I’ve consumed the occasional bug whilst on the bike (the pedal kind in my case). Can’t say they were too good, but it’s one of the reasons I feel like I could be bold enough to eat them deliberately.
Is that your blog, or someone else’s? Either way, it looks like I would enjoy reading it. Thanks for the link!
My favourite dance is decadance 
It was a present, and I liked it. Gold is inert, you just shit it afterwards. Have you ever shat gold? I have 
You have some fun present-givers in your life, it seems.
Mud-bugs(crawdaddies) are about as adventurous as I can get.
Anyway, mealworms and crickets ain’t on my diet..yeah, I’m going with that.
Crawdaddies are good eating!
Love 'em!
Thats my old website. It’s a bit broken - most of my content is on youtube these days
Ah. I personally prefer reading blogs to watching YT, but I will probably check out both. I enjoy that type of content.
The ones I had in China were sort of the consistency of mashed potatoes in the middle (which I tried not to think about too closely).
I eat Escargot regularly. They delicious!
Son-of-a-wrek swears he’s swallowed the worm in a bunch of 5ths of tequila. But he doesn’t remember it.
These are a (relatively) local delicacy I’ve had a couple times:
How were they prepared, how did they taste, and did you like it?
Many times. Crickets, mealworms, roasted tarantula, grubs grilled on a stick, termites, honeypot ants, black soldierflies, and more.
Disclaimer: I am an entomologist.
Have any of you weirdos tried eating bugs?
Not deliberately, no…
I haven’t, but one of these days I might.
I recommend two books:
Good to Eat (AKA The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig) by anthropologist Marvin Harris. Harris championed a research philosophy called “Cultural Materialism”, which examines foodways in light of. According to him, lots of different cultures ate insects, especially if the work expended justified the calories received. Although we tend to think of bugs as bags of goop (think Bear Gryllz biting into a grub, or Trevor Noah describing eating caterpillars when growing up poor), most of the insects people eat contain lots of muscle tissue – think grasshoppers, with those powerful legs. Gatheric a lot of ants or termites takes a lot of effort and gets you a lot of indigestible chitin, but if a swarm of locusts has eaten the bulk of your grain crop, and they’re lying on the ground torpid afterwards, it makes a lot of sense to gather up the locusts when the gettin’ is good, roasting them, and eating them for all that edible muscle.
The Eat -a-Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon. I saw this book at the Squam Lakes Nature Center in New Hampshire and had to pick it up. Gordon is an apostle of bug eating, and the title of this book is no joke – he really does give you detailed recipes for “sky prawns” and the like, with appetizing photos of the results. He also gives lectures and classes on this. According to his book, he REALLY wanted to eat a Giant Bird-Eating Spider from South America. He was lucky enough to get someone to ship him a dead specimen, packed in dry ice, but the ice all evaporated before he got it, and it was spoiled. He still gives the recipe in his book, which starts with an instruction to break off the giant poison fangs with pliers.
According to Harris, the biggest problem with most bugs is that most don’t have much flavor. He claims that giant spiders do, however, comparing the taste of one to “concentrated Gorgonzola Cheese”. Another problem, surprisingly, is that insects are high in fat. You can always claim not to be eating bugs because you’re on a diet.
Another problem is that some insects are high in acids (ants are full of foric acid) or other substances (centipedes and millipedes are strongly contraindicated, despite the large number of drumsticks)
Oddly enough, I just had a long conversation on this topic last weekend with another bug enthusiast at a picnic. No bugs were served.
This is what I was going to say-- I eat bugs all the time! I made a delicious batch of shrimp fried rice just last night. Also I love lobster, and have eaten crawdads on occasion.
Coincidentally, I watched this video that showed up in my YouTube feed just a few days ago. I’m used to seeing YT videos show up in my feed about a topic I recently read about in a SDMB thread, but getting a video related to a subject several days before I read about it on the SDMB? Man, the YT algorithms are getting good.
Salted and smoked. Mostly salty and smoky, like bits of dried fish. They were OK, ‘like’ is a stronger word than I’d use.
I’ve often eaten and enjoyed crawfish. They may not technically be bugs, but I regard anything that’s a lawn pest as insectoid.