I’m sure plenty of people who gag at the thought of eating a cicada would’t think twice about eating escargot, caviar, tobiko, uni, foie gras, vanilla ice cream, shrimp, lobster and crab (which are not much different than “bugs”, but live in the sea), raw oysters, clams and various fish. All of these things are luxury foods that are widely consumed because people have accepted them over time. I remember when brain, tripe and tongue were displayed in every grocer’s meat counter, but today Generation Z would run out of the store crying if they saw them.
Humans eat what is locally available to survive. Americans have become completely dependent on grocery stores for food. The inventory in the grocery store will dictate their diet. Those who wish to eat what they want, instead of what they are fed from big grocery, will have to develop alternative sources and methods. They might even have to relocate.
While traveling, I’ve eaten plenty of food that local people eat daily, that some foreigners that have grown accustomed to eating mass produced/farmed food from their grocery store, would find gross. Insects, balut, fruit bat, coconut crab, various snakes and lizards, eels, seaweed, brain, dried fish, various dried or pickled meats, yeasts and fungi, moldy cheeses, cabeza, and a few things I’m not sure about. Most of them were quite good, as the locals had figured out how to prepare what God provided for them in abundance. A few were not so good, but I survived...
I will eat anything that doesn’t eat me first...................