Random wonderings

[kimberkit]

I've always wanted to try tasting those crunchy bugs they show you in movies. Would they taste like delicious crunchy noodles? Would they be faintly nutty, and good with chocolate? Or would they be tasteless, like boiled chicken with a crack to it?

I wonder sometimes whether they would be better tasting if I were some other creature. Like a frog.

I wonder about bugs because I'm pretty sure that I just ate a small ant that had crawled into our salt shaker... and it tasted like salt.

Comments

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

I interviewed David Gracer (of Sunrise Land Shrimp) about entomophagy (bug-eating) for the RI book. He's actually gotten a fair amount of press, from the NYT to the article Graeme links below to a spot on the Colbert Report.

As for the bugs, they vary. I've had some that were blandish and crunchy, and would probably be better over rice. Some, although not very nutty-tasting, were good when covered in chocolate. And some, bizarrely, taste like really salty fruit.