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I’ve never tried whole bugs, only protein bars. I feel like the texture of exoskeleton would be the worst part?
It’s just crispy when cooked properly. Do you like chips? French fries? Crispy pork? You’ll be at home!
Fried and de-legged they taste like sunflower seed kernels, they’re really inoffensive. The worst part is thinking about what they are.
That sounds alright. De-legged makes sense.
A friend of mine in Zambia taught me how to fry caterpillars. They are like squishy french fries. They are fine. They pair well with chibuku.
I had dried cricket when my aunt hosted this insane trivia game as one of the “rewards” for guessing incorrectly, it actually wasn’t that bad, didn’t really taste like anything, just a standard salty burnt taste or a weird potato chip
Not something I’m gonna go out and find to eat but it wasn’t bad
Your first sentence says, “it actually was that bad,” but your second sentence says, “but it wasn’t that bad” so I’m going to assume you meant the latter.
Oh yeah I meant to say wasnt, oops
For anyone wondering, this is called “Manufacturing Consent”.
In Mexico, chapulines are a bit of an exotic delicacy from old Aztec cuisine, there’s a place in my town that has them, heated and tossed on a grill with no oil, then served on a corn tortilla with black beans, fresh chopped onions and cilantro, topped with a lime squeeze and green jalapeño salsa.
They are delicious.Oh god that sounds disgusting! How can you eat that? I don’t think I could even get to the point of swallowing, let alone chewing it up. I feel a little nauseous just thinking about it. Cilantro?!
You’re sounding awfully judgemental for a mutant!
It always makes me so disappointed. I have tried cilantro probably a hundred times now always thinking yeah, it makes things better for others it has to taste fine this time. So I use it when I make tacos or anything if someone else is eating with me. Yet every time, still tastes like fucking soap. Lol. I really want it to not… Not sure why.
Genetics.
Same reason some people can’t smell aspara-piss.
I think it’s understandable that you want something to taste nice, especially if others seem to enjoy it and you feel like you’re missing out.
If you want to know ‘why’ it tastes like soap it is literally genetics. You have a mutation to your taste buds!
I also have a fun one, I can taste Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol, which most people can’t. I can taste it in quantities as low as 10 parts per trillion.
It is a shitty superpower because it makes water that is perfectly clean and safe to drink taste like mud.
So uh… If I didn’t know what those were before you mentioned them is that a bad thing?
Nope, I only know because my cities water supply was switched one day and our tap water went from the being like the finest spring water to a muddy puddle.
I contacted the water supplier and found out Im a mutant… and that you can mostly fix it by boiling the water.
My nephews lived in Mexico for a few years and they still miss them.
Wish there was a place to try this in the US.
There is! Everything they listed is readily available in your local market, and crickets can be purchased in bulk at pet stores.
Fish bait is for fish.
I don’t know how much crickets cost, but legumes are pretty cheap too
Crickets and other insects meant for consumption are actually pretty expensive, so that cant be real. There is so much cheaper food that you would actually want to eat.
I love trying out insect based food, and every time it was a lot more expensive, drier, and tasted worse than other options, so I cant imagine something like this actually going mainstream.
They are really expensive because no one is buying them but people who have time and money to spend on changing their habits.
BUT! They are actually pretty cheap to raise yourself. Crickets can eat leftovers and parts of vegetable you sometimes don’t want to eat like potato peels. We used to do that to feed our lizards and spiders at home. I guess that preparing them for human consumption would be a bit longer (drying and grinding them, or whatever), but still much cheaper than store-bought meat.You could just raise chickens at the point.
Crickets are cheaper/more efficient.
But you can do both, if your cricket operation really gets going you can use them to feed the chickens.
Feeding destruents to a destruent? Two times the loss; crickets/chicken was supposed to save food money, not waste it.
Man I can’t help but cringe when reading this and picturing myself handling and eating them. In principle, I’m all for it, but I’m kind of a somewhat squeamish eater and I think for me they would need to be integrated into something where you can’t really tell it’s there (protein bars, soups, whatever).
Yeah, even visualization aside, I guess insects are not that interesting to cook compared to your usual animals. You probably won’t make yourself a “steak” from crickets alone. What is usually sold is flour. You can spread it on your salad to add proteins, or make burgers patties with them.
I write all that as if I was an expert, but I honestly never tried it ^^. One day, probably.Now I’m interested in what the best method of cooking them is.
I would fucking love to get my protein from insects - they’re prohibitively expensive.
Also, outrage bait.
I looked up cricket flour and it’s not cheap, also some complaints that it’s not real flour like for baking
Nothing is like wheat flour for baking.
Yeah, I was curious to see the comments because I think OP was expecting something similar to facebook or reddit. But I feel like most people here recognize this for the lame rage bait that it is. Only idiot Fox News watching conservatives freak out about this shit.
I’ll have plant protein instead, thanks.
You mean carbs.
I’m eating billionaire bacon before I eat bugs, no thanks
What part is the bacon, around the gut?
I’d eat bugs well before I tried to eat another human, billionaire or not.
But if you gave me a flyswatter to kill a random bug or a gun to kill a random CEO, and I HAD to choose one or the other… the bug would probably make it out alive.
Words cannot express how much I hate this parent, why bother asking for good advice when you can feed your kids animal food, abusive.
Crickets are actually a very healthy, and tasty protein source.
you’re gonna lose it when you find out that most of the world eats bugs with no issues
Shrimp is bugs
