For schnipping and schnapping and schnooping and schneeping

[sovay]

So today I got up on less than two hours' sleep to accompany rushthatspeaks and Lucien to the latter's vet appointment in Woburn (with a stop in Teele Square for muffins along the way) and then in the late afternoon I accompanied Rush to their PT appointment in Assembly Square (with a stop in Davis Square for gyros on the way back) and despite two hours' downtime for work and grilled cheese in the midafternoon it has been a rather medical day.

There were two packages on the porch when we got home. I opened them to find that a mysterious benefactor off the internet had sent me a copy of Suzanne Gargiulo's Hans Conried: A Biography (2002) and a box of protein bars made with cricket flour. I am absolutely amazed. Thank you, internet benefactor ladymondegreen! The cricket bars come in four flavors and the frontispiece of the biography shows Conried arching an ineffably world-weary eyebrow. These are things that really make my day.

I am in Lexington now, helping my mother get the house ready for Pesach. I have just discovered that my great-grandmother's chopper and bowl are properly a hakmeser and shisl as seen in the photo at the head of the article, although hers has some very old cloth-backed tape wound round the handle to soften it.

The important things.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

One of my friends brought around the cricket bars for some of us to try. They weren't bad (even after we found out they were made with crickets), though some flavors were better than others. I'm not really into protein bars, though my friend said she's eaten them since and they're decent.

[sovay]

I'm not really into protein bars, though my friend said she's eaten them since and they're decent.

I ate protein bars on a regular basis when I was in high school and doing archery, so I am capable of metabolizing if not actually enjoying them as a foodstuff, but my real interest in these is the crickets.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

So my natural question is: are the cricket bars kosher, or will you have to wait until after Pesach?

[sovay]

So my natural question is: are the cricket bars kosher, or will you have to wait until after Pesach?

I left the bars in Somerville, so without being able to check them for a hechsher, I feel this question will depend most strongly on the kashrut status of crickets. I've been under the impression for years that the only kosher insect is the locust, which means at least the grasshopper I ate last Saturday was free and clear. Asking the internet yields this article from two years ago. Maybe the status has changed by now?