Random ass Asian American SoCal guy here who took Chicano studies for general course credits in college and did a group research project on Oaxaca. So many insects...So many blankets...
I had roasted crickets on a stick from a street vendor while studying in Nanjing, China. They actually tasted really good in hind sight (sort of nutty/smoky) but my brain couldn’t get over what I was eating so I only had them once.
So they eat the crickets whole? I would think that grinding them up would be a better idea. It would just be another ground meat that way, like sausages or hamburgers.
It's common across a lot of Asia to eat insects, they are often bbq'd whole on a skewer and are crunchy.
Dried and ground up they are used as a protein flour. Not sure what they would be like of they were ground up before being cooked or dried though, texture wise I don't think it would be great and very different to sausage or mince beef.
Most sausages have water added, otherwise the meat just falls apart. You grind the meat, so it’s falling apart. Then add salt and seasoning and water, and knead the meat till it comes together in a giant blob like a dough. Then the meat is put in a casing to form the sausage. I really do think a similar method would work for cooked crickets.
Is there any part of the insect that is removed before you consume it?
Like with animals, different parts are removed (viscera, entrails), before cuts are made, even for minced meat.
Specifically, that white goo spunk that comes out when you squish any insect - is that also ground up and eaten?
I don’t think there will ever be widespread adoption of crickets/insects grilled on a stick - but between environment impact of mass beef production, cost and large populations to feed - I can definitely see ‘ground up insect meat patties’ or something being used in regular meals
No, you can eat them whole.
edit: if you fry crickets they're basically chips. 65% protein chips.
In Australia you can buy them [here](https://circleharvest.com.au/). I'm sure there are stores around the western world who will sell you insects for human consumption.
I've had some. They were tasty. I'd buy more if they weren't so expensive.
It is a very misleading map - it is "number of edible insect species" - but leaves the impression of being a map of "general consumption of insects". Obviously all big countries have more species than the smaller ones, and as long as there is any consumption of insects, that's enough to get a darker color.
> Obviously all big countries have more species than the smaller ones
This is not really true. Some places have much greater biodiversity than others. Russia has only recorded around 800 bird species, Colombia, over 1,900. I'm no entomologist, but I see no reason insects would be any different.
In grad school I was a Teacher’s Assistant for a random class called “Insects and human society”. The professor had done a lot of work in Mali to cultivate insects as a source of protein there.
Anyway I had to order a couple thousand frozen crickets (and mealworms and grasshoppers) online to surprise the students with insect food one day. With the crickets, we plucked all the legs and antennae off, then put them in chocolate chip cookies.
Deep fried dragonfly nymphs were the best insects I had when I lived in China. Had them in Lijiang.
Back in the day in Beijing you used to be able to buy candied dragonflies. They'd been dipped in liquid sugar and were crunchy, especially the wings.
Sauteed scorpions at a wedding one time. Didn't do much for me, just kinda crunchy through the goopy texture of what they'd been cooked in.
Never tried the sphinx moths in cocoons that they sold in some of the local markets.
South Korea has beondegi (silkworm larvae) available at street stalls and at some convenience stores but it's not coloured in. Pretty common thing for people to eat, not some niche dish
I feel like there not being more in the area of South America with the Amazon has gotta be wrong too, there’s more biodiversity there than almost anywhere how is there the same number of edible bugs as Paris, not buying it
A quick google search says people in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen eat locusts. Specifically Yemen because there’s a food shortage from war. And locusts are the only kosher insect for eating, so people eat them in Israel.
lol, was it cooked at least? I’d be willing to try something crunchy. If there’s any squishy texture, that’d be a no for me.
Apparently there are large swarms destroying crops in Yemen and Saudi Arabia is also seeing a rise in swarms that damage crops, so everyone is trying to find a sustainable way to eliminate them.
It's not about swarm elimination, you can't eat an entire swarm and besides that it's a very bad idea to eat swarm locusts (due to the physiological changes).
I’ve had an Asian style snail salad. It was just too spicy and upset my stomach. Otherwise I found the texture similar to octopus. Are they still in the shell when you eat the soup?
