Posted on 05/31/2021 3:42:11 PM PDT by Libloather
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Air-fried felt like a safe place to start, especially once I noticed the flurry of Old Bay seasoning being sprinkled onto each batch. I grabbed a set of two on a toothpick, declining the extra roll in even more Old Bay (I’m at work here). The cicadas, once pale, were now golden and browned, their signature eyes turned black from the heat. I popped one into my mouth.
Not bad! Certainly not buggy. The entire critter crackled in my mouth like a piece of earthy popcorn. I caught a subtle nuttiness underneath the crunch, almost reminiscent of a roasted chickpea. By the fourth or fifth chew I was almost starting to like it, until I swallowed and realized that a teeny-tiny leg was lingering on my tongue. The toothpick went into the trash, along with the other cicada.
Next up was a chocolate-covered cicada, which by comparison felt like cheating. Thanks to the thickness of the coating, I was easily able to pretend that I was eating a large chocolate-covered raisin. From there, it was all downhill. My third and fourth cicadas, which were grilled, tasted like smokier, chewier versions of the air-fried one, with a slightly meatier flavor that made it clear why cicada eaters compare them to shrimp.
Nowhere was that shellfish flavor more evident than in the oven-roasted cicada, though I was quickly distracted from that thought by the realization that the bug had exploded in my mouth like a Gusher. My tongue awash in bug guts, I reconsidered all the choices I’d made in my life that had brought me to that moment.
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People are really silly about this. As you point out, shrimp is really not much different than the bugs we are talking about here. Yet not only do we eat them but we pay a premium price to do so.
If you can eat shrimp, no doubt you can handle some fried grasshoppers with a little garlic and Old Bay seasoning.
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The only thing wrong with your line of reasoning, is that when I eat shrimp, crab, lobster, etc, I don’t at the eyes, legs, shell, guts. They don’t have a chewy center that explodes in your mouth.
Well, I'll never know.
1) It divideth not the hoof, nor cheweth the cud.
2) It has not been bled
3) It has not been cleaned & skinned: it is full of entrails & filth
4) Eeeee, Ewwww, icky-poo!
(Retch)
That might get the bug taste out of my mouth. Or maybe I'll have to go for bleach.
That might get the bug taste out of my mouth. Or maybe I'll have to go for bleach.
I’m NOT eating bugs. 🕷️
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Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjsPpRZVrzQ
We will reach maximum despotism when there are Tofu substitute “artificial edible insects”
spiders aren’t insects
They are pretty when they first split their shells, ivory with a pink and green iridescence. They darken as you watch, within the hour fully colored.
So you could pretend they were land shrimp, except I wonder about eating a gut full of clay, or do they self-purge? Maybe not till they are ready to fly.
Two on every lily plant, a dozen on one ferns clump, I have counted a dozen ready to emerge in three square feet of soil, translates to 100,000 in my one acre yard.
If I freeze them all, my family can eat for three years :)
The Bible permits locusts. Cicadas close enough.
You’ll never get THAT taste out of your mouth
With a little makeup...
Direct from India?
Double ditto!
I have not eaten a lot of exotic stuff in my life but one I did was kangaroo. Basically it tasted like lean beef which was fine except if I want lean beef i’ll get lean beef. No need to search out something exotic to replicate a taste that is readily available. Similar to every other exotic thing that tastes like chicken. Stick with chicken.
Great idea! I’ve eaten delicious chocolate covered ants before.
A little haute cuisine for you all...
How to cook wood lice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zo2o0WL1dM
And their big brother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-UuS_YSPKk
Yummy !
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