The Six-Legged Meat of the Future

[metalmania]

I like scorpions. So delicious.

 

[caddlad]

"Hind pointy thing jerky", yum!

Bus ass, FTW!

 

[CPA]

I guess I'm the only one who's thinking "F that, I'm never willingly going to put an insect in my mouth. Fucking disgusting"

 

[Bignate603]

Locusts are even kosher

 

[mwtgg]

I guess I'm the only one who's thinking "F that, I'm never willingly going to put an insect in my mouth. Fucking disgusting"

I'm there with you.

 

[jlee]

I'm there with you.

Me too. I eat shrimp sometimes but if I stop to think about it, it creeps me out a little.

 

[Born2bwire]

Finally! They can bring back the Krusty Ribwich!

 

[BabaBooey]

I ate some grasshoppers, they werren't that bad. Would try again.

Yup,I had some smaller deep fried ones that were pretty tasty,scorpions are pretty good also fried up..:thumbsup:

 

[yhelothar]

Me too. I eat shrimp sometimes but if I stop to think about it, it creeps me out a little.

This.
Oysters are friggen nastay too... especially the raw ones.
It's really no different than sticking a slimey slug in your mouth.

The idea of grasshoppers seems gross though. I don't see much meat in them, just juicy guts.

 

[prism]

How about instead of asking me to eat disgusting insects, people just stop having 8 kids?...

 

[Udgnim]

wikipediaed honeypot ants

had mind blown

wonder how tarantulas taste. Andrew Zimmern was absolutely scarfing them down when he had them in Cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9V4slMn9M

 

[Leros]

Insects and shrimps aren't really all that different if you think about it.

A lot of us eat bugs already and don't even realize it. First of all, there are tons of bugs ground up into things like ketchup and apple sauce. Secondly, there are companies in the US that provide ground up meal worms as a protein supplement which go into some mainstream products and only get listed in the ingredient list as "protein supplement".

 

[davmat787]

Would be good to know for a survival situation, but other than that probably not for me. There are other ways to get protein besides meat and insects anyway.

I know in Thailand and Indonesia, spiders are also routinely consumed.

 

[iGas]

Yeah, honey pot ants. Ate them in South Africa.

I have had honey pot ants & weaver ants eggs, and weaver ants eggs is better however it is not that tasty.

Out of the dozen or so nasty insects that I have tried; the tastiest insect has to be silkworm pupae (fried is much better than boiled), but IMHO it is at the very bottom of my things to eat list.

There are nastier things that I have tried at the Thailand bugs market were the giant waterbugs.

 

[Leros]

The question is, how can we order bulk insect meat? I mean, it is going to take many grasshoppers to reach alternator size.

Is 100,000 bulk?

http://www.flukerfarms.com/mealworms-live.aspx

 

[metalmania]

 

[Jeff7]

Insects and shrimps aren't really all that different if you think about it.

A lot of us eat bugs already and don't even realize it. First of all, there are tons of bugs ground up into things like ketchup and apple sauce. Secondly, there are companies in the US that provide ground up meal worms as a protein supplement which go into some mainstream products and only get listed in the ingredient list as "protein supplement".

I don't think I'd much care for the outsides of bugs. When I get shrimp, it's just the usual meaty insides and the usual bit of the tail. No antennae, no legs, no exoskeleton.

But, feed a bunch of termites into a big blender, extrude out some hot dog things, and I probably wouldn't mind at all. (Assuming they taste decent......hmm, idea. With termites, you could have them hickory-smoked and hickory-fed.)

 

[CRXican]

Yep, that's why nobody eats rice.

rice isn't a protein

 

[DangerAardvark]

fanny

 

[DangerAardvark]

I have had honey pot ants & weaver ants eggs, and weaver ants eggs is better however it is not that tasty.

Out of the dozen or so nasty insects that I have tried; the tastiest insect has to be silkworm pupae (fried is much better than boiled), but IMHO it is at the very bottom of my things to eat list.

There are nastier things that I have tried at the Thailand bugs market were the giant waterbugs.

Are those motherfucking seahorses-on-a-stick?

 

[Imp]

I have had honey pot ants & weaver ants eggs, and weaver ants eggs is better however it is not that tasty.

Out of the dozen or so nasty insects that I have tried; the tastiest insect has to be silkworm pupae (fried is much better than boiled), but IMHO it is at the very bottom of my things to eat list.

There are nastier things that I have tried at the Thailand bugs market were the giant waterbugs.

That huge brown slug thing eminds me of "Enemy Mine". Had nightmares about that as a kid, and turned me off bugs forever...

 

[RPD]

I've never tried any prepared insects, but I'd be willing to try something... boiled or fried... once..

 

[BoberFett]

wikipediaed honeypot ants

had mind blown

wonder how tarantulas taste. Andrew Zimmern was absolutely scarfing them down when he had them in Cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9V4slMn9M

My sister is in Cambodia at the moment, she just posted a video of herself on Facebook the other day eating a deep fried tarantula.

Better her than me is all I can say.

 

[Ichinisan]

... Although a lot of people don't think of them that way shrimp, crabs, lobsters, and a lot of seafood they eat are insects. The first Maine residents even considered lobsters trash food, the kind of thing you eat when you don't have anything else.

You know, crustaceans and insects aren't quite the same...right?

 

[CZroe]

"Hind Pointy Thing Jerky" = "Ovipositor Jerky"