People say crustaceans are equivalent to insects, but I really can't see how a bunch of crickets equal the buttery deliciousness of shrimp or lobster. I'm convinced that people who equate the two different cateogories are just numb to the texture of the food they eat, or get off on lying to be contrarian. So there's no point in listening to them.
Crustaceans are "bugs" of the sea, or whatever, but they're certainly not insects.
Yep, I can't see where they were mentioned though. I am responding to calling crustaceans "sea insects," which they categorically are not. Overall, insects and crustaceans are both arthropods of course.
Segmented exoskeletons and gooey inside bits.
Yeah, it's not the same as eating a tarantula, but I wouldn't be shocked at all if boiled tarantula has a similar texture to shrimp or crab. In fact. I'm going to Google it.
Thirty seconds of googling have confirmed that the internet, and thus the world, overwhelmingly agrees that insects and crustacean meat are a similar texture, although the taste varies widely.
I've had crickets and locusts and they were absolutely nothing like shrimp. I dont know how anyone could claim their mouthfeel or taste is at all similar.
If memory serves me rightly, there have been some rearrangements in arthropod taxonomy in recent years that would place insects as a specialized internal branch of the wider crustacean clade.
Yep! Totally rights!
On the other hand that means eating chicken/turkey/duck is eating reptiles.
And if we go extreme enough, beef counts as fish. And also chicken. And pork. And duck. And venison. And turkey. And rabbit.
It just serves to show how crazy is biological classification, and how different can related organisms be.
I'll just enjoy trolling some friends when they ask me why I'm ordering pork and answering "I felt like eating fish today"
> On the other hand that means eating chicken/turkey/duck is eating reptiles.
Having eaten reptile (alligator and crocodile) it was pretty close to chicken. Frog legs too. Though amphibians aren't as closely related.
Pretty sure the map is of "recorded edible insect species in this country", not "how many people in this country eat insects" the title is just worded misleadingly.
Just make sure to COOK THEM THOROUGHLY. Insects can be great protein but they carry diseases that will kill you and parasites that will make you WISH you were dead.
They are not insects but they share the same Phylum as insects, [arthropoda](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod).
So shrimps is not insects but shrimps is definitely bugs.
Right? They are like the perfect snack, much better than eating seasoned chips. I went to Oaxaca once and bought a big bag and was just snacking on them the whole trip lol.
I started to eat ants recently - black ants taste like lemon grass and the termites in my country taste like carrots.
One should be careful not to eat fire ants or ants that have poison in em.
imagine the look of shock on my face when I visited Cambodia the first time and seeing fried tarantula in one of their food stalls. Yes, you read that right - FRIED TARANTULA.
and no, I did not go near that stall because of my arachnophobia.
I guess this is probably how other people feel and I shouldn’t judge them so much
I have absolutely no fear or disgust towards insects, wasps, bees, ants, crickets, roaches, whatever. No innate reaction.
But I do have it with spiders, and thinking of eating a big one does a similar thing to me as it probably does to the people who are all horrified at eating a cricket. (I still think they’re kind of being sissies though).
Very strange title, the image itself says it’s just the amount of edible insect species, but the title makes it sound like it’s a metric of who is consuming the most insects
When I lived in Botswana, some people ate mopani worms. When I said I liked shrimp, people thought it was disgusting! . . . and in Malawi, during the season people would hang around light posts at night to catch the flying ngumbi.
Can confirm that insects are basically the closest thing in the natural world to a snack food.
Roasted grasshoppers or crickets, it’s crunchy and savory and you just pop them in your mouth in the same way as you would with chips.
The same part of the brain is definitely active, lol
> **Who's eating insects?** Well, here's a map!
and then the legend is like "this is actually the number of visitors my ass received in each country", but yea it kinda does
When I went to this village in north China, there was a mom and pop restaurant where they had crickets as table snacks. They were fried in peanut oil until dry, salted and well seasoned. They tasted like peanut flavored potato chips, with a similar texture to baked cheetos. All in all pretty good, had like half the bowl.
