Anyone ever ate insects?

[R0rschach]

No? Think again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
check the "Unintentional entomophagy" section. t:
You like honey? You do know it's bee vomit. Right?

"When reared at 30°C or more, and fed a diet of equal quality to the diet used to rear conventional livestock, house crickets show a food conversion twice as efficient as pigs and broiler chicks, four times that of sheep, and six times higher than steers when losses in carcass trim and dressing percentage are counted."

^^Does this make sence?

Why isn't the most abundant food source not on the menu?
Of all the living creatures we eat, insects are the group we should be eating but we instead aren't. I only speak for the west ofcourse.
In asia and for instance mexico you can buy insects at almost any market place.


And now for the point I wish to make.
With an ever growing population, globally.
And with no end in sight of the growth nor any self control to reduce or stabilize the population.

Will insects be on the menu in the near future?




ps I don't eat insects

 

[Ice-man]

No? Think again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
check the "Unintentional entomophagy" section. t:
You like honey? You do know it's bee vomit. Right?



^^Does this make sence?

Why isn't the most abundant food source not on the menu?
Of all the living creatures we eat, insects are the group we should be eating but we instead aren't. I only speak for the west ofcourse.
In asia and for instance mexico you can buy insects at almost any market place.


And now for the point I wish to make.
With an ever growing population, globally.
And with no end in sight of the growth nor any self control to reduce or stabilize the population.

Will insects be on the menu in the near future?




ps I don't eat insects

yea i knew honey was bee regurgitation, thats why i dont eat it anymore


but just the sheer thought of my meal being insects, i dont think i could stomach eating it.

 

[PyroChamber]

Honey is bee vomit huh? Never knew that, thank God I'm not much of a honey person.

 

[DBella]

I've eaten roasted grasshoppers and crickets. They're not that bad, actually.

 

[jaguarr]

I LOOOVE bee puke! Mmmmm!

jag

 

[terry78]

Jerry Seinfeld's new animated Bee Movie actually takes on that topic. It's not really that more disgusting than drinking milk, which basically comes from providing a cow with foreplay.

 

[CyberFaust]

the average chocolate bar has 4 insect legs in it!
yummy!

 

[terry78]

None of you has ever tried chocolate covered ants?

 

[Badger]

Honey is great and great for you (in proper amounts), puke or not.

 

[Badger]

None of you has ever tried chocolate covered ants?

No, however I did eat a small live crawdad on a dare once.

 

[BRUTAL]

I had peanut fried grasshoppers and deep fried ants... what's the big deal?

 

[Mee]

I've never eaten them on purpose.


But like, riding a bike, fly goes down your throat...I've done that.

 

[Duende Verde]

I've eaten fried escamoles (ant larvae) in tacos, also fried hormiga embarazada (pregnant ant, it's called that because it looks like it) and grasshoppers with lime and chili pepper.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

My Mom put a pitcher of grape juice in the freezer, so it was cold, with fun-to-crunch ice flecks in there.

I got a glass, began crunching on the ice, and one of the ice flecks was warmer than the others.

It was a fly.

 

[jaguarr]

<Sam Elliott>Ant larvae. It's what's for dinner.</Sam Elliott>

jag

 

[Riven]

yea i knew honey was bee regurgitation, thats why i dont eat it anymore

but just the sheer thought of my meal being insects, i dont think i could stomach eating it.

People are so weird about food. They'll gladly eat the fat bloodied meat from a dead cow's rear end, but horses are off limits and eating dogs is barbarous. Folks eat yoghurt and cheese, which is basically milk gone sour and moldy, but honey is disgusting cause a bee coughed it up. Everyone gladly munches on burgers and other fast food that gets made from pig entrails and cow guts, but most would wince at a piece of liver or an oyster or something. And nobody ever thinks twice when licking a lollypop, even though it's artificial flavor chemicals injected into ground and pulped cattle bones.

whatever...

If I ever get offered a cricket covered with chocolate, I'll definitely eat it. I do not get what the big deal is...

 

[ico]

I used to eat tons of insects when I was a kid. Worms, Beatles, Spiders, Ants, anything.

 

[Mee]

My Mom put a pitcher of grape juice in the freezer, so it was cold, with fun-to-crunch ice flecks in there.

I got a glass, began crunching on the ice, and one of the ice flecks was warmer than the others.

It was a fly.

And you skipped Mother's Day that year?

 

[fangrl06]

The average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep in a life time.
^I know lots of useless info.

 

[jaguarr]

The average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep in a life time.
^I know lots of useless info.

If I told my wife that she would never sleep again. Ever.

jag

 

[Spider-Bite]

I ate some cheese covered grasshoppers once. Kind of a boring tasteless crunchy snack.

 

[Star]

they sell chocolate covered ants at specially candy stores here? and salted grasshoppers and chocolate covered larvae... its too gross for me to try though

 

[Deep Thinkin'!]

... I might have had a bug once but I didn't know about it.... does that count?

 

[El ASESINO]

I have eaten chapolines (grasshoppers)
I eat them as if they were popcorn. Very delicious

 

[Carcharodon]

If bugs are cooked they're fine; I couldn't eat them raw and juicy.