Eating Bugs and Insects

[jkct01]

What do you think about bugs and insects as food?

[nerdieeds]

I think it is okay.
There is a place in the Philippines that serve a Crickets as part of their Cuisine. I think it is delicious. I have not tried it but based off the videos I have seen on Youtube people are enjoying the juicy little creatures.

[jkct01]

I feel the same. Bugs and insects are protein rich food.

[jkct01]

Entomophagy means human consumption of insects as food.

[jkct01]

eating of insects as food is common in many cultures.

[jkct01]

In some parts of Thailand eating insect is a normal practice.

[TAlberts]

Yikes! I better eat grass. My father already called me an “eating grass Filipina” whenever I went home. LOL! I don´t mind.

[jkct01]

I am also not used to eating insects but I think it is just like we eating crabs or prawns. Just a matter of perception I guess. Close the eyes and just chew without knowing what it is, it will turn out fine.

[lejla1311]

I know that eating bugs and insects is normal in some cultres and countries, but honestly I would never try them no matter what. I don’t like to see them moving around and I can’t even think of eating them. Gross!

[luciaanna]

@lejla1311 I agree with you.

[kendralala]

I am from the Philippines but in our locality, those aren’t edible. I can’t imagine myself eating those kinds of creatures. I don’t even eat some other ordinary food.

[iyanpol12]

Sorry but I will never eat bugs or insects.

[jkct01]

Eating insects may be the way to solve the lack of food problem.

[cgalavia]

I can’t bear to eat those little insects…

[marygoround]

aww and how about you found some insects in a rice cooke??? how about with ants???

[jkct01]

It is like the animal internal organs, it is treated as delicacies in Asia but may not be so in other parts of the world.

[Maricel]

OMG I will never try to eat that bugs and insects I know there are people who eat that but not my genre my friend.

[jkct01]

I can understand that. It is a big psychology gap to cross. I had to force myself to try when I visited Thailand.

[snaiserian]

It would depend on the circumstances surrounding me at that very moment, i may not have any other choice but to eat the bug but generally now for me eating a bug or an insect is a No though in our country there are some communities that eat the insects that are found on an ant-hill and they really like coming out when its raining, some people eat them alive they say its very delicious.

[Omison]

In Samoa, they’re currently harvesting a seas worm called “Palolo” it comes out once a year in October and is labelled Samoan caviar…I grew up on that stuff! YUMMY!

[jkct01]

Interesting! Can you describe how does it taste like?

[realityspeaks]

I wouldn’t mind a few crispy deep fried insects on my fruit salad with ice cream.

[jkct01]

You are a daring person!

[Jeanette Hall]

People all over the world eat them as their food. Why should we be any different? Have eaten a chocolate covered grasshopper before! Wouldn’t recommend it. Local McDonalds used to add earth worms to their hamburgers when I was little (they stopped once the public got wind of the practice). No one got sick from it. Have heard that meal worms may be the answer to world hunger problem, but have not tried eating any myself.

[jkct01]

LOL! MacWorm would be a hot selling item! 🙂

[peachpurple]

@jkct01 isn’t it dirty and full of bacteria when one swallow an insect?

[jkct01]

When you eat fish or poultry you don’t eat it raw with feathers and fish scales. Surely if it is for food, it has to be prepared accordingly.

[peachpurple]

oh boy my hair is standing up now

[jkct01]

It is the same as eating eggs which is basically embryos.

[dinuka]

Not a fan. But I know people do that. It’s a really normal thing to them.

[jkct01]

Yes, a matter of culture, tradition and perception, and in the end, I suspect, a need.

[jkct01]

So far the only insect I have eaten is fried meal worm which tasts like shrimp.

[Grecy Garcia]

They are indeed yummy foods from province but I haven’t tasted anything like that. I would not want to either, not now, not really now.

[jkct01]

It is kind of yukky for people who are not used to eating it – I went thru the process myself 🙂

[jkct01]

I have never had snails – I guess the taste is like oysters.

[jkct01]

To be edible by the humans, all food need to be clean and disease free.

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