{"id":1434,"date":"2013-03-02T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/02\/man-carrying-207-pounds-of-caterpillars-said-they-were-for-eating\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:43:46","slug":"man-carrying-207-pounds-of-caterpillars-said-they-were-for-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/man-carrying-207-pounds-of-caterpillars-said-they-were-for-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Carrying 207 Pounds Of Caterpillars Said They Were For Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Someone&#8217;s very hungry for caterpillar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A 22-year-old passenger caught carrying 207 pounds of dried caterpillars at London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport on Saturday told customs agents that the insects were meant for personal consumption, the Associated Press reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The passenger, who was traveling from Burkina Faso via Istanbul, had to give up the thousands of shrink-wrapped &#8216;pillars, the BBC reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;I would warn travellers not to attempt to bring any products of animal origin into the UK without a permit,&#8221; Border Force spokeswoman Ingrid Smith told the station.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This guy isn&#8217;t the only one with a taste for caterpillar. On Tuesday, French health inspectors discovered that a Paris restaurant was cooking up caterpillar stew. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&#8217;s very hungry for caterpillar. A 22-year-old passenger caught carrying 207 pounds of dried caterpillars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1731,1734,1730,1733,370,115,368,107,1732,605,1050,1550],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-1731","tag-airport","tag-carrying","tag-caterpillars","tag-eating","tag-for","tag-man","tag-of","tag-pounds","tag-said","tag-they","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}