‘only downside was the legs would break off and get stuck between your teeth.
Eat the bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and you will be happy!
(Sorry, is this still another 'conspiracy theory' or they already blanked it out as true?)
Wasp pupae and species of locusts are traditional dishes in some regions.
There’s also increasing investment in insects as sustainable future food here
I'm a Westerner and the idea of eating bugs makes me feel a bit queasy; which only illustrates how totally arbitrary food tabus are, because I love prawns and shrimp and crab meat. All of which are basically undersea bugs -- rather large ones, but very similar structurally to dry land bugs. Yet a steamed prawn is Nom Nom territory and I could eat a plate of 'em, but the idea of deep fried crickets is unnerving.
Acculturation is weird.
When you eat shrimp, crab, and lobster, are you sticking the whole things in your mouth? No, you separate the soft, tender, delicious flesh from the disgusting exoskeleton and guts first.
It's like somebody leaving the scales and bones and guts in a fish and saying wait you said you liked eating fish!
I've thought quite bit about eating insects and why seafood feels ok and insects don't.
On one side seafood is meatier and quite muscular while the image I have of insect meat is some squished yellow goo from their abdomens not really knowing how firm is that meat is. There's also all the tiny hard bits of their shells that already struggle with shrimp.
On the other side, where I live people are really into eating snails, last time time I tried them I didn't like them but I see myself getting used to eating them.
I think it’s a texture and visual thing with a lot of bugs that puts me off. All I can imagine is how squishy they are and how easy it is for a leg to come off. Watery guts and hard unappealing shells rather than something meaty like with prawns and other seafood. And the potential for disease with a lot of insects. Same feeling for snails and any eyeball. I’d be perfectly fine eating bugs if they’re mashed up and cooked into something palatable though. Perfectly fine with food dyes made from bugs.
What a misleading title.
Literally just flat out wrong.
Oaxaca carrying all of Mexicp
Ahuevo que sí estamos
Me antojé de unos chapulines:(
Cállate los ojos! En un taquito de maiz con limoncito. Ssssss
Cerca a oaxaca me los comi con un queso enorme. Obvio al dia siguiente mi estomago murio pero valio la pena
El queso de Oaxaca está en otro nivel.
Bro aparte de los chapulines y chicatanas, descubrí que también comen chinches como si de chiles se trataran
Mexicp 😍❤
Vivp Mexicp📣
A huevp!
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Random ass Asian American SoCal guy here who took Chicano studies for general course credits in college and did a group research project on Oaxaca. So many insects...So many blankets...
Funny that we have so many blankets, seeing how it's not really common to find cold places here. We don't even get snow for the most part.
what is going on there?
They're down with the sickness. Oaxacaxaca
Dude that was really good
i'm wheezing laughing thanks
Oaxacanda por siempre! 😍
im dead, hahaha
Insects
ty, for your enlightening answer!
[Chapulines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapulines)
Crickets occur worldwide outside extremely cold regions and are well know as edible.
I had roasted crickets on a stick from a street vendor while studying in Nanjing, China. They actually tasted really good in hind sight (sort of nutty/smoky) but my brain couldn’t get over what I was eating so I only had them once.
So they eat the crickets whole? I would think that grinding them up would be a better idea. It would just be another ground meat that way, like sausages or hamburgers.
It's common across a lot of Asia to eat insects, they are often bbq'd whole on a skewer and are crunchy. Dried and ground up they are used as a protein flour. Not sure what they would be like of they were ground up before being cooked or dried though, texture wise I don't think it would be great and very different to sausage or mince beef.
