Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Markets in Everything- Desert Shrimps



A photo-essay from BBC on lucust marketing;
“We then put them in bags and head for the market. A bag of live locusts fetches between $26 and $30. Locusts are simply money-spinners,” Mr Ibrahim says.
“Most of our buyers are women who in turn dress the locusts, fry them and sell them to members of the public.

“We buy the locusts from the boys," says Esther Daniel, who sells fried locusts in Maiduguri town.
"After that we remove their wings so they can’t fly,” she says.

“We simply deep-fry them in vegetable oil. Then they are ready to be eaten as a snack,” Mrs Daniel explains.

“We make a powder of salted hot chilli which we call yaji. You eat the locust by dipping it in the yaji

The hind legs are the tastiest part. They are the ones that actually make people call the locusts 'desert shrimps'.

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