Oh shit new moral panic just dropped!
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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I was expecting it to be the clip from Paul Joseph Watson 'I will not eat the bugs' that made the rounds a few years ago.
Holy moly, it's real.
What's it called when you eat the onion but turns out it actually is real?
This fucking timeline
tuesday
Not the onion?
Normally yes, but the OP actually is an onion article.
The way I see it, it'd be similar to how ostrich eggs are sold in Canada and a lot of other places worldwide as a kind of novelty food, but most people just eat chicken eggs anyways.
From this article
Ashour said 10 per cent of the product is sold for human consumption. The rest is sold to the pet food industry.
"It's quite remarkable how normal insect consumption can be in some of these countries," Ashour said.
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POV: You’re the world’s largest producer of lentils, by far
Conservatives: “They’re eating the bugs”
dont they know where those red colors dyed M&Ms come from?
I tried eating bugs, it's not bad. Aside from lobster and shrimp I mean, grasshoppers aren't that bad.
Silkworm pupae (Beondegi in Korean) are pretty good too.
I would try it, looks interesting. The canned stuff though... Ugh
The boiled or steamed snack food is served in paper cups with toothpick skewers. Its aroma has been described as "nutty, shrimp-like, and a bit like canned corn" and the canned-type smells very much "like tire rubber", while the texture is firm and chewy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi
Edit: are those just the 'de-silked' pupae from the silk industry?
The pupa stage is a motionless stage. In this stage, people kill the pupa by plunging the cocoon into boiling water and unwind the silk thread.
https://byjus.com/chemistry/silkworm/
So yes, it looks like this is the leftover insect after the silk is removed
Even better, thanks!
More for me!
What happened to freedom and letting people excercise their liberty as they please.
I mean, nobody is forced to eat crickets lol
Yeah exctly. But if i wanna eat crickets thats my godamn right.