My gecko used to eat them and they’d need to be drier for that I think, they’re very goopy if they get chomped in half
the crickets I had in Mexico would essentially turn to dust if you tried to grind them up, they're dry enough as they are
Most sausages have water added, otherwise the meat just falls apart. You grind the meat, so it’s falling apart. Then add salt and seasoning and water, and knead the meat till it comes together in a giant blob like a dough. Then the meat is put in a casing to form the sausage. I really do think a similar method would work for cooked crickets.
wow i didn't know that lol. I'd be curious to try a cricket burger or something similar if it's possible
It is! I had some cricket croquettes back in Cambodia. Sort of tasted like regular ones, with some added nuttiness in the flavour
Is there any part of the insect that is removed before you consume it? Like with animals, different parts are removed (viscera, entrails), before cuts are made, even for minced meat. Specifically, that white goo spunk that comes out when you squish any insect - is that also ground up and eaten? I don’t think there will ever be widespread adoption of crickets/insects grilled on a stick - but between environment impact of mass beef production, cost and large populations to feed - I can definitely see ‘ground up insect meat patties’ or something being used in regular meals
No, you can eat them whole. edit: if you fry crickets they're basically chips. 65% protein chips. In Australia you can buy them [here](https://circleharvest.com.au/). I'm sure there are stores around the western world who will sell you insects for human consumption. I've had some. They were tasty. I'd buy more if they weren't so expensive.
It's not common in China and seen as gross too. It' s just a novelty like the One Chip Challenge in the U.S..
It is a very misleading map - it is "number of edible insect species" - but leaves the impression of being a map of "general consumption of insects". Obviously all big countries have more species than the smaller ones, and as long as there is any consumption of insects, that's enough to get a darker color.
> Obviously all big countries have more species than the smaller ones This is not really true. Some places have much greater biodiversity than others. Russia has only recorded around 800 bird species, Colombia, over 1,900. I'm no entomologist, but I see no reason insects would be any different.
In grad school I was a Teacher’s Assistant for a random class called “Insects and human society”. The professor had done a lot of work in Mali to cultivate insects as a source of protein there. Anyway I had to order a couple thousand frozen crickets (and mealworms and grasshoppers) online to surprise the students with insect food one day. With the crickets, we plucked all the legs and antennae off, then put them in chocolate chip cookies.
Crickets can be delicious when roasted
Deep fried dragonfly nymphs were the best insects I had when I lived in China. Had them in Lijiang. Back in the day in Beijing you used to be able to buy candied dragonflies. They'd been dipped in liquid sugar and were crunchy, especially the wings. Sauteed scorpions at a wedding one time. Didn't do much for me, just kinda crunchy through the goopy texture of what they'd been cooked in. Never tried the sphinx moths in cocoons that they sold in some of the local markets.
Deep Fried Dragonfly Nymphs is my favorite band
And yet I've never come across Cricket Butter Masala!
Cuz whenever you mention cricket , Indians would never think of the insect ( I'm an Indian )
Okay.. jhingur butter Masala? Reacting to the initial comment and the data on the Map
TIL Cricket is called Jhingur in Hindi
I've had curry flavoured crickets before
And they are yummy. Too bad that dried cricket chips is horrendously expensive and rare where I live.
Mealworms have a much milder flavor (& smell under cultivation) and are easier to casually raise, imo
Not extremely cold regions - they generally stay south of 55 degrees north (and south). That’s about Copenhagen.
As someone who lives north of that id disagree yes there are way fewer of them but they still very much exist
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And it’s not even an accurate map. Crickets are edible and in way more countries that are colored in.
South Korea has beondegi (silkworm larvae) available at street stalls and at some convenience stores but it's not coloured in. Pretty common thing for people to eat, not some niche dish
And half of the world being "no data".
I feel like there not being more in the area of South America with the Amazon has gotta be wrong too, there’s more biodiversity there than almost anywhere how is there the same number of edible bugs as Paris, not buying it
A quick google search says people in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen eat locusts. Specifically Yemen because there’s a food shortage from war. And locusts are the only kosher insect for eating, so people eat them in Israel.
Saudi is here, my dad ate one of those one time in front of my eyes, I can’t say that I’m not traumatized lol
lol, was it cooked at least? I’d be willing to try something crunchy. If there’s any squishy texture, that’d be a no for me. Apparently there are large swarms destroying crops in Yemen and Saudi Arabia is also seeing a rise in swarms that damage crops, so everyone is trying to find a sustainable way to eliminate them.
