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Could you eat INSECTS?!

Danoz

Danoz

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http://www.npr.org/2011/10/30/141738704/the-ick-factor-bugs-can-be-hard-to-swallow

Interesting NPR article!

It makes me thankful that Japanese kids and parents seem to find the ides of eating bugs just as gross as I do (though we all seem to enjoy deliciously raw seasfoods over rice). When it comes to insects, I do have to admit I have the same instinctive "gag reflex" even thinking about eating a spider or flying insect-- regardless of how it would taste. I suppose I never realized that bugs are healthier and infinitely more productive a food for an exploding human population than beef and poultry--- here's hoping the rest of my lifetime is filled with delicious steaks before I would have to resort to bugs!
 
No. Just no. Not only no, but hell no. Not only hell no, but HELL no. Not only HELL no, but a Will Smith style "Aw, HELL naw!".
 
When I was a kid I ate a live grasshopper on a dare. Just put it in my mouth and crunched down.

Suffice it to say, I'll try never to do THAT again. :wtf:
 
Sure, why not? I’ll try anything once. After all, lobsters, crabs and shrimp are arthropods — they’re basically bugs that swim. And they’re mighty tasty.

I’ve heard that fried grasshoppers taste like chicken . . .
 
I probably wouldn't eat live insects or spiders, but I might consider (if only as a thought experiment :lol:) eating them cooked or prepared as they are in some countries. I kind of agree with Encino Vampire that they probably wouldn't be too different from eating something like crabs, which are a favorite of mine.
 
When I was little, I ate these gigantic grasshoppers in Thailand. They were pretty tasty! But I wouldn't eat them now. Maybe the Mexican grasshoppers... I hear they taste really good! :lol:
 
You should try these tiny little shrimps saveche. They would net these tiny, little, fresh, water shrimps and sgueeze lime juice, and put fish sauce on them with some herbs like celantro, Thai mint, dice Thai chilies, dry chilies and toasted rice powders and eat them live. My aunts, mom and grandparents love this dish. It's called dancing shrimps! :bolian:

But I like Paula Deen's food and a lot of Thai street food that doesn't involve bugs, though! [laugh] Oh, but pass those organ meats to me! I love them!
 
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If it were a survival situation, probably. Otherwise, it would be unlikely, but I wouldn't necessarily be opposed. I've heard they don't taste very good, which is probably why I wouldn't. But if there was a way so it wouldn't feel like an insect while eating it, I might consider it.
 
I'd eat it if some native tribes offer it to me... But you have to be careful...people in the west sometimes don't have immunities to certain microbes on certain food and they can really ruin your day, or even put you six feet under...

Vultures have very acidic digestive juice...even really dangerous germs like anthrax and botchalism die in the stomach.
 
Just don't ask me to eat a cockroach. Or a praying mantis.

Mantises are too exotic, intelligent and badass to waste like that.
 
I'm sure we can breed some big fat juicy bugs that taste like fritos. Stirfry with some veggies and siriacha and I'm game.
 
Beats starving i guess.

This reminds me of the army horror stories my dad likes to tell.. he was in a recon unit and they got taught survival skills. Amongst them how to properly bite off/rip off a chicken's head to drink its blood and replenish salts you'd lose in the field. He said after a while you got used to it and when the time comes and you are forced to do it getting over it becomes easy.
 
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