Eating Bugs?

[Guest Claire-n-tel]

Watched the shark tank last night, there was a woman who has started a business selling bugs to eat....even has bug flour!

 

So would you?? And what is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

[Guest vikkiann]

Is this actually a serious post?

[Guest Claire-n-tel]

Yes honestly!.....they even gave here the money.......the lady from boost juice gave her $170,000!!

[Blossom]

I ate a cricket once in Thailand. It was like eating a spicy dry twig.

If they made flour out of it which tasted ok etc, sure. They already use beetles for colouring.

[flossybeth]

They already use beetles for colouring.

 

My son only found this out recently and has vowed to give up anything red just in case - I can't see that it's any different to eating any part of an animal really, it's just what we're used to as acceptable. I think we do need to look at more sustainable food sources if we're going to continue to grow as a world population, but having said that when the lady in Coles today tried to get me to buy whole fish instead of fillets I had to decline...

[Guest Claire-n-tel]

When the lady in Coles today tried to get me to buy whole fish instead of fillets I had to decline...

 

You should try it.....cooking the whole fish gives much better flavour

[Guest Guest75]

Yep, Cochineal Beetles are used ,the live on cacti. We saw a Cochineal "farm" in the Canary Islands once.

[coolerking]

Watched the shark tank last night, there was a woman who has started a business selling bugs to eat....even has bug flour!

 

So would you?? And what is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

 

Well, I moved to Hong Kong aged 18months and lived there for 6.5 years. I remember going in a shop one day and they had a variety of jars containing insects covered in chocolate. I might have only been 5, but that seemed odd to me My dad decided against it but he did once have live shrimp in Korea - very ill afterwards.

 

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[Guest wen66]

Ooh I watched that episode of Shark Tank. Why not insects? Probably better for you than highly processed food from China.......:-D