I'd rather eat bugs than shellfish. Never had bugs but I know I don't like seafood so at least there's a chance the insects won't be bad.
Oh, you eat bugs. You just don't know it.
I don't get it either, but head says no no and yes yes.
It's upbringing mostly. I grew up in a family that ate sea brass fillets or tuna steaks at most, and was 20+ when I tried my first shrimp. I hated the taste & texture.
I now like tiger prawns, lobster and other large crustaceans with lot of meat and little actual seafood flavor, but the tiny ones are just like bugs to me. I can tolerate them readily peeled in a strongly flavoured dish, but can live without just fine.
Really is an acquired taste.
There's definitely a difference though. Only water bugs will kill me if eaten
It's all about presentation. I can prep crickets in a way that almost anyone will eat them. Feed them oatmeal for a few days, then slow roast, powder in a blender, combine with sesame oil, salt, and spices, stuff it into wonton wrappers and steam. If nobody knows what's in them they disappear. But if I do fried crickets like the ones the Korean street vendors sell, very few non-Asians would touch them.
A lot of insects can be prepared using familiar presentations and the unsuspecting will devour them. I found ant cookies delicious - like a molasses cookie. And ground rolly-pollies (sowbug/pillbug/armadillium) could be used to make shrimp shumai and nobody would be the wiser.
Chocolate covered giant ants are lovely! Sold in Selfridges (UK).
I own a bar in south western Saskatchewan. The other night I pulled the jar out of jalapeno garlic fried crickets i got offn Amazon, roughly 3/4s of the patrons gave them a try.
Well to be fair, land bugs have harder shell, and are therefore more uncomfortable to eat.
I want a bug burger and I want it NOW
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