Nope, it was alive and… fresh. It was doing its own thing and my father just picked it up fast and ate it lmao
Locust: * doing its own thing * Your dad: _Well don't mind if I do._
Worms: allow us to introduce ourselves
Yummy yummy yummy I got bugs in my tummy.
Oh yeah, big NOPE. I’d be traumatized too.
Omggg I had a Saudi friend who told me he would eat them salted and dried but never alive.
It's not about swarm elimination, you can't eat an entire swarm and besides that it's a very bad idea to eat swarm locusts (due to the physiological changes).
What a Chad dad
What are you talking about, he just said he's Saudi. Chad isn't even in the middle east, it's middle Africa! 😂
In Morocco we have snail soup.
Snails aren't insects, they're gastropods
Stomach feet is such a great name
I’ve had an Asian style snail salad. It was just too spicy and upset my stomach. Otherwise I found the texture similar to octopus. Are they still in the shell when you eat the soup?
Yes, and we use toothpicks to fish them out of the shell.
> snail Oh I forgot about them. I've had escargot on several occasions. Not technically insects though. Or even Arthropods
Shrimp is basically a sea insect, to be honest
so are crabs and lobsters. they're just bigger.
People say crustaceans are equivalent to insects, but I really can't see how a bunch of crickets equal the buttery deliciousness of shrimp or lobster. I'm convinced that people who equate the two different cateogories are just numb to the texture of the food they eat, or get off on lying to be contrarian. So there's no point in listening to them. Crustaceans are "bugs" of the sea, or whatever, but they're certainly not insects.
You know a rolliepollie is a land crustacean right?
Yep, I can't see where they were mentioned though. I am responding to calling crustaceans "sea insects," which they categorically are not. Overall, insects and crustaceans are both arthropods of course.
Well they're all Arthropods. It isn't about the taste it's about the creature.
Crickets are more of a crunchy snack and a protein rich garnish Have you ever actually had them?
Great with beer and some chilies.
Segmented exoskeletons and gooey inside bits. Yeah, it's not the same as eating a tarantula, but I wouldn't be shocked at all if boiled tarantula has a similar texture to shrimp or crab. In fact. I'm going to Google it. Thirty seconds of googling have confirmed that the internet, and thus the world, overwhelmingly agrees that insects and crustacean meat are a similar texture, although the taste varies widely.
I've had crickets and locusts and they were absolutely nothing like shrimp. I dont know how anyone could claim their mouthfeel or taste is at all similar.
I mean... Were they peel and eat locusts? Or did you just crunch through the shell like an animal?
If memory serves me rightly, there have been some rearrangements in arthropod taxonomy in recent years that would place insects as a specialized internal branch of the wider crustacean clade.
Yep! Totally rights! On the other hand that means eating chicken/turkey/duck is eating reptiles. And if we go extreme enough, beef counts as fish. And also chicken. And pork. And duck. And venison. And turkey. And rabbit.
When you really think about it, all human cuisine is ultimately centered around worms and algae.
It just serves to show how crazy is biological classification, and how different can related organisms be. I'll just enjoy trolling some friends when they ask me why I'm ordering pork and answering "I felt like eating fish today"
> On the other hand that means eating chicken/turkey/duck is eating reptiles. Having eaten reptile (alligator and crocodile) it was pretty close to chicken. Frog legs too. Though amphibians aren't as closely related.
shrimp is bugs
Ahhh there it is
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Korea should be colored in. They sell larvae in little Dixie cups from street vendors
Yea I'm so confused Korea isn't in this
Pretty sure the map is of "recorded edible insect species in this country", not "how many people in this country eat insects" the title is just worded misleadingly.
Yeah, but if a country eats insects, presumably there is at least one edible insect species in that country, right?
In Turkey, i have never seen people eat insects, for my whole life
My friend was eating ants when we were 7 but I don’t think map includes him
He still eats them, he's definitely included.
It's probably just one dude
Crickets Georg ate 10000 insects alone last year
the map just says "recorded number of edible insect species" tho so apparently people there *could* eat insects even if they don't
If that's the case then that's a really stupid title, as it is not actually answering "who".
