# Eating bugs vs eating candy with bugs in it

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bugs-vs-eating-candy-with-bugs-in-it/480986>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 12, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bugs-vs-eating-candy-with-bugs-in-it/480986 "2009-01-12T21:43:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bugs-vs-eating-candy-with-bugs-in-it/480986/21 "2009-01-15T01:07:49Z")

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> [@Markxxx](#):
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> I wonder why humans (me included) are so against eating incests. They’re probably for the most part just protein and we eat all other kinds of things.
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> Obviously you wouldn’t want to eat honey bees because if they turned out to be delicious then we wouldn’t have any honey, **which no one really likes anyway** , but well you wouldn’t want to put the honey beekeepers out of business, would you?

:eek: You don’t like honey?! How? As for the thread, I would never eat an insect, candied or otherwise.

Valete,  
Vox Imperatoris

ETA: Shellfish creep me out, too. I only eat shrimp, and then only because they taste \*sooo \*good.

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