The Six-Legged Meat of the Future

[yhelothar]

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

looks like they taste like chicken. :awe:

 

[Jeff7]

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

Close enough for the sake of this discussion. Exoskeleton, antennae, long pointed legs, all that fun stuff, and all are members of Arthropoda.

 

[SagaLore]

They've already given the new bulk insect product a name, "Soylent Red". And so it begins...

 

[IceBergSLiM]

But but but!!! Food shortages!!!! Hysteria!!!!

 

[IceBergSLiM]

can they be formed into patties and served with melted cheese?

 

[SagaLore]

can they be formed into patties and served with melted cheese?

Yes. But the cheese is actually lightly steamed grub paste.

 

[Bateluer]

This is going to help the human race when the Insect Overlords invade Earth.

 

[Dacalo]

Are those motherfucking seahorses-on-a-stick?

LMAO, I laughed out loud in my cube. :awe:

 

[ElFenix]

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.

mmm oysters

case of cold beer, a sack of oysters, some sliced lemons and some cocktail sauce. that's a good afternoon.

 

[vi edit]

I'm not against the concept, just the presentation. But I'm that way with conventional protein sources too. I'm not big on fish served "head on" still staring at me on a plate. But I'll rock a seared slab of tuna like no other. I love pork shoulder but not a big fan of the "head on a plate with an apple in it's mouth" either.

So with bugs...I guess if it's ground up in a tofu style chunk and tossed in a curry or something I'll try it.

 

[davmat787]

mmm oysters

case of cold beer, a sack of oysters, some sliced lemons and some cocktail sauce. that's a good afternoon.

Oh I love oysters too. I am fortunate to be able to buy them fresh from Taylor Seafoods on the Hood Canal of the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most reputable oyster harvesters around. Mike Rowe did an episode with Taylor too.

I love em off a BBQ as well.

 

[iGas]

Are those motherfucking seahorses-on-a-stick?

Yes they are and they are rather nice eating when roasted.

 

[iGas]

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

Those are boiled silkworm pupae.

3 weird things that made me ill were bo hoc (liquefied & fermented road kill, salted) that I had in a small hill tribe in Central Vietnam, chili grasshoppers in Mexico (terrible stomach ache, and diarrheal), and fresh live sea urchin in a small Native West Coast tribe in BC Canada (vomit in roughly 5~10 second after I had it).

Can you guys identify this: The most disgusting thing ever!

 

[prism]

I will gladly, GLADLY stay "ethnocentric" or whatever the politically correct hippies want to call it and stay away from any and all things posted in this thread. If you were raised in a third-world country and want to keep eating things I as a westerner find disgusting, more power to you, and that means more tasty beef for me.

 

[yhelothar]

mmm oysters

case of cold beer, a sack of oysters, some sliced lemons and some cocktail sauce. that's a good afternoon.

I probably didn't eat it right.
Sashima was gross when I first had it. Now I know how to put in the right blend of soysauce and wasabi and it's so friggen amazing.

But oysters are still no different than eating slugs. ()

 

[Howard]

I probably didn't eat it right.
Sashima was gross when I first had it. Now I know how to put in the right blend of soysauce and wasabi and it's so friggen amazing.

But oysters are still no different than eating slugs. ()

You're not supposed to need soy sauce and wasabi to eat sashimi, but I suppose if it gets you to eat it...

 

[Born2bwire]

I probably didn't eat it right.
Sashima was gross when I first had it. Now I know how to put in the right blend of soysauce and wasabi and it's so friggen amazing.

But oysters are still no different than eating slugs. ()

I love oysters. But I find shellfish can be pretty finicky. They can have sand, muddy taste or other undesirable flavors when off. Getting a good and fresh supply is important. Practically anytime I have oysters out here I get sick from them so I abstain. There are one or two oyster bars where I can get raw oysters but the prices are exorbitant considering that they have to ship these in from the States or Australia.

 

[Lithium381]

hopefully noone confuses those honeyants with another species, the one that will chew off your tongue and come back for more

 

[ElFenix]

Oh I love oysters too. I am fortunate to be able to buy them fresh from Taylor Seafoods on the Hood Canal of the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most reputable oyster harvesters around. Mike Rowe did an episode with Taylor too.

I love em off a BBQ as well.

how much are they up there?

for thanksgiving we had a boat sack (a big burlap coffee sack, probably 100lbs of coffee) for about ~$75. about 200 oysters in there iirc.

 

[IGBT]

if you eat fast food you've been eating bugs for years.

 

[jlee]

rice isn't a protein

/facepalm

Pick one.

 

[yhelothar]

if you eat fast food you've been eating bugs for years.

You mean McDeez 100% beef claim is a lie? ZOMG! I've been cheated all these years.

 

[PingSpike]

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"

Obviously that is the first reaction, but do you eat lobster, shrimp or clams? Oysters? Those are all the same or possibly more gross, but everyone eats them all the time so they got over it. Lobster is considered a high end food, but for most of history it was considered garbage food for poor people.

Its actually sort of shocking that insects aren't consumed more, if you think about it. They should be easy to grow and you can just grind them up to form different pastes or something.

 

[Jeff7]

Obviously that is the first reaction, but do you eat lobster, shrimp or clams? Oysters? Those are all the same or possibly more gross, but everyone eats them all the time so they got over it. Lobster is considered a high end food, but for most of history it was considered garbage food for poor people.

Its actually sort of shocking that insects aren't consumed more, if you think about it. They should be easy to grow and you can just grind them up to form different pastes or something.

Yup. It's all culture. Tuna and cow are ok to eat, but not dolphin or cat. Go somewhere else, and cows are sacred, or dolphin could be on the menu. Toward the other end of the scale, we have no issue with stashing some fungus in various foods (bread and blue cheese, for instance). Or we'll eat mushrooms, which do best when grown in damp excrement.

It's all arbitrary.

 

[hanoverphist]

i like eating bugs

pic related

mmm giant sea cockroach

mmmm... mudbugs...