>A traditional Bulgarian way to make yogurt is to put ants in the milk.
I wonder of the formic acid in ants has anything to do with helping the curdling process. Ants have fairly acidic bodies, they taste like lemon when you eat them....yes I have eaten ants.
Carpenter ants taste far far far worse than lemon. They taste like burning. As there are over 1,000 species of carpenter ants, I can't tell you specifically which species, but they are the black and brown ones that are common in Maine.
I wonder of the formic acid in ants has anything to do with helping the curdling process. Ants have fairly acidic bodies, they taste like lemon when you eat them....yes I have eaten ants.