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02 Feb 2018, 1:03 am

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why can't our brilliant scientists figure out a way to make edible animals better for our health? like pump 'em full of vitamins and minerals and omega 3s and such.

Because that would upset the vegans as they could no longer claim their diet is healthier.


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02 Feb 2018, 1:17 am

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I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper

and I thought I was being adventurous by eating seaweed and dried squid jerky :alien: I might be able to eat stuff with cricket in it as long as I didn't know about it. like hide it in a cracker or something.



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02 Feb 2018, 1:21 am

auntblabby wrote:
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auntblabby wrote:
I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper

and I thought I was being adventurous by eating seaweed and dried squid jerky :alien: I might be able to eat stuff with cricket in it as long as I didn't know about it. like hide it in a cracker or something.

I think in Thailand it's marketed as "flying prawns" often the bias is cultural as in the west bugs are "icky"



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02 Feb 2018, 1:31 am

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper

and I thought I was being adventurous by eating seaweed and dried squid jerky :alien: I might be able to eat stuff with cricket in it as long as I didn't know about it. like hide it in a cracker or something.

I think in Thailand it's marketed as "flying prawns" often the bias is cultural as in the west bugs are "icky"

"flying prawns" :eew: I remember my mom telling me in pre-war japan, in town, she saw young kids gathered 'round store windows that had lights inside which attracted bugs to the windows, and the starving, ravenous kids snatched up the bugs and ate them.



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02 Feb 2018, 5:50 am

auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper

and I thought I was being adventurous by eating seaweed and dried squid jerky :alien: I might be able to eat stuff with cricket in it as long as I didn't know about it. like hide it in a cracker or something.

I think in Thailand it's marketed as "flying prawns" often the bias is cultural as in the west bugs are "icky"

"flying prawns" :eew: I remember my mom telling me in pre-war japan, in town, she saw young kids gathered 'round store windows that had lights inside which attracted bugs to the windows, and the starving, ravenous kids snatched up the bugs and ate them.

Off topic (and inviting the wrath of B19) but what was your mother doing in pre-war Japan if you don't mind me asking?



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02 Feb 2018, 7:21 am

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper


I've eaten dried crickets. You're right it's like eating dried shrimp.

These kind;

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02 Feb 2018, 9:07 am

AuntBlabby has Japanese in his family.

He’s actually a good-looking guy, and looks nothing like his avatar.



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02 Feb 2018, 1:18 pm

Large grasshoppers are tasty,roast like you would a marshmallow.All kinds of survival manuals teach about edible bugs,and poisonous ones.Some bugs can kill you.


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02 Feb 2018, 3:12 pm

Crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, shrimp, krill, crayfish) are closely related to insects.

What is a lobster, but just a great big bug?



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02 Feb 2018, 3:34 pm

They sound as bad as the pro-life protesters that stand outside of abortion clinics and harass women and staff.



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02 Feb 2018, 4:06 pm

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They sound as bad as the pro-life protesters that stand outside of abortion clinics and harass women and staff.


Yeah. Its a lot like that.



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02 Feb 2018, 4:56 pm

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what was your mother doing in pre-war Japan if you don't mind me asking?

she was Japanese. she grew up there in the 20s and 30s.



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02 Feb 2018, 4:57 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
AuntBlabby has Japanese in his family. He’s actually a good-looking guy, and looks nothing like his avatar.

thank you :heart:



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02 Feb 2018, 4:59 pm

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Large grasshoppers are tasty,roast like you would a marshmallow.All kinds of survival manuals teach about edible bugs,and poisonous ones.Some bugs can kill you.

as close as I can come to eating that, is if they disassembled them and reassembled them in an unrecognizable form.



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02 Feb 2018, 5:28 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Large grasshoppers are tasty,roast like you would a marshmallow.All kinds of survival manuals teach about edible bugs,and poisonous ones.Some bugs can kill you.

as close as I can come to eating that, is if they disassembled them and reassembled them in an unrecognizable form.

That's a thing that futurists talk about. When we start raising "micro livestock" for meat that the bugs will ground up into fish sticks, or put into sausages, or paddies, or like that, and that's how most folks will eat them. Works for me.



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02 Feb 2018, 5:39 pm

EzraS wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I don't think I could eat bug guts.

Cultivated Crickets taste exactly like shrimp but they are cheaper


I've eaten dried crickets. You're right it's like eating dried shrimp.

These kind;

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I think BBQ crickets would be interesting dipped in Aoli