How are chapulines supposed to taste?

[fuzzybabybunny]

I've got a pile in front of me and they taste pretty sour. Does this mean they were pickled or preserved somehow before frying? Regardless, they are still really good.

 

[spaceman]

in there an inside joke to gross me outta dinner tongiht on AT
i havent eaten today
after this and mizzous thread
i dont want to

 

[lsv]

What are you a 10 year old girl?

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Grasshoppers? D:

 

[lxskllr]

That's the lead you're tasting...

Recently concerns over lead poisoning in foods imported to the US from the Zimatlán area of Oaxaca, Mexico, including chapulines, have come to light in public health and media sources[3]. In California, an investigation of lead poisoning among community residents in Monterey County indicated that the largest risk for lead poisoning (defined as having an elevated lead level of 10 µg/dl of blood or greater, as defined by the US Centers for Disease Control) was among residents who were from or reported eating imported foods from the Zimatlan area (compared to residents who were from other parts of Oaxaca, Mexico). Contaminated chapulines were found for sale in the community in California and have also been identified in samples from Zimatlan, Oaxaca [4]. Lead levels in the chapulines have been seen as high as 300 times the maximum recommended lead dose for children under the age of 6 and pregnant women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapulines

 

[spaceman]

What are you a 10 year old girl?

nah this carried over from Bourdain being a dick last night
his show is turning into Andrew Zimmern..its all gross shit
look it
i dont eat for 3 days and id mow these hoppers and some frogs legs or some other 3rd world barf bag
i aint there//i got a rough stomach and i keep running into these stealth grosso threads.

 

[preslove]

I once said that Nick is the king of the trolls. I was wrong. FZB is actually Lord of all Trolldom.

 

[moshquerade]

I've got a pile in front of me and they taste pretty sour. Does this mean they were pickled or preserved somehow before frying? Regardless, they are still really good.

Pic?

 

[potion]

Are you Asian?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Pic?

Ate them all already.

 

[moshquerade]

Ate them all already.

Pic of them coming back up?

Actually, you, being a photographer, I am surprised you didn't take a picture of that plate of grasshoppers. Or do you have them often?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Pic of them coming back up?

Actually, you, being a photographer, I am surprised you didn't take a picture of that plate of grasshoppers. Or do you have them often?

It was my first time, but honestly, I've taken over a thousand photos today already. Don't want to take more... and they were smaller than I'd imagined. But super potent flavorful. They're something you definitely eat one at a time with water.