"It creeps me out to eat smelly green bugs."

Hi Sissygrl, I really have no idea what attracts these stupid bugs, they are meant to play outdoors and like leaves but they will insist in getting through the smallest little spaces and into the house where they play dead until they have one off guard and then set of with their loud rotar impressions. Would you want smelly bugs on your chicken?

Hi Mrs SomeCowGirl, well the bug didn't actually make it onto the plate or the food on the plate, only into his mouth atop a piece of chicken. I thought they were supposed to some kind of vegetarian bugs. They call them smelly as apparently they smell when they are killed but I never notice, but apparently they taste rather vile when bitten.

Yep, I always hope that I do not attract any kind of bugs to my food.

Thea09,

Of course being bit into Yuck! I know that you had said that but didn't think of adding that in my response, sorry about that!

I do worry about bugs whilst outside eating!

Please drop the 09 Mrs Somecowgirl. Perhaps it would be safer eating outside as all the bugs and things are trying to get inside. But there's still plenty outside. This month the flies will start, Greek flies are a terrible nuisance as they have no qualms at all about landing on people. If wasps outside are a menace to you you should put a small quantity of jam away from where you eat to attract them in the opposite direction. Also many bugs don't like the smell of burning coffee so you can place some in some foil over a night light.

Lol, I wasn't sure what you meant at first Thea.

Is that your name?

In any case, There are many diferent ways to repel bugs, some are bug lights that bring them to the outside light and then ZAP! Kill them. The Idea of jam is a good one though... and I've never heard of Either that or Burnt Coffee. Jam is sticky, so it will make them stick to the jam, right?

My name is Amber.

Hi Amber, I picked up the burnt coffee one on one of the Greek islands which seemed plagued by wasps every time any food was set down. Right now I am indoors covered in my usual mosquito milk which generally works but have just been got by mosquitoes. The coffee works mainly on wasps, and you can substitute honey for jam.

I think mostly people use off as a repellant for mosquitoes. They have a spray and now a lotion I believe. I think they make it for not just mosquitoes but other things too. It's probably cheaper to research and see if there's normal household items to repel those critters that are so annoying, lol.

Mosquitoes are the peskiest here in the summer I believe, with bees being pesky too.

Hi GardenGerty, I have no idea what the real name of these annoying little things is. I heard someone English refer to them as leaf bugs and they are supposed to be good in the garden. About the size of a standard fly but with a pale green back which looks a bit like a beetle shell. One bug sounds like twenty outraged flies though. I hope one doesn't disguise itself in your salad later and hope this hasn't put you off your food.

Your salad sonds great, what time is supper?

Ha ha aravindkdr, you are one of those who describe meat as a non vegestarian dish whilst we describe your food as vegetarian. And it was not a hen, hens lay eggs, it was a chicken. Well not a whole one as too expensive these days but yes it was chicken wings. The objection was raised as the bug tasted vile whilst my cooking does not.

why don't we call it sort of hen curry rather than chicken curry?.. (genuine doubt this time around )

I got it.. hen is used to refer female adult ones only! So correction to response "dead chicken"

Because we don't eat hens, hens are kept to produce eggs. (do you eat eggs by the way). So chicken is used in chicken curry, not hens.
I ask about the eggs because they go in so many things, glaze on savoury pastry, in cakes, custards.

Yep!.. you just can't avoid eating egg..(products containing it) its there in anything and everything from bread to my favorite choclate..

So you do eat non vegetarian food after all. Greeks can't really get their heads aroud the idea of vegetarians, though there are many nice vegetable dishes. Life would be much easier for vegetrians visiting here if they just ordered vegetable dishes from the menu rather than announcing to the whole village and its donkey that they were vegetarians, that's the sure way to make someone force feed you a bit of meat.

Thats almost the same way here nowadays.. (in India).. we hardly see any vegetarians.. Specially at public places like parties and ceremonies.. being vegetarian is sort of being theodd one out... demanding a veg curry when nobody else does..

You've suprised me there, I thought it was the way in lots of states there that no meat was eaten. Probably you just live in the wrong part. Do you eat fish I wonder. Whilst not being a vegetarian I did realise on Friday night that it was the first time I'd consumed meat for a month, but the cost is the prohibitive factor now, whereas I get free fish.

