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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, you eat bugs. You just don't know it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it either, but head says no no and yes yes.

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[–] UrPartnerInCrime 4 points 10 months ago

There's definitely a difference though. Only water bugs will kill me if eaten

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's all about presentation. I can prep crickets in a way that almost anyone will eat them. Feed them oatmeal for a few days, then slow roast, powder in a blender, combine with sesame oil, salt, and spices, stuff it into wonton wrappers and steam. If nobody knows what's in them they disappear. But if I do fried crickets like the ones the Korean street vendors sell, very few non-Asians would touch them.

A lot of insects can be prepared using familiar presentations and the unsuspecting will devour them. I found ant cookies delicious - like a molasses cookie. And ground rolly-pollies (sowbug/pillbug/armadillium) could be used to make shrimp shumai and nobody would be the wiser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Chocolate covered giant ants are lovely! Sold in Selfridges (UK).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I own a bar in south western Saskatchewan. The other night I pulled the jar out of jalapeno garlic fried crickets i got offn Amazon, roughly 3/4s of the patrons gave them a try.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well to be fair, land bugs have harder shell, and are therefore more uncomfortable to eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

relevant xkcd (y'all already know which one it is)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What does fish shit smell like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I want a bug burger and I want it NOW

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