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[โ€“] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

[โ€“] potoo22@programming.dev 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Human anteaters live among us and they look just like any other human.

If you eat one ant, you are an anteater. You may not even have consciously have eaten one. It could have been hidden in your sandwich or mixed in with a soup. You may be an anteater and not even known it ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[โ€“] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Ants georg is an outlier and should not be counted.

[โ€“] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I haven't had ants, specifically, but I have eaten termites. Can I join anteater club?

[โ€“] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 3 points 6 days ago

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[โ€“] JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Most of us are rat shit eaters anyhow.

[โ€“] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Itโ€™s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too.

There's a traditional dish using ant butts some ~500km down north from where I live. Video related - ant butts, yucca meal, garlic, bacon, onion.

I personally never tasted it, but I'm mildly curious about it.