I live in sort of coastal area.. but same is the situation in most places in the country (nowoadays).. Fish is available in plenty.. I do hav fish curry (very rarely though - not sort of a habbit).. I've tried being vegetarian.. but that looked never easy... as we don't get fresh fruits/vegetables... the organic (cultivated without using any chemical fertilizers or pesticides) products gets exported.. the low quality (harmful to health ) stuff gets distributed in the local market.. that we never a chance to taste quality traditional products. At the end of it.. we tried planting some fruits/vegetables at home

Hi Stvsile, now if your mother had put more of her vile herbs in the soup you would have been paying more attention and seen the moth before biting into it. I never considered what a moth would taste like but often find moth corpses floating inside the coffee dregs the next morning.
Naturally I would have expected you to finish the soup of course as I recall the bean soup being one of your mothers better efforts on the soup front.

Hi Aunty, hope it cheered you a bit. He really thought he had a good tale to impart and insisted on me putting it here. . I saw your comment before, I hope you weren't expecting a Greek looking type of person. I leave that one to my son. Now the Greek avatar hasn't taken but the friendly fisherman is on here somewhere and could actually one day be the avatar but I've give up on it and I'm sure you are still looking at a table.
The chicken can quite happily go at its current price, if the smelly bugs didn't apparently taste so vile they may well have done as a good protein supply,

I did get a kick out of him & his comments. U must know how much i love kids. They crack me up. This was as serious as a heart attack to him & so cute he wanted u to put it on mylot.
I wasn't expecting u to be blonde, don't know why just me & my crazy ideas. I'm always picturing somone in my mind before i see them & as i said i'm never right. U look fine to me. was real glad i got to see your picture. hugs. Yasou, Aunty.

Oh no it was just great drama to him aunty, he was playing it up for all he was worth. He announced he was never going on the tv show 'survivor' now he knows what bugs taste like.

My dear Opal my son was hamming it up for all it was worth, and he insisted I put it on the internet. A green smelly bug is an irritating thing which appears at this time of the year and manages to get indoors. They look docile, a bit like a fly but more stupid, one casual swat and their corpses are everywhere, but they are so noisy, one sounds horrendous. They are supposed to stink bad when killed hence the name and apparently they also don't taste too good.

Hi Jillhill, you are going to be in major trouble if my son reads this which he probably will after demanding no less that I put it on here. The inclusion of 'poor baby' will incense him, he's at that age.

Taking a sting out a tongue sounds like a near on impossible task due to the natural reaction of the tongue to withdraw in protest. I hope I never have to tackle anything like that. I expect your son is wary of bees now and so he should be.

Hi Zeph, naturally I was responsibe for something flying onto his chicken and into his mouth It was meant to be a cunning plan of course to live off bugs which are free but I needed an official taster first as he can still be a bit fussy in the food department (when do they grow out of that one), but now bugs taste vile so won't be on the menu.

I don't think they ever grow out of being picky. My husband is 34 and is so picky that I hate cooking for him. My 13 year old will eat anything except turkey and I tell him that it's chicken

I can't understand why there is not a single 20 year old male on the planet, apart from greek ones of course, who don't enjoy a curry, but totally refuse to try it in their youth. I get tired of the phrase 'I don't like that' when it has never been tasted.

34 and still picky, why doesn't he do the cooking?

LMAO! Because the kids and I enjoy living. His mother is the worst cook, I have never tasted food so bad in all of my life. I have a little compassion as to why he is so picky since I have had the displeasure of eating his mother's cooking.

That's illogical then, if the mother in laws cooking was so bad he should be really greatful for anything that doesn't emerge from her kitchen.

You should tell him that. But, you know, it's great that she was an awful cook because last week I made a roast and it was a little dry and he loved it.

Hi shepherdspy, I agree that the half bug would be much worse, but it's unlikey to happen with a green smelly bug as apparently one can't help but notice biting into them. Must say they do seem to have rather nasty brown innards when squashed.

The floor is now littered with corpses which will require sweeping up after another coffee, they are really so stupid that if they do get in in the night they kill themselves by flying into a wall.

I'm not so familiar with the shiny green flies you mention..(and am thankfully not at all familiar with how they'd taste! Yechhh!)there seem to be more of the "bluebottles" herabouts,which just orbit around the lights in a room when they get in..There's a common expression arising from them..if someone's dashing around aimlessly,going nowhere fast,We say they're "Running around like a blue arsed fly"!

WE simplify the running around like a blue arsed fly down to zouzouni, which translates as bug, live wire, pest. Maybe I should introduce the phrase running around like a green smelly bug down at the cafenion.

From that Onomatopaeic expression,I wonder Was the scriptwriter who came up with Chris Tucker's Character "Ruby Rhod"'s (in The 5th Element) "ZzZZIIZZ!!" (Buzz off gesture) by any chance of Greek origin?

I have no idea of what you speak I'm afraid. However most things in the world are of Greek origin.

A Luc Besson Movie,Starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich..