The new Bear Grylls [he’s the star of Man vs Wild] commercial has him eating a HUGE larvae . The Larvae is distorted in the commercial with words, but it is still squirming about. Then he plops it in his mouth and … well Check it out:
First aquaint yourself with Bear Grylls
Now aquaint yourself with THE LARVAE *
*Wait for the second one…not the first one. 
I mean really, is starving to death so bad?
This is one of my all-time favorite book purchases. After I bought this, I read aloud from it all the way home – The Eat A Bug Cookbook:
http://www.davidgeorgegordon.com/
There’s an entire chapter on insect eating in Martin Harruis’ The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig/Good to Eat. People around the world and throughout history have done it. Aristotle praised eating grasshoppers, and St. John ate locusts. Insects may be high in protein, but they’re also high in fat, so don’t eat too many. On the other hand, raising insects is a MUCH lower burden on the land than raising cattle.
The commercial in question essentially has guaranteed that I will never, ever watch that show. OTOH, whenever the producers first viewed the tape of that giant splodge of bug juice jetting out of his mouth and dripping down his face, I’m sure they knew right then and there that they’d hit it out of the park, advertising-wise.
Oh dear god, I saw that commercial once, and now I run screaming from the room every time it starts. Was that really necessary?
Oh. I saw that commercial and was absolutely sure that it was a fake–that he was just biting down on a capsule of fake slime, or something.
Uh… have I been whooshed? Was that a REAL BUG?
I’ve previously discussed my weak stomach when it comes to eating insects (as well as my full awareness that it’s an arbitrary, culturally ingrained taboo, not anything remotely like logical) but, I have to ask: was it necessary for the dude to chomp down on a living larvae? What about a nice grilled grub? A barbecued bug? An incinerated insect? Or, if not cooked, why not at least dead?!
Oh yes, it was a real bug. I love this show, and if you think that was bad you should not see the one where he fills a rattlesnake skin with his own pee, and later drinks it to demonstrate how to survive in the dessert. That boy is not right.
I just saw that one. In straight up survival terms he does show how you can survive…disgusting as it may be…you’d live.
My w ife does the same thing…but she just covers her eyes. However, you can still hear the SQUASH/SPLAT while he eats it.
This reminds me of the Gary Larson cartoon* where the Bear Researcher is standing in his bear suit, surrounded by suspicious bears, and one holds out a handful of grubs. The caption reads:
“Oh, so you’re a REAL bear, huh? Well, then maybe you’ll like some grubs. In fact, we wanna see you CHUG them!”
*Too many of my SDMB posts start out this way.
I saw the episode that clip was taken from. (Can’t remember which one it was.) Without the words superimposed over it, it’s a real, wriggling grub.
Biggest creepy crawly I’ve ever seen. Could have almost field dressed the thing and then carved out a couple nice filets.
oh. my.
i totally don’t need to watch that show.
I posted the link to the actual footage upthread in the OP 
Careful Sattua don’t open it
He finds a way to include pee-drinking in just about every show. I second the sentiment that he is just not right.
I highly recommend watching only the cold climate episodes. No bug-eating and he’s almost guaranteed to strip down to nothing and jump in the water - or alternately, jump in the water and then strip down to nothing - to show you what you have to do to survive that. Dude may be crazy but he’s nice to look at.
Someone else said in a previous thread - Les Stroud of “Survivorman” is the kind of guy you want with you in an actual, real-life disaster. Bear Grylls is who you want if the aliens land or zombies crawl out of the grave or something like that.
I have to turn away when he’s just biting down on the wiggly “Wednesday” - there’s no way I can click on your link.
They kept showing him eating an eyeball in previous commercials.
::shudder::
Ooo, yeah. I think there might have been eyeball-eating in a cold climate episode.
Yes, it was a not-quite-frozen some kind of dead animal eyeball. Maybe a whale? It was HUGE!
That 2nd larva must have had issues. You’d think, a larva that size would have grown up and become an adult by now. I wonder why it was so stuck in the past?
Note: both links go directly to video file.