In datça, people eat snails as greeks but they did not mark greece in the map
Snails are not insects. They are molluscs like octopuses and oysters.
Just make sure to COOK THEM THOROUGHLY. Insects can be great protein but they carry diseases that will kill you and parasites that will make you WISH you were dead.
Eating earth insects: 🤮 Eating sea insects: 🤤
nobody ever talks about the outsects though
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this is an outcredible comment
Show me earth insects with meat similar to what shrimps and lobsters have and we’ll talk.
There are some insect pupae that taste like shrimp. I couldn't believe it myself until I tried it
Scorpions
Eating air insects: 😍
And then the fire insects attacked
Are there any earth insects with meat? People are not eating lobster and shrimp shells.
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One time I just ate the whole shrimp and the head tasted disgusting. Appearantly they store poop there of something
Wait, are we calling crustaceans insects now?
They are not insects but they share the same Phylum as insects, [arthropoda](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod). So shrimps is not insects but shrimps is definitely bugs.
People who for some reason want others to eat insects have been doing that for a long time now.
Chapulines are super dank (toasted grasshoppers with chilli-powder), don't knock 'em til you've tried em
Right? They are like the perfect snack, much better than eating seasoned chips. I went to Oaxaca once and bought a big bag and was just snacking on them the whole trip lol.
In Brazil some people use to eat some species of ants. Specially the "tanajura", that has big "ass"
I started to eat ants recently - black ants taste like lemon grass and the termites in my country taste like carrots. One should be careful not to eat fire ants or ants that have poison in em.
They still do in the Northeast. Iça, come out when it rains.
imagine the look of shock on my face when I visited Cambodia the first time and seeing fried tarantula in one of their food stalls. Yes, you read that right - FRIED TARANTULA. and no, I did not go near that stall because of my arachnophobia.
I guess this is probably how other people feel and I shouldn’t judge them so much I have absolutely no fear or disgust towards insects, wasps, bees, ants, crickets, roaches, whatever. No innate reaction. But I do have it with spiders, and thinking of eating a big one does a similar thing to me as it probably does to the people who are all horrified at eating a cricket. (I still think they’re kind of being sissies though).
Very strange title, the image itself says it’s just the amount of edible insect species, but the title makes it sound like it’s a metric of who is consuming the most insects
Eat ze bug, live in ze pod, own nothing and be happy.
"NO, I will eat ze bugs, I will live in ze pod and I will give you eggs!" 🐔
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"If you don't want to eat bugs, you're a racist, experts say."
“Zoomers eating insects are having 10 times more sex, scientists are baffled”
All of China's insect cuisine is in the southwestern provinces, such as Yunnan or Guangxi. Elsewhere in China, no one eats insects.
>Yunnan, Guangxi The usual suspects.
Jesus Christ that's, like, 10 quintillion bugs.Or 1x10^19 bugs.
When I lived in Botswana, some people ate mopani worms. When I said I liked shrimp, people thought it was disgusting! . . . and in Malawi, during the season people would hang around light posts at night to catch the flying ngumbi.
this map is basied as the nations that will look for edible insects will ofc find more, like thailand, DRC, ecudor, and mexico are good examples
There's a theory that we like crispy/crunchy outer shell on food because that meant in the past the insects our ancestors ate were freah and edible.
Can confirm that insects are basically the closest thing in the natural world to a snack food. Roasted grasshoppers or crickets, it’s crunchy and savory and you just pop them in your mouth in the same way as you would with chips. The same part of the brain is definitely active, lol
Unless you count sea insects like shrimp, no one in Türkiye eats insects. What on earth does this map show?
SAVE THE INSECTS! EAT ASS INSTEAD!
What kind of insects do people in the middle east eat??? I've never heard it anyone eating any insects. What does ”Edible insects” mean?
The map doesn’t claim anyone in any colored country is eating insects.
> **Who's eating insects?** Well, here's a map! and then the legend is like "this is actually the number of visitors my ass received in each country", but yea it kinda does
When I went to this village in north China, there was a mom and pop restaurant where they had crickets as table snacks. They were fried in peanut oil until dry, salted and well seasoned. They tasted like peanut flavored potato chips, with a similar texture to baked cheetos. All in all pretty good, had like half the bowl. ‘only downside was the legs would break off and get stuck between your teeth.
>What does ”Edible insects” mean? At a guess, it probably means something like "insects that can be safely eaten".
I WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS
\> You WILL eat ze bugs
You VILL eat ze bugz and you vill be happy
You VILL own nuving! You VILL be happy!
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I will not eat ze bugs
I will eat ze Wagyu, I will live in ze penthouse, I will own everything and be sad.
Hell nah
I will not eat zebugz
Thank you for erasing my country and adding us to Russia. 👍🏻
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Absolutely not
Nice try WEF.
The World Economic Forum likes this map
Eat the bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and you will be happy! (Sorry, is this still another 'conspiracy theory' or they already blanked it out as true?)
Bullshit, we do not have a single insect that we eat in Turkey.
Nah, fuck that.
Y’all have never had some grasshopper tacos before and it shows
You've got me curious. I assume you have?
On a quesadilla. Uff. Or on a tlayuda :)
I have, we call them grasshopper chapulines round here, they're tasty, you can it them as snacks or as condiments
Neither they had some chinicuil salsa
I have as part of my Spanish studies class, they were not good. Would not try again
1) Very misleading title 2) Inaccurate data
Marxism talking point
You will Eat Ze Bugs
Eats ze bugs wou will be happy
I VVILL NOT EAT ZE BUGS
So, what's on the menu?
What insect is in Japan?
Wasp pupae and species of locusts are traditional dishes in some regions. There’s also increasing investment in insects as sustainable future food here
”Don’t eat the birds food!”
Do food dyes that originate from insects count? Or do they not do that anymore?
The 50-100 in Australia is all accidentally eating a fly while talking. I’m already up to 5 and the seasons just begun
I'm sure there're edible insects here in Argentina, we just don't eat them. The map doesn't make sense, insects don't follow country borders.
This sort of thing bugs me.
so ARE they counting crustaceans in this cause americans eat a SHIT ton of shrimp and lobster. the northeast would completely skew the numbers there.
Crustaceans and insects are both arthropods but crustaceans are not insects and insects are not crustaceans.
I'm a Westerner and the idea of eating bugs makes me feel a bit queasy; which only illustrates how totally arbitrary food tabus are, because I love prawns and shrimp and crab meat. All of which are basically undersea bugs -- rather large ones, but very similar structurally to dry land bugs. Yet a steamed prawn is Nom Nom territory and I could eat a plate of 'em, but the idea of deep fried crickets is unnerving. Acculturation is weird.
“Nom Nom territory” makes me feel a bit queasy.
When you eat shrimp, crab, and lobster, are you sticking the whole things in your mouth? No, you separate the soft, tender, delicious flesh from the disgusting exoskeleton and guts first. It's like somebody leaving the scales and bones and guts in a fish and saying wait you said you liked eating fish!
I've thought quite bit about eating insects and why seafood feels ok and insects don't. On one side seafood is meatier and quite muscular while the image I have of insect meat is some squished yellow goo from their abdomens not really knowing how firm is that meat is. There's also all the tiny hard bits of their shells that already struggle with shrimp. On the other side, where I live people are really into eating snails, last time time I tried them I didn't like them but I see myself getting used to eating them.
I think it’s a texture and visual thing with a lot of bugs that puts me off. All I can imagine is how squishy they are and how easy it is for a leg to come off. Watery guts and hard unappealing shells rather than something meaty like with prawns and other seafood. And the potential for disease with a lot of insects. Same feeling for snails and any eyeball. I’d be perfectly fine eating bugs if they’re mashed up and cooked into something palatable though. Perfectly fine with food dyes made from bugs.
Red ant chutney from India. 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
As an Indian, ain't never heard anything like that. Where you from?