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To: Red Badger
99% of the Western world will never get into eating insects as part of their diet, and will always consider it disgusting.
33 posted on 01/22/2024 11:10:46 AM PST by PallMal
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To: PallMal

“99% of the Western world will never get into eating insects as part of their diet, and will always consider it disgusting.”

You might want to tell that to the French, Spaniards,Mexicans,Italians,Moroccans,and the Jews. Every one of those Western diets has some insect as part of their food culture. All of Asia does as well and Latin America especially Mesoamerica. As a world traveler I can confirm nearly every culture on earth eats at least one form of insect protein or insect produced product. Cicadas are quite good when fried they taste like freshwater prawns, same for locusts which are called desert shrimp for that very reason. Truth is anyone who eats water bugs (shrimp,prawn,lobster,crabs) are already eating insects the cognitive dissonance is all internal to the person the biology fact is water bugs are genetically identical to land bugs. Heck the largest and one of the tastiest crabs on earth are land bugs. Coconut crab is spectacular when grilled or roasted over you guessed it coconut shells.


98 posted on 01/22/2024 12:32:29 PM PST by GenXPolymath
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To: PallMal

The idea of eating bugs makes me think of eating shrimp with the shells and the vein.


127 posted on 01/22/2024 7:09:28 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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