I fed some crickets oranges before taking them to a demonstration speech I was giving for speech class. My demonstration was on making "crispy critters" which are rice crispy treats with dry roasted crickets. As an opener, I ate a live cricket (new personal fears of parasites would stop me from doing this now). The cricket tasted just like orange candy, because he had a belly full of oranges. It was better than my dry roasted crickets. I ate a cricket live out of the yard and it tasted like grass. They are what they eat. Even so, when you cook them, they dry up to the point that you are just eating their shells mostly.

So yes, you could make them salty if you drown them in salt water, but the muscle is the major part. We need to figure out how to make them get major gains. Little barbells maybe.

I guess regular bugs have way less need of muscle than swimming bugs. I have eaten crickets in a few different ways, and they never taste anything like shrimp. ALso, living in salt water pre-seasons the flesh maybe. That is my working theory. If we could figure out how to breed crickets that taste anything like shrimp, I would make them part of my diet and maybe even breed them.

Thank you. We need to be aware of climate change, but crying wolf and false interpretation of the science isn't the way to get people on board.

Time was when you would be in a forum and think "This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams."

We wouldn't even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.

I wish they would tone down the crusade. This is some of the most interesting technology to come out in decades.

I fought hard against that for years. I still only use 'app' for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn't technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.

One queen is enough to seed an ant farm. Those are just particularly interesting ants, and hard to get. It is best to just have local ants for farms because then you can release them if necessary, but keeping interesting and exotic ants is more interesting than local types you probably see all the time, especially in areas without a great variety of local ants. 250 dollars for an exotic pet is pretty cheap really.

This is sort of like the advice i was given when traveling. Don't give money to begging children. They have handlers in the background who get the money and giving it incentivizes them to force more children into begging.

Has everyone forgotten about Guantanamo? There are probably people there still who just got caught up in "911" sweeps for all we know. Even if they say they've moved or transferred all of them.

I wonder how far the military will follow orders... Do they have a line or will they just roll with whatever the commander in chief says?

I didn't realize they pegged Balatro at PEGI 18. Definitely ridiculous. Kids play poker all the time without gambling. It's a card game. I don't think there is a less objectionable game out there.