We should eat insects

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I wouldn't eat them raw but I would try them if they are cooked but then again I don't mind eating stuff like liver that people seem to loathe due to social stigma. I've had snail so it isn't like I haven't had similar stuff before.

 

[Suave Charlie]

I had scorpion once.. never again.

If you can serve me up something like a good chicken breast but from something not chickeny then go for it.

 

[scorptatious]

This thread brings this song to mind.


OT: I probably couldn't bring myself to eat bugs myself. At least not raw. If cooked however...

Hmm...

>_>

FK NO. This thread made me sick cause I went a little further and did some googling and found that. Sorry. I think I rather drink piss.

Slimy, yet satisfying.

 

[BaronUberstein]

If you could make it taste and look like a steak, sure.

 

[R0cklobster]

Well, for one thing, almost all the bugs i've tried haven't been super nice, but even then if you were just used to it it wouldn't be a problem. Even if it is a good idea, i'd be surprised if it ever caught on culturally.

 

[Hexenwolf]

Is a bag of roasted wood lice tastier than a bag of pistachio nuts?

No?

Then no dice.

What if they DID turn out tastier?

 

[Imperius]

I think we should eat YOU.
Yeah, yeah. How about that?
You're delicious, nutritious and taste just like chicken!

(Plus the population control thingy too.)

Come here!

Om nom nom.

 

[iLazy]

In Thailand they sell bug trail mix.

My mom's Thai, and I asked her about it. She said that she ate grasshopper and other insects. Some of it was good, some of it was bad. It just depends on how you prepare them. Me? I'd give it a try... if the heads were gone.

 

[kortin]

No thanks. I don't even like fish, I highly doubt I would like bugs. Besides, why eat bugs when you have much tastier foods such as chicken, pork, or beef!

I think we should eat YOU.
Yeah, yeah. How about that?
You're delicious, nutritious and taste just like chicken!

(Plus the population control thingy too.)

Come here!

Om nom nom.

Bath salts man, bath salts! D:

 

[VladG]

Om nom.

I'm technically all for it, but I think for my delicate and refined palate they'd have to be processed into some sort of bar or paste form.

Here's the problem. Those who already eat insects know how to cook them and can easily purchase them.

Where I live there is NO tradition of eating insects whatsoever.

I know neither how to cook them to make them palatable (though that's easily overcome with the internet) or WHAT insects to eat and WHERE to get them from.

Importing them would make them very expensive, to the point that I'd rather just eat meat.

So in theory, yeah, eating bugs is great.. but in practice.. not so much.

 

[Imperius]

Bath salts man, bath salts! D:

Oh yeah, sprinkle some of those on, gives the meat a good tangy kick =D

 

[Guffe]

It's not part of Scandinavian culture to eat insects the way you mean to but I do know other people do that. If I'd get the opportunity hell yeah I'd try, I heard it tastes like chicken...

 

[Kroxile]

Yeeeahhh.. how about no? Yeah, gonna go with no.

I'll stick to traditional meats thank you very much, and until the prices on hamburger go through the roof due to rarity, I don't really care if most of the animal is wasted either.

 

[Saulkar]

I struggle as it is to eat vegetables without vomiting from the texture alone.

 

[KefkaCultist]

I'd willfully eat insects (cooked and not alive obviously). I mean, an insect really isn't that much different from shrimp or other similar types of seafood and I love me some seafood.

 

[Gennadios]

When I was in Thailand I subsisted on tarantulas and cockroaches for a week straight.

Not like that... there was a stall outside of my hostel selling them. I can't really say it was any worse a diet than eating purely McDonalds in some of the other places I've been.

 

[Rawne1980]

I have no problem eating insects but the first bugger to put Spider on toast in front of me is getting a beating.