Show locusts as ai human food locusts were reckoned among the clean things which might be enten eaten by the israelites leviticus 1122 and being vegetable feeders are still among the articles of food in occasional use among oriental people john the baptist la Is said to have subsisted upon them and wild honey while remaining in the wilderness although a tradition has it that his locusts were the sweet edible pods of it the locust or carol carob a kind of acacia tree used as food for sheep and cattle in europe and known as st johns bread considered holy by certain of the jews matthew 34 |