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Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape (slrpnk.net)
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[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

In Mexico, chapulines are a bit of an exotic delicacy from old Aztec cuisine, there's a place in my town that has them, heated and tossed on a grill with no oil, then served on a corn tortilla with black beans, fresh chopped onions and cilantro, topped with a lime squeeze and green jalapeño salsa.
They are delicious.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

Oh god that sounds disgusting! How can you eat that? I don't think I could even get to the point of swallowing, let alone chewing it up. I feel a little nauseous just thinking about it. Cilantro?!

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You’re sounding awfully judgemental for a mutant!

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

It always makes me so disappointed. I have tried cilantro probably a hundred times now always thinking yeah, it makes things better for others it has to taste fine this time. So I use it when I make tacos or anything if someone else is eating with me. Yet every time, still tastes like fucking soap. Lol. I really want it to not... Not sure why.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Genetics.

Same reason some people can’t smell aspara-piss.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Id ask if we could trade genetics, but your father may or may not be Satan and I'm not sure what that entails. Fuck it, I'm down

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I think it’s understandable that you want something to taste nice, especially if others seem to enjoy it and you feel like you’re missing out.

If you want to know ‘why’ it tastes like soap it is literally genetics. You have a mutation to your taste buds!

I also have a fun one, I can taste Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol, which most people can’t. I can taste it in quantities as low as 10 parts per trillion.

It is a shitty superpower because it makes water that is perfectly clean and safe to drink taste like mud.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

So uh... If I didn't know what those were before you mentioned them is that a bad thing?

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Nope, I only know because my cities water supply was switched one day and our tap water went from the being like the finest spring water to a muddy puddle.

I contacted the water supplier and found out Im a mutant… and that you can mostly fix it by boiling the water.

[-] vala@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Wish there was a place to try this in the US.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There is! Everything they listed is readily available in your local market, and crickets can be purchased in bulk at pet stores.

[-] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've eaten crickets. Just not this dish. The ones from the pet store taste bad btw.

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[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If you're ever in Austin, Tx, there's a place called Mexta that serves them as a side. Best ones I've had outside Mexico.

[-] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Actually just looked it up and they same some places that serve this in my state. Probably going tonight.

[-] jg1i@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Uh, yeah, exactly. I'm like wat. Chapulines are delicious. At worst they kinda taste like walnuts to me. If people ate them blindfolded in a taco with other ingredients, I don't imagine too strong of a reaction.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

My nephews lived in Mexico for a few years and they still miss them.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

I would fucking love to get my protein from insects - they're prohibitively expensive.

Also, outrage bait.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I looked up cricket flour and it's not cheap, also some complaints that it's not real flour like for baking

[-] Aux@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Nothing is like wheat flour for baking.

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I was curious to see the comments because I think OP was expecting something similar to facebook or reddit. But I feel like most people here recognize this for the lame rage bait that it is. Only idiot Fox News watching conservatives freak out about this shit.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I'll have plant protein instead, thanks.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

saves hundreds

  1. Not the hundreds of crickets.

  2. Unlikely to be money. Raising insects is, by definition, raising animals. They need to eat too, along with shelter.

Ditch the crickets, eat the legumes. Legumes won't run away. 🫘🫛

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I think the study didn't say what you think it does. The solid filtrate diet worked according to the summary, and doesn't conflict with feed for chickens. There are vegan and vegetarian options of course, but saying they aren't economic isn't true.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"Economic" depends on the subsidies which exist regardless of the species of those organisms.

There are many studies on these conversion ratios, I just wanted to point at one that gets into the "waste promise" too.

Nothing is going to beat eating plants because plants are primary producers of calories, amino-acids, fats.

What is going to happen, especially in the Western places where meat is in large demand and large supply, is that subsidies for insect farming are going to sustain the usual vertebrate farming.

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[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

Crickets and other insects meant for consumption are actually pretty expensive, so that cant be real. There is so much cheaper food that you would actually want to eat.

I love trying out insect based food, and every time it was a lot more expensive, drier, and tasted worse than other options, so I cant imagine something like this actually going mainstream.

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Relevant Flork of Cows comic

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

For anyone wondering, this is called "Manufacturing Consent".

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Amazing

[-] ealoe@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago

I'm eating billionaire bacon before I eat bugs, no thanks

[-] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

I'd eat bugs well before I tried to eat another human, billionaire or not.

But if you gave me a flyswatter to kill a random bug or a gun to kill a random CEO, and I HAD to choose one or the other... the bug would probably make it out alive.

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[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I don't know how much crickets cost, but legumes are pretty cheap too

[-] Pothetato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Aux@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That sounds alright. De-legged makes sense.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah I meant to say wasnt, oops

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[-] radical_larry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Pro-tip of every hellscape. If they make you eat bugs you make the bugs eat them

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Now that's what I call LITERALLY SNOWPIERCER

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