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Why don't you try it and report back? I'll be waiting.A question has been bugging me about posts like this: how is that any different than eating crab, shrimp, or lobster?
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Why don't you try it and report back? I'll be waiting.A question has been bugging me about posts like this: how is that any different than eating crab, shrimp, or lobster?
I'll have a jab at it.....A question has been bugging me about posts like this: how is that any different than eating crab, shrimp, or lobster?
I eat a lot less meat than I used to. So it goes a lot further. I put some meat in a "stew" and that flavors the stew ingredients.I'll have a jab at it.....
Most Western people like high meat-to-effort ratio. With that seafood, we have to do a bit of work, but the meat return is decent. It's also why we have boneless chicken and hamburger.
My wife, on the other hand, she'll eat shrimp whole, eventually spitting out a single lump of exoskeleton, she'll eat all of a fish, spitting out bones as she goes. I suspect, bugs wouldn't be off the menu for her.
However, you eat bugs, you have a low meat ratio, and you're eating the poo too. So, just from Westerner's POV, I think we'd have serious hangups about it. We've been spoiled, and most of us won't consider changing.
One Andouille sausage, sliced up into small chunks, goes a long ways in a pot of Jambalaya or other Creole dish. It is healthier than eating a lot of meat and just as satisfying to me.
I don't know, why don't you try some and tell us what the difference is?
Personally, I like Dungeness crab, and shrimp in general, but lobster seems bland to me.
I am guessing, but I don't think bugs would be anywhere near as tasty
Ants are very sour, like vinegar. Crickets and grasshoppers taste like peanuts or roasted grain. Never ate spiders, though I have seen them sold roasted on a stick. My better half eats crickets all the time.Why don't you try it and report back? I'll be waiting.
I spit them outPlus, how many here have swallowed bugs riding a bike or motorcycle?
Go to a Seattle Mariners game. They serve grasshoppers at the food stands.People's food choice willingness is directly related to how hungry a person is. People who've starved a few days will eat things that they previously would have been unwilling to.
In the US, I don't see bugs being part of the menu unless other foods are just flat out unavailable. If simple things like peanut butter and rice become so prohibitively expensive that people in mass are unable to afford it, I see society having a significant event long before people are commonly eating these "last resort foods" like bugs.
Seattle isn't rightGo to a Seattle Mariners game. They serve grasshoppers at the food stands.
I will not disagree with that at all.Seattle isn't right
To some extent, this can be an aging thing. Your digestive tract sometimes cannot take as much heavy protein when you get old. Or you might have downright gut problems, as I've developed. Not only is that a physical intolerance, it can also be a mental one. You can develop an aversion to certain foods just by thinking about them. So I don't eat as much meat as I used to. Mostly smaller portions.I eat a lot less meat than I used to.
I started not eating as much meat about 20+ years ago. I love meat and I would eat more if it didn't have an impact on my health. But I decided I was pigging out on it and it would just be better if I didn't eat near as much meat as I used to (about 2-3X what I do now, or more).To some extent, this can be an aging thing. Your digestive tract sometimes cannot take as much heavy protein when you get old. Or you might have downright gut problems, as I've developed. Not only is that a physical intolerance, it can also be a mental one. You can develop an aversion to certain foods just by thinking about them. So I don't eat as much meat as I used to. Mostly smaller portions
Yes and no - kind of."Food shortage" these days is more like "money shortage" for many people, what with inflation going on.
Oh yes, like barbeque pork spare ribs, which contain a lot of tasty fat. I loved to eat the burned fat edge on a steak.I started not eating as much meat about 20+ years ago. I love meat and I would eat more if it didn't have an impact on my health. But I decided I was pigging out on it and it would just be better if I didn't eat near as much meat as I used to (about 2-3X what I do now, or more).
Indoctrination is slow and insidious. A lot of "regular" things today were at times in societal history very hotly contested issues.Go to a Seattle Mariners game. They serve grasshoppers at the food stands.