The case for eating bugs

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  1. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/Default.aspx?article=scienceeatbug

    I know a friend who tried a bug dish before, I can't remember exactly what kind. He said it was just like eating potato chips.

    I'll stick with my chicken, beef and pork thanks... but I am a teeny tiny bit curious. Maybe one of these days I'll pick up this guy's book and try one recipe. Just one.
     
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  3. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    I've eaten honey ants and regularly eat crustaceans, echinoderms and molluscs of many varieties.
    Delicious.
     
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  5. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    What types of "bugs" are typically eaten in the West ?
     
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  7. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    Did you read the article?

     
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  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    It only mentions mealworms and something chirpy, which must be crickets or grasshoppers.
     
  10. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    It mentions grasshoppers, ants, scorpions and Thai water bugs,
     
  11. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Ok, but form what I can gather from the articles only grasshoppers and mealworms are eaten regularly in the West.
     
  12. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    Oh, I don't think either are eaten regularly, not sure where you got that impression. It's very much a niche food.
     
  13. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Oh ok.. I just assumed

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    Ok.. which are eaten the most ?
     
  14. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    You have made a distinction between terrestrial crustaceans and molluscs and aquatic.
    Crabs, crayfish and many other aquatic crustaceans are regularly consumed as are molluscs such as mussels, oysters, squid, octopus and echinoderms are eaten too; urchins.
     
  15. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I doubt they are considered bugs though. Isn't that called seafood ?
     
  16. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah. You've made the dubious distinction between terrestrial bugs and aquatic.
    You'd know better than most that they often belong to both categories.

    I haven't tried Bogong moths yet ( roasted in the coals but I will. I've certainly golloped up a tequila soaked scorpion and catepillar or two.
    Witchetty grubs are on my must try list.
    I've eaten sea cucumbers, turban shells, terrestrial snails
    and (not bugs) but many, many varieties of seaweed
     
  17. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Many people eat bugs because there's no other food source for they have decimated the types of animals that once thrived where they live because of overpopulation.

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  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Technically the term "bug" is reserved for the Hemiptera (true bugs).
    The "popular" use describes a rather unspecified group of little animals, but is usually restricted to invertebrates.
    So I guess you could include "sea bugs" as well.
     
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    Varda won't like this

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  20. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    She will once she's had a bite of roasted termites, yeah?
     
  21. Pinocchio's Hoof Pay the Devil, or else.......£ Registered Senior Member

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    I know that mexicans have always had a taste for bugs and that they have ben eaten regulary since Aztec times....

    Fly egg burgers served with a bitter chocalate sauce is one that stood out to me, but i'm unable too find any link on the web for it at the mo

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    There are a few restaurants around that specialise in insect food product's I think that the eating of insects is called entomophagy so I suppose you would be a entomophagist but that would be a question for 'Fraggle the Great' if he can be coaxed out of the Linguistics cave......lol
     
  22. Pinocchio's Hoof Pay the Devil, or else.......£ Registered Senior Member

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    Just read the link properly and yes it is entomophagy bbut it's already been stated sry...

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  23. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    The thought alone almost made me puke..

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