saves hundreds
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Not the hundreds of crickets.
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Unlikely to be money. Raising insects is, by definition, raising animals. They need to eat too, along with shelter.
Ditch the crickets, eat the legumes. Legumes won't run away. π«π«
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I think the study didn't say what you think it does. The solid filtrate diet worked according to the summary, and doesn't conflict with feed for chickens. There are vegan and vegetarian options of course, but saying they aren't economic isn't true.
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In Mexico, chapulines are a bit of an exotic delicacy from old Aztec cuisine, there's a place in my town that has them, heated and tossed on a grill with no oil, then served on a corn tortilla with black beans, fresh chopped onions and cilantro, topped with a lime squeeze and green jalapeΓ±o salsa.
They are delicious.
Oh god that sounds disgusting! How can you eat that? I don't think I could even get to the point of swallowing, let alone chewing it up. I feel a little nauseous just thinking about it. Cilantro?!
Youβre sounding awfully judgemental for a mutant!
It always makes me so disappointed. I have tried cilantro probably a hundred times now always thinking yeah, it makes things better for others it has to taste fine this time. So I use it when I make tacos or anything if someone else is eating with me. Yet every time, still tastes like fucking soap. Lol. I really want it to not... Not sure why.
I think itβs understandable that you want something to taste nice, especially if others seem to enjoy it and you feel like youβre missing out.
If you want to know βwhyβ it tastes like soap it is literally genetics. You have a mutation to your taste buds!
I also have a fun one, I can taste Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol, which most people canβt. I can taste it in quantities as low as 10 parts per trillion.
It is a shitty superpower because it makes water that is perfectly clean and safe to drink taste like mud.
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Uh, yeah, exactly. I'm like wat. Chapulines are delicious. At worst they kinda taste like walnuts to me. If people ate them blindfolded in a taco with other ingredients, I don't imagine too strong of a reaction.
Wish there was a place to try this in the US.
If you're ever in Austin, Tx, there's a place called Mexta that serves them as a side. Best ones I've had outside Mexico.
Actually just looked it up and they same some places that serve this in my state. Probably going tonight.
There is! Everything they listed is readily available in your local market, and crickets can be purchased in bulk at pet stores.
I've eaten crickets. Just not this dish. The ones from the pet store taste bad btw.
Pro cricket snack tip: it's the cricket feed. Keep them for about a week and feed them straight fruits and vegetables, like zucchini, apples, lettuce, squash, etc. Basically anything with a fairly neutral flavor. Then pull the food about 24 hours before you eat them, so they'll clear their poop out.They'll taste much better.
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I would fucking love to get my protein from insects - they're prohibitively expensive.
Also, outrage bait.
Yeah, I was curious to see the comments because I think OP was expecting something similar to facebook or reddit. But I feel like most people here recognize this for the lame rage bait that it is. Only idiot Fox News watching conservatives freak out about this shit.
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Crickets and other insects meant for consumption are actually pretty expensive, so that cant be real. There is so much cheaper food that you would actually want to eat.
I love trying out insect based food, and every time it was a lot more expensive, drier, and tasted worse than other options, so I cant imagine something like this actually going mainstream.
They are really expensive because no one is buying them but people who have time and money to spend on changing their habits.
BUT! They are actually pretty cheap to raise yourself. Crickets can eat leftovers and parts of vegetable you sometimes don't want to eat like potato peels. We used to do that to feed our lizards and spiders at home. I guess that preparing them for human consumption would be a bit longer (drying and grinding them, or whatever), but still much cheaper than store-bought meat.
Man I can't help but cringe when reading this and picturing myself handling and eating them. In principle, I'm all for it, but I'm kind of a somewhat squeamish eater and I think for me they would need to be integrated into something where you can't really tell it's there (protein bars, soups, whatever).
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Pro-tip of every hellscape. If they make you eat bugs you make the bugs eat them
I don't know how much crickets cost, but legumes are pretty cheap too
For anyone wondering, this is called "Manufacturing Consent".
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Now that's what I call LITERALLY SNOWPIERCER
After finding out that the most popular snack item at some baseball team's stadium here in the US was Sour Cream & Onion flavored crickets, I've been wanting to try that.
I've never tried whole bugs, only protein bars. I feel like the texture of exoskeleton would be the worst part?
It's just crispy when cooked properly. Do you like chips? French fries? Crispy pork? You'll be at home!
Fried and de-legged they taste like sunflower seed kernels, they're really inoffensive. The worst part is thinking about what they are.
That sounds alright. De-legged makes sense.
A friend of mine in Zambia taught me how to fry caterpillars. They are like squishy french fries. They are fine. They pair well with chibuku.
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