insects for dinner

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[dawp]

I think I'll pass on the roaches.

 

[Jeff7]

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Maybe they could turn them into some kind of hot dog thing. I've grown up thinking of insects as things to be tolerated, and on a number of occasions, killed on sight - not food. If they were "repackaged," maybe they'd be acceptably edible.

 

[DrPizza]

I'd be willing to try a variety of insects. If you think about it, crabs, lobsters, etc., are sort of like the insects of the sea. They're pretty darn tasty.

 

[acid45]

I just had an idea... A cook book for insects and seeeeeeeeemen.

Who is with me??




-Chris

 

[nineball9]

Hopefully Mr. Uchiyama is a better cook than he is an entomologist: spiders are not insects.
Wondering if this was a screw-up by a scientifically illiterate writer for Telegraph.co.uk (site in OP's link), I found a related article on The Japan Times Online which vacillates between the terms "bug" and "insect".

 

[DVad3r]

Sounds like he is making money for being different/extreme.

 

[AlienCraft]

What is "A natural diet for turkeys?"....

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: nineball9
Hopefully Mr. Uchiyama is a better cook than he is an entomologist: spiders are not insects.
Wondering if this was a screw-up by a scientifically illiterate writer for Telegraph.co.uk (site in OP's link), I found a related article on The Japan Times Online which vacillates between the terms "bug" and "insect".

Would "arthropods" be more suitable?

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I'd be willing to try a variety of insects. If you think about it, crabs, lobsters, etc., are sort of like the insects of the sea. They're pretty darn tasty.

True....though again, my concern is with the packaging. What happens to their prickly legs and various other spiny protrusions?

A lobster is big enough that you can just rip it open to get at the tasty insides. Insects seem to be eaten whole.
Maybe the next time there's a huge locust swarm, set up big nets, catch them, puree the whole lot, and extrude them into hot dogs. I think that's what they do anyway, except that various endotherms are tossed into the blender instead of insects.

 

[Tiamat]

My Indonesian friend calls all insects "small animals". It took me a while to figure out he was talking about gnats and not mice.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...r3ckYE&feature=related

 

[invidia]

Exquisite!