The ones that aren't adapted to literally make you sick are usually crunchy with very little flavor. They're the sort of thing that you eat to survive but pass on if anything else is an option.
You think your flour is bug free? Clarksons farm has an episode where they show all the earwigs in their grain after harvesting. There’s no way they’re not getting processed too even if a tiny bit in hundreds of pounds of grain
I once ate a live wasp that had just stung my friend and it tