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02-03-2012, 03:21 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Juicious Maximus III
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Eating Bugs and other Creepy Crawlies
Although I'm not from a insect/arachnid eating culture, as someone who works with insects, I've often been curious as to what it would be like. I've got some ingrained reservations about it, but they're not based on any rationality so I'm prepared to overcome it. I greatly enjoy eating edible crabs and shrimps and they're a bit like large insects, right? So .. Who's had the pleasure of trying out this (to me) exotic snack and how was it?
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02-03-2012, 03:53 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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I've never thought of crustaceans as insects, not once. The prospect of eating something that was alive, and gooey doesn't sound all that appealing to me. Every decade or so we get thousands and thousands of cicadas that come through my parts, and people grill them up, dry them out, fry them, or just eat them raw. I might take a crack at an insect that was dried out, but even thinking about eating one raw makes me gag a bit.
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02-03-2012, 05:47 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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i'm actually very interested to try it out
sad to say, there's no market for that here i need to travel to Cambodia for that - it seems they have fried tarantulas, worms, and other assorted bugs and arachnids |
02-03-2012, 10:26 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Very interested in trying it as well. I might start with the particular creepy crawly that scares me the most – scorpion. In China, scorpion on a stick is common. In the United States, a few candy shops sell what are known as scorpion suckers. They're also for sale online.
The concept, essentially, is a scorpion sealed in candy coating. Strikes me more as a novelty than anything, the taste probably comes second to the fact that you're eating a lolly with a scorpion in it. |
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Nevertheless, I'd be happy to try a scorpion. I disected a cockroach once and I was surprised at how fatty it was. Basically, its guts were just a bit of intestine going through a big chunk of white fat. So, since fat is rich in energy, I figured cockroaches could be regarded high quality food at least the ones we were working on!
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For me, cockroaches simply wouldn't be on the menu. For one, I am deathly afraid of the things. I won't even kill them, they frighten me too much. It's strange considering they can't even bite, or atleast they don't intend to. Second, they're generally considered to be "unclean" bugs. Most people consider them filthy and disease ridden. True or not, I doubt I could get over my cockroach stigma. |
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02-03-2012, 11:44 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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I read that maggots taste of whatever you feed them.
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