• @Pothetato
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    71 month ago

    I’ve never tried whole bugs, only protein bars. I feel like the texture of exoskeleton would be the worst part?

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      It’s just crispy when cooked properly. Do you like chips? French fries? Crispy pork? You’ll be at home!

      • @nomous
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        61 month ago

        Fried and de-legged they taste like sunflower seed kernels, they’re really inoffensive. The worst part is thinking about what they are.

        • @Pothetato
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          61 month ago

          That sounds alright. De-legged makes sense.

    • @JimVanDeventer
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      81 month ago

      A friend of mine in Zambia taught me how to fry caterpillars. They are like squishy french fries. They are fine. They pair well with chibuku.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      I had dried cricket when my aunt hosted this insane trivia game as one of the “rewards” for guessing incorrectly, it actually wasn’t that bad, didn’t really taste like anything, just a standard salty burnt taste or a weird potato chip

      Not something I’m gonna go out and find to eat but it wasn’t bad

      • don
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        21 month ago

        Your first sentence says, “it actually was that bad,” but your second sentence says, “but it wasn’t that bad” so I’m going to assume you meant the latter.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        I’ve only ever had one worse protein bar: the original powerbar. Made in Idaho back in the nineties, they were a uniformly brown (regardless of flavor), chewy, sticky, oddly grain flavored abomination. The OG version came in gold foil wrappers with black text, like it was out of a fancy MRE. They were awful.

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      11 month ago

      I imagine they would have the same eating experience as those mini shrimps commonly used in Chinese cooking. Meaning, great tasting but very unpleasant texture due to the shell.