A guy I used to work with from Oaxaca used to eat them as a snack. Would bring them in a giant plastic bag and leave them in the fridge. Perhaps it's just a Mexico/Central America thing.
On the other hand, he never needed to send a site-wide email asking who stole his crickets out of the fridge...
He let me try one once. Weird texture without much flavor. Not something I would go out of my way to eat. If anything they'll start out using it as a filler material in things like sausages and premade foods like they do with textured soy protein.
When I visited Greece in '92, I noticed that the residential back yards were totally "infested" with the same kinds of snails that the local markets sold.
Like your crickets, they're not .. horrible, if you can stand the rubbery texture when cooked right, but when push comes to shove, that's protein that you can gather with your veggies ...
Though the thought that snails is exactly where dogs get worms from, makes me not want to eat snails.
A guy I used to work with from Oaxaca used to eat them as a snack. Would bring them in a giant plastic bag and leave them in the fridge. Perhaps it's just a Mexico/Central America thing.
That's disgusting.
On the other hand, he never needed to send a site-wide email asking who stole his crickets out of the fridge...
He let me try one once. Weird texture without much flavor. Not something I would go out of my way to eat. If anything they'll start out using it as a filler material in things like sausages and premade foods like they do with textured soy protein.
When I visited Greece in '92, I noticed that the residential back yards were totally "infested" with the same kinds of snails that the local markets sold.
Like your crickets, they're not .. horrible, if you can stand the rubbery texture when cooked right, but when push comes to shove, that's protein that you can gather with your veggies ...
Though the thought that snails is exactly where dogs get worms from, makes me not want to eat snails.
Oaxacans just like eating bugs