Entity Number: 155
Habitat - Level 10, Level 300
Description
This Meat is Gummy, or what I like to call it. TMIG. [ What? Stanley what the fuck do you mean it isn’t protocol? When did we- Really? The M.E.G. is just some ragtag group of people who draw maps, do we NEED to have a specific format for this? Whatever.. ]. They look to be an assortment of normal gummy worms. They are… There’s nothing much to say about them, they’re gummy worms. They probably taste like gummy worms too, though no one here is all too inclined to give em a go. They don’t appear to be sour gummy worms, none of that… citric acid stuff on them. And each gummy appears to be one solid colour, no half and half. Bummer.
Behaviors
They crawl around like an actual worm would, aren’t sticky to the touch, and don’t secrete acid or bite people. Thank god. Hopefully they don’t give you death by sugar overdose or something else completely random and out of pocket. I’m getting tired of finding out about shit like,
“ooooh, meet the super death moss that does super death mossy things!”
Anyhow, the fuckshit worms stay in “herds” of roughly 100 to 150. Despite the fact that from a distance they're an Entomophobes’ worst nightmare, they look pretty cute up close.
[begin log]
Arthur: Oh my g- can you guys- OKAY. STOP, fucking poking the damn things, and just give me the unholy worms.
Stanley: Wait, you’re actually going to eat them?
Arthur: Well yeah jackass thats what we’re here for ain’t it. It’d be fucked if we didn’t discover anything and let the next poor guy die of like- diabetes. Though, if these worms are a variant of wormlings… well shit. If I die. At LEAST make sure to record what happens.
Stanley: Alright, alright you can stop the preaching…
Arthur: Phew. Okay. Bottoms up I guess.
[Audible pause]
Arthur: Holy shit.Stanley: What? Is it edible?
Nicky: Yeah ask him if we can eat the stupid worms before asking if he’s okay?
Stanley: [muffled sigh] Are you okay Arthur.
Arthur: Better than that boys, because I might be in heaven. Get this. The red ones taste just like beef. [muffled] Mmph high qualithy cuths aht that. [audible exhale] PHEW. I could go all day, its just free meat a la carte. First meat I’ve had in a while. And it doesn’t look like I’m dying, so I guess this is a source of food?
Nicky: Woah thats… unexpected, hey let me tr-
Stanley: Wait really? [picks up a handful of blue gummy worms]
Nicky: [mumbling] Greedy fucker.
Stanley: [audible chewing] Goddamn, you’re right!
[end log]
As it turns out, these things are edible, and taste pretty damn good. We spent a few hours experimenting with them, and discovered that the worms can’t actually burn or melt despite the gummy exterior, and taste great basically anyway you eat them. And even though they’re practically raw meat, there’s no need to cook them. Though we do recommend you cooking them, as the uncooked ones taste like raw meat and cooked worms taste properly cooked.
Biology
Again, they have the exact same look and feel as a regular gummy worm would. When we cut into one, it was like… much more similar to animal fat than gummy worm. They don’t have what I assume normal worms have: blood or any internal organs. But after wandering around level 10 for a while, just to see if there were any more, we discovered that they originally come from a giant glob of “gummy” roughly the size of a soccer ball. About 200 worms come from what I named, a “Cluster”.
We have no clue where Clusters originate from but you can eat them as well, it’s roughly 2.5 pounds worth of TMIG. We each ate a… steak? A filet? Wiki don’t exist down here dont quote me on semantics. But it all tasted like a meat dish we ate back in the Frontrooms. For me it tasted like a nice juicy steak loaded with garlic. Nicky said for him it tasted like a fried chicken steak smothered in gravy. And Stanley’s tasted like chicken tenders.
The worms, pop, out of the mass of gummy worms. It’s sort of like a popping a pimple. The place where the new worm starts bulging out, and after a short amount of time the worm pops out of the bulge in the “Cluster”.
Discovery
We were wandering around level 10 because we forgot Nicky was still there. If that idiot keeps wandering off he’ll get into a nasty situation someday, but we searched until we found him poking some worms with a stalk of wheat. While messing around we discovered that one of these is just about equivalent to eating a small cubes worth of meat in proteins, fats, and acids. So, they don’t kill you, they taste great, are high quality, and are a healthy source of food as well. We even made a few recipes with these things. Red = Beef, Blue = Pork, Yellow = Chicken, Green = Varies depending on how you use them while cooking. Eaten raw it just tastes like onion. Now obvious disclaimer: don't depend on three bums in a notebook log for all of your cooking advice.
Recipe 1 Skewered Worms - We take three of each colour and put them on a skewer. Putting one green in between colours, and then roasted them over an open fire for roughly 10-15 minutes. 2-3 skewers serve one person.
Recipe 2 Almond Soup - Cut about 15 of the beef ones into chunks along with 7-10 green ones, and cover it all in about two cups of almond water. Let it boil for about 30-45 minutes. If you followed the directions correctly, you should have something similar to a potato and beef stew. The green worm varies in taste and appearance every time we made the soup, 60% of the time it was potato, 30% of the time was onion, and 10% of the time we got carrots, potato, onion, and a variety of other vegetables. One standard pot serves around 3-4 people.
There is also a special dish you can eat at Tom’s Diner. The best chef in all of the Backrooms in my humble opinion. Assorted Fried Wormies… yeahhh the name is a bitch, but the food tastes great so you won’t hear me complaining.
Do's and Don'ts:
Do:
- Grab as many as you can if you find any
- If you have the chance take the cluster
Don't:
- Leave without taking any