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A matter of taste
(Text tasks 5.1 and 5.2)
Weird News
Ice Cream Goes Buggy
Are you ready for chocolate crickets in your ice cream?
By Carolyn R. Buchanan
I scream. You scream. Now we can all scream at ice cream. That’s what 20-year-old Regan
Meyer did when she tried the newest freaky flavor, chocolate- covered cricket. “Eeuuuw! I
can feel the cricket!” she shrieked.
Eat Crickets, Win Prizes
Believe it or not, crickets – those grasshopper-like bugs that make such a racket on summer
nights – are now turning up in ice cream from coast to coast. Cold Stone Creamery, located
in Scotsdale, Arizona, is offering the buggy desert, but they’re not the first to look at crickets
and think: desert!
Where the Crickets Come From
The crickets themselves come from a candy company called Hotlix that sells all sorts of bug
treats including maggots, cockroaches, ants and worms. For this ice cream confection, the
company raises the crickets in cages until they are about six weeks old. The crickets are fed
whole grain bread and apples. Hotlix believes this keeps them healthy and happy – at least
until baking day. The crickets get cooked for about five minutes. Then they are coated in
chocolate before they are mixed in with ice cream.
More Nutritious than Chocolate
Crickets actually have nutritional value and are high in protein, says Jordan Levine, a
member of the marketing team at Cold Stone Creamery. And workers at Hotlix say
Americans are behind times as far as bug eating goes. They point out that lots of different
cultures eat insects as part of their regular diet. Stephen MacDonald of Utah’s Department of
Health agrees. “I would be more concerned about people eating too much chocolate than
too much crickets,” he said.
Words to help
From: www.timeforkids.com
cricket
racket
maggots
nutritional
krekel
kabaal
maden
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(Text tasks 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5)
The Meaning of the Apple in History
Forbidden Fruit
Though Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden were forbidden to eat the apple from the tree of
knowledge, Eve just couldn’t resist it, and neither can we!
Fairytale fruit
Snow White bit the apple which had been poisoned by her wicked stepmother and fell into a deep
sleep from which only the kiss of her prince could wake her.
Apple of Disagreement
Paris, Prince of Troy, was forced by the gods to choose who was the most beautiful goddess of them
all. He gave the prize, an apple to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, not to Hera, Queen of the gods and
not to Athena, goddess of war and wisdom. Aphrodite had bribed Paris to win the prize, by promising
him the most beautiful not god-like woman then alive, Helen. But Helen was married to Agamemnon,
who then led the Greek army to war and destroyed the city of Troy.
The Apple of Fortune
One of the richest men in America, John Davidson Rockefeller, used to say that he began his great
fortune with a single apple. He bought one apple and sold it with some profit. With the extra money he
was able to buy more apples and so on and so on.
Because apples were so irresistibly delicious they have been since ancient times a symbol of
everything tempting and desirable.
Did you know…?
Fact 1 Your Heart
… apples contain important minerals- especially potassium which is good for the heart.
Fact 2 Your Vitamins
… most vitamin C is in the skin – so wash, don’t peel when you crunch.
Fact 3 Your Teeth
… fluoride occurs naturally in apples- you get a brighter bite when you give yourself Le Crunch.
Fact 4 Your digestion
… apples are rich in fibre. Eating apples helps your digestion.
Fact 5 Your skin
… ripe apples contain about 86% moisture and are totally fat free.
Fact 6 Your breathing
… there is a strong positive association between long function and the number of apples eaten per
week. The more apples you eat, the more easily you breathe.
Fact 7 Sugar for Energy
… apples contain from 8 to 14% natural fruit sugar to give you energy the healthy way.
Fact 8 Apples are cholesterol free
… in fact, eating apples can help to reduce cholesterol.
Words to help
bribed
irresistibly
tempting
digestion
association
omgekocht
onweerstaanbaar
verleidelijk
spijsvertering
verband, associatie