Dion Blaster
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I know.
This bastard is grotesque but fuck is it delicious.
Delicious. Hahahaha!!!!
Fuck you for making me watch this
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Fuck you for making me watch this
alfredofroylan
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I'd love to eat some of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkhpRfqsI0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkhpRfqsI0
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Sutton Dagger
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What are you talking about, many people around the world eat insects because they enjoy them and are nutritious, not because they are scrounging around for nourishment...
I'll need some sources regarding the greater prevalence of diseases contracted by eating insects compared to meat, good luck with that one. Btw I don't actually eat insects, I said I would be willing to try them (eaten some before). I just like to correct logical fallacies and ignorance.
You're welcome. =D
Hahaha, glad I'm not the only one to think that on that image. I couldn't eat the larve. Like in the OP's photo it's pretty apparent they're insects because of the multi-bumped texture.
I understand the rationale behind eating bugs, but when I look at that dish my brain can't help but think "You have bugs in your food."
I still think mushing them into something unrecognizable like sausage is the way to go. Just NEVER tell us what it is. Either that, or just sugarcoat it in some way, like "You've eaten worse in school cafeterias."
I still think mushing them into something unrecognizable like sausage is the way to go. Just NEVER tell us what it is. Either that, or just sugarcoat it in some way, like "You've eaten worse in school cafeterias."
Silkworm larvae is delicious, bros.
What does this taste like, if it even relates well to anything? It looks alright to me. What's the texture like, too?
That was amazing.
Thug Waffle
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Fuck it. I'm in.
The future.
The future.
It looks like a dog.
Don't think you really know about evolution very well. Also, if you control the thing's whole life cycle, whatever reasons you'd have to not eat insects (disease vector mainly) evaporate. Get with the future!
Fixed for the truth. The absolute truth.
Delicious. Hahahaha!!!!
F U for this GIF. *runs off to vomit*
Chewy, and . . . nutty? Hard to think of a reference for the taste itself.
The canned version is vile, so the review above isn't wrong. Good stuff when fresh, though.
You don't eat shrimp whole. There's an easily removed meaty portion that you eat.I really don't understand why I love shrimp but can't eat insects
Nothing but a sea bug
Bugs in western culture are associated with food that has spoiled, turned rotten, etc.
The act of eating something that ingests expired food and is generally seen as a pest just doesn't sit well with people who can go spend a few bucks on a meal that does NOT contain that stuff.
I agree with some of the earlier posters in this thread though - the same western culture that thinks eating bugs is disgusting will happily spend big bucks eating gigantic underwater bugs , maybe it's just a size thing ? if you could catch dog and cat sized pill bugs in the desert or something would people eat them then ?
The act of eating something that ingests expired food and is generally seen as a pest just doesn't sit well with people who can go spend a few bucks on a meal that does NOT contain that stuff.
I agree with some of the earlier posters in this thread though - the same western culture that thinks eating bugs is disgusting will happily spend big bucks eating gigantic underwater bugs , maybe it's just a size thing ? if you could catch dog and cat sized pill bugs in the desert or something would people eat them then ?
gwynplaine
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i ate caterpillars before so i'd do it. they tasted really earthy.
the only concern i would have is how much of it is absorbed by your body - like the exoskeletons seem to be a bulk of it. i read somewhere things like beef tendons aren't well absorbed by the body so they're nutritionally empty. don't know if that's true but i guess there would be same issues here.
the only concern i would have is how much of it is absorbed by your body - like the exoskeletons seem to be a bulk of it. i read somewhere things like beef tendons aren't well absorbed by the body so they're nutritionally empty. don't know if that's true but i guess there would be same issues here.
JetBlackPanda
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Omg that was awesome. Lol
SiteSeer
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all the disgustingly wretched talk of eating insects was worth it for this.
JetBlackPanda
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432 hours? Damn I'm hungry now. dollar menu bitches.
I find it very amusing that people don't know that they eat some rather...unorthodox food items. Shellac coating on candy? Resin from the lac bug. Castoreum (AKA natural flavoring?) Anal sac juice from beavers. Cochineal, or charmine food coloring? Dried and ground up cochineal bugs.
Dat moneyshot.
Delicious. Hahahaha!!!!
Callibretto
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As long as it is dead, cooked, and not moving, I'd try it. The last thing I want is the feel of something moving struggling to escape touching my mouth cavity and tongue as I eat my food.
diggmcbadass
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If they processed these motherfuckers into something that looked nothing like an insect and then used that substance to produce some other type of food, sure, I'd probably eat it. But eating it while it even slightly resembles itself seems impossible for me.
Wiktor
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Ermm..wrong. 80% of world's nations eat them. It's just few western countries that have problem with it.
I hope the move to insect meat will increase. It would be a good start to just make meatballs/burgers out of them to help with adaptation in western countries.
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I would maybe try it if you shredded them up and made bug mincemeat or something, but seeing them in their original form would just gross me out, honestly.
in the Island of Sardinia (Italy) they make a variety of cheese with maggots in it.
Some people say it's really tasty, I personally find it revolting.
Some people take the maggots out of the cheese before serving it, but some other times you actually get to see the maggots jumping in front of you and moving inside the cheese
the name of the cheese is "casu marzu" which basically means "rotten cheese"
http://youtu.be/GfzPzPkSX3s?t=3m20s
and if that was not completely clear, you eat the maggots alive
Some people say it's really tasty, I personally find it revolting.
Some people take the maggots out of the cheese before serving it, but some other times you actually get to see the maggots jumping in front of you and moving inside the cheese
the name of the cheese is "casu marzu" which basically means "rotten cheese"
http://youtu.be/GfzPzPkSX3s?t=3m20s
and if that was not completely clear, you eat the maggots alive
I want some.
It's pretty ironic considering that a lot of those maggots found in sailors' biscuits were actually vital in providing protein for those malnutritioned seamen
And on, you really think that insects farmed in clean conditions would be a significant risk for disease? It's not like they're proposing you to eat insects caught on the street.
Come a few decades, it might not even be a matter of choice. Prices for things like beef and pork will skyrocket as it steadily becomes less viable to produce them. And it'll be even worse for the already depleted fish hatcheries.
Parakeetman
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The future people, the future...
Femmeworth
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Nope nope nope.
It's hilarious how people act like eating insects is icky or gross, but eating chopped up pig intestines isn't.
For comparison, here's a beef tapeworm.
Blood sausage will always taste and look gross though.
Insects generally don't carry human parasites or transmissible diseases even in the wild, probably because we generally don't eat insects. Unless the insect farm's on a garbage heap, they probably won't be diseased.
For comparison, here's a beef tapeworm.
Funky Papa
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Delicious. Hahahaha!!!!
*faints*
red snes nuk3chan
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no one ever taught me insects were disgusting. I might eat ants, since they're nice, but flies, crickets, etc. no.
Shrimp, lobster, crab and other crustaceans look beautiful. Land insects look ugly, if they were bigger it would be as disgusting.
I hope the move will be to lab grown meat not insect meat.
Alligatorjandro
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nope
it looks like he just popped a giant pimple in his mouth.
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