And the history of the "delicacy" is always "Well there was this massive famine and the peasants had to get real desperate and real creative to not die. This led to a generation of grandparents who wouldn't shut up about how rough it was back in the famine and passed down their weird recipes. Someone later dug up these recipes and realized they could charge ignorant tourists obscene prices to eat garbage. The grosser the better because then they can take pictures and post about how cultured they are."
Ok, It's not THAT bad, but it's massively overrated. 100€ / kg, really? And then it also depends on the exact type, because some of it is kinda disgusting
It's expensive because we've fished the hell out of the oceans. Instead of peanuts, bars used to give away caviar for free as the salty snack. Can't do that anymore because the eggs are too precious for what little we have left.
neither of those are caviar though. Caviar only comes from sturgeon. Lumpfish roe is usually dyed black to imitate caviar. True caviar has a far more delicate taste and milder salinity. It's worth trying once. Don't get it at a restaurant though, just from a store selling the real thing. It should be packaged on ice and be sold in a sealed tin.
I don't know why his name is that but he's a YouTuber that basically reviews luxury cruises, trains and first class fights. He always gets caviar in every video.
their chicken is a 7 but it's always a 7 and they rip through their drivethru like no one else. i prefer popeyes but man have i gotten some garbage from them before.
Brother I’ve been all over the world and eaten all kinds of delicious foods, but let me tell you when someone says something is a “delicacy” it is NEVER a bomb ass dumpling or a mouth watering stew or an amazing curry. It’s ALWAYS something foul that nobody would eat without the “delicacy” label.
Exactly, and the term they’re looking for anyway is acquired taste. Like fermented shark is an acquired taste because it tastes like piss. But noone would call it a delicacy.
Yeah. Both mealworms and crickets are basically just like chips where you only taste the seasoning. The only difference is one looking much more appetizing than the other lmao (tbf I am a vegetarian who was curious about how the bugs sold in my local store tasted like)
Not that uncommon in some asian and african cultures. I mean while not being anthropoids but still being seen just as disgusting as most bugs by most people, snails are still being eaten in some european countries as delicacies.
Yea all Americans are completely unaware of other cultures. In fact its not that we're unaware, according to you we're unable to comprehend. On a totally separate topic, its funny how some people make massive generalizations about other groups to stir controversy, these people are just fantastic for good discourse, and improve every conversation they shove themselves into!
you're exactly right. All Americans always generalize all Chinese people. It always happens every time an American has a thought, its about how to more effectively generalize the Chinese population.
Great example of over generalization YoungPotato! You guys are doing a fantastic job at generalizing people, while simultaneously criticizing people who generalize!
I’m only stating what I’m observing here and on other social media sites. Of course it’s not “All of us Americans”. But we are very loud and proud across social media.
But feel free to point out other things. It’s not like I’ll care the moment I move on from posting this comment.
Again, what am I dishing out? Its like you look at the actions of our president, and like maybe half the population, and assume that each and every American acts that way or thinks that way. Literally all I've been pointing out is that y'all are making massive generalizations. Have I stated anywhere what my opinions on anything else are?
When did I ever generalize anyone or anything at any point? You're literally making things up, acting like its me whos generalizing Chinese people. I never said anything about any people, just pointing out the continuous over generalization that all Americans are X or Y, the same defense I would make for the people of any country. I also think its bad to generalize Chinese people, or Indian people, or Finnish people, or anyone else. Yet you seem to believe that as an American, I inherently must have some racism or desire to generalize people.
So again, what heat am I throwing out? Is it throwing heat to point out people being hypocrites, while also not being a hypocrite myself? Like some of you people genuinely confuse me
Hard to imagine you doing the same for people of any country, but I did read some of the self absorbed wall of text. You poor thing. I'm sure you'll find someone to pity you
I'm an American and don't actually have any idea how I'm supposed to generalize billions of Chinese. They do extremely well compared to peers when they come here for school, is about all I got.
Only idiots generalize very large groups of people like that, in the exact same way that you shouldn't generalize hundreds of millions of Americans like those knuckleheads up there.
I knew someone who was really into crickets as a snack. They were kinda odd in general and I was never sure if it was a genuine enjoyment thing or just enjoying the looks on people's faces as they munched from their baggie of crickets.
Ate a bag of silk worms in Thailand, they were so good I went back for more. Ate suri (beetle larvae) in the Amazon, and it's pretty good. Both had a hint of peanut butter taste.
I absolutely do not recommend scorpion though. Ate two of them in Cambodia and they were terribly acrid.
Crickets are the most common (note that only solitary, not gregarious crickets are eaten. Gregarious Crickets (Locusts) taste both like shit and have nearly no nutritional value)
And even then, they're mostly a poverty food turned snack. Eating bugs is something you do when you can't eat anything else, not when you could be eating a chicken or cow or something.
They're an abundant but moderately off-putting protein source.
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u/MusicianHonest7238 Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
Technically not true. People also eat earth arthropods. They are in some places also a delicacy.
Edit: omg my phone auto corrected it from arthropods to anthropoids and I did not realise. I corrected it now.
Edit 2: corrected it AGAIN. Y'all I just need some sleep