose

A roasted bee? Argh! Did they take the sting out?