{"id":1576,"date":"2003-10-14T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/14\/pass-the-crispy-worms-please\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:40:26","slug":"pass-the-crispy-worms-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/14\/pass-the-crispy-worms-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Crispy Worms, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1462'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"430\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/holhor.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"159\" align=\"left\">Fortnum<br \/>\n        and Mason have launched a range of edible treats for Halloween including<br \/>\n        real worms, ants and scorpions. <\/p>\n<p>      The creatures used in the white chocolate ants, toffee scorpions and barbeque<br \/>\n      worm crisps are farm raised specially for human consumption. <\/p>\n<p>      Fortnum and Mason claim the scorpions taste like &quot;walnuts&quot;, the<br \/>\n      American red ants used in their peppermint lollipops have a &quot;spicy<br \/>\n      pepper&quot; flavour and the worms taste like &quot;toasted popcorn&quot;. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/worrmz.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p>Other products in the range include an intricately decorated chocolate<br \/>\n        witch and a jar of giant hornet honey, with one of the largest species<br \/>\n      of wasp in the world, the Giant Japanese Hornet, inside. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortnumandmason.com\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/Fortnums\">from Fortnum and Mason&#8217;s Web site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_828617.html\">Ananova story<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnum and Mason have launched a range of edible treats for Halloween including real worms, ants and scorpions. The creatures used in the white chocolate ants, toffee scorpions and barbeque worm crisps are farm raised specially for human consumption. Fortnum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/14\/pass-the-crispy-worms-please\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}