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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.
So they're really popular if you pulverize them so they're totally unrecognizable and then trick people into eating them without respect for bodily autonomy‽
It doesn't sound like a trick, it sounds like a simple offer that people take up without bothering to ask what's in them.
Right?
Like this person is saying all this and coming across as quite smug about getting people to eat something by deception that they wouldn't choose to eat...and acting like it's something to be proud of.
I can't imagine it'd be getting a similar positive reaction if it were about sneaking animal products into a vegans meal.
He's describing substituting them in for similar things. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in shrimp shumai because those listed aren't insects, they're terrestrial crustaceans. (I better not find comments in favour of forced vaccination on your history) EDIT: Jeez...you know like the age of consent in every state dude. And all the "close in age" statute gaps by how many years.
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.
Real question: if you somehow fed those crickets seaweed, do you think they'd taste a little more... fishy or shimpy?
I'm honestly waiting for someone to breed these big enough to use whole, somehow. Terrestrial cultivation of shrimp-like food has got to be a better way to go than actual shrimp.