rice puddsting: chocolate covered scorpion

another gift came my way recently in the form of three chocolate covered scorpions. these little tinkers were detoxified, thankfully. quite small, they were about the size of a spoon head and coated with dark, belgian chocolate. after considering many ways of eating the things, i decided (quite rightly so) on enjoying them with some rice pudding. yum yum. so, after enjoying a dinner of the rabbit and hare stew for the third night in a row, i tossed the three scorpions into a large bowl of the rice based dessert.after admiring them swimming about for a few minutes, i scooped up one of the chocolate fiends with the spoon. the poor blighter's tail fell off, but it was too late for him anyway seeing as he was encased in a chocolate grave. with a little apprehension i tucked him into my mouth and gave him a good crunch.

the texture of the scorpion was quite crunchy. on a scale of chocolate bars i would say it lay somewhere between a kit kat and a dime bar. more so kit kat though. it didn't taste of much since the dark chocolate was very distinct. whilst the pincers were the crunchiest part, the tail proved to be the best bit presenting a subtle peanut flavour to my taste buds.

eight days left, four animals to eat.