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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 20:16:15 GMT
Billions of people eat low-cost and environmentally friendly insect protein.
www.cbsnews.com/moneywatch/
Can you believe that some people throw away flour with weevils in it?
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Post by Calfkeeper on Oct 10, 2015 1:07:02 GMT
Ha. Sorry; I think my Western culture is too deeply ingrained in me; I'm not going looking for insect recipe books.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2015 23:35:02 GMT
I raised my girls to be little ladies, always trying to keep them clean and safe and teaching them NOT to put anything dangerous in their sweet little mouths. So what happens? They become teenagers and decide to eat these new flavored crickets that come in a little box, complete with a clear plastic window so mom can view the disgusting bugs inside. Talk. About. Sickening!
"But Mom, they taste like a cross between chips and peanuts." I'll eat the chips and peanuts, thank you.
"They are much healthier than McDonalds." So is cardboard, but I'm not eating it either!
Sigh. Land of the free, home of the brave, breadbasket of the world. . .and my kids want to eat BUGS. Don't know where I went wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2015 7:29:46 GMT
Sigh. Land of the free, home of the brave, breadbasket of the world. . .and my kids want to eat BUGS. Don't know where I went wrong. LOL! |
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Post by hermitjohn on Oct 14, 2015 14:07:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2015 15:09:44 GMT
As long as I didn't SEE it, I wouldn't freak out ok. Ground up and mixed in flour in a brownie or something (as long as it's safe and sanitary) it wouldn't be so bad. But I will not eat a dead cricket complete with eyes and feelers and such, no matter how it's flavored. I can't get past the ugly creepiness of it, but then again, I'm the same way with shrimp. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 8:37:16 GMT
lol @ possum
I am the same way I think it's a bit odd to eat crawfish and lobsters in a tank really freak me out. Shrimp or fish (bass, salmon, tilapia, etc) though I don't mind getting down and dirty with or cooking them. It's odd. Oh and I love (eating) crab. I agree with the bug thing, if I don't know and it's good for me, then awesome. But to see it whole, or to clean it, I'm not so sure.
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Post by Bear Foot Farm on Oct 18, 2015 21:18:10 GMT
How hungry was the first one that looked at a crab and thought "That looks tasty"?
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 18, 2015 21:44:51 GMT
Billions of people eat low-cost and environmentally friendly insect protein.
www.cbsnews.com/moneywatch/
Can you believe that some people throw away flour with weevils in it?
Anyone know a good insect recipe book? just run the flour with the bugs through the grain mill again and use like regular flour |
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Post by grannyg on Oct 19, 2015 1:13:56 GMT
They were discussing the value of crickets the other night on the radio...how high in protein they were....all I could think of was getting those saw tooth shaped legs stuck in my throat...No thank you....they tell us we would never eat pepper on our food if we knew just how many bug bodies were crushed and ground up with the pepper...but I love pepper...LOL..
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Post by themotherhen on Oct 19, 2015 1:43:24 GMT
Ha. Sorry; I think my Western culture is too deeply ingrained in me; I'm not going looking for insect recipe books. I'm with you on that one!!!! DH always teases me and says that if we ever had to move to certain countries I would starve to death, lol. No thank you to eating bugs. |
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Oct 19, 2015 3:09:07 GMT
I think if I was really, really , REALLY, REALLY hungry, like famine hungry, I could eat them, but I prefer a nice cut of salmon or steak, or bacon....yes, bacon would be much better than bugs. Bacon is much better than most everything else, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 18:16:11 GMT
They were discussing the value of crickets the other night on the radio...how high in protein they were....all I could think of was getting those saw tooth shaped legs stuck in my throat...No thank you....they tell us we would never eat pepper on our food if we knew just how many bug bodies were crushed and ground up with the pepper...but I love pepper...LOL.. I wish I hadn't read that lol. Now to go hire one of those Men-in-black guys to use a memory eraser on my mind... |
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Post by Calfkeeper on Oct 20, 2015 1:15:31 GMT
Well...my husband says everything tastes OK if it has been fried. So if you took off the legs, battered it, fried it super crispy, put lots of salt and even PEPPER...maybe I could eat it. I dunno. If I had to had to HAD TO. But I still wouldn't need a bug cook book for that. LOL
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Post by terrilynn on Oct 20, 2015 11:22:33 GMT
I couldn't do it. But upon seeing the subject line my first thought was I wonder how much it costs to raise bugs.....I'm thinking chicken feed.......maybe raising my own I could cut back on corn? I know my uncle used to raise his own worms for fishing, had a screened in pen and everything so the coons wouldn't eat them.
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