IHT: Bugs touted as emergency food source

mattduke · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Oct 28, 2005 Posts: 1093

I tried chicken feet at least four or five times before I caught on to the joke.

dinopello

xerces

What's wrong with bugs for food? They taste great and are more efficient to produce than pork or beef.

I've had roasted crickets, deep fried locusts, and scorpion kebabs.....they were all quite delicious!!!!
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manu · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 691

I guess there will be plenty of jobs in the future for the bug eaters. They can work in the garden as a scare crow and eat all of the insects for free!

efarmer · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 407

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2160.html

Bugs have been ready for the job as human food since
Day #1. (I think it was a Hillary bug too.) I have had
grasshoppers as well as eaten the bug du jour on my
bicycle rides. This plays right into my new invention,
I am putting a snack tray right under the bug lite on
my porch. This summer I will have entertainment,
fresh roasted snackage, and cold beer to boot.
Stay away from the June bugs, there is very little
white meat and they are too sloppy to eat in polite
company, and lick your lips often to get the bug legs
off them. You can enjoy good food without looking
like a slob.

I just want to be a microlivestock cowboy and ride
the range, all 800 square feet of it. My next invention
will be a harmonica that doesn't clog up with bug legs
when a feller is making music on the porch.

dohboi · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Dec 05, 2005 Posts: 1027

It's certainly easy to make fun of for those of us not used to eating them. But most traditional societies in the world include some kind of insects as part of their diet. Not eating these widely available sources of protein is another hugely wasteful aspect of Western culture. Kind of like living in Greenland and not wanting to switch from a cow-based to a fish-based diet. (I know, there are other analyses of the collapse of the Viking settlements in Greenland, but it still makes a good point.)

NTBKtrader · Intermediate Crude Joined: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 585

only locusts are kosher

yesplease · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Oct 03, 2006 Posts: 1859

Am I the only one who thinks ants taste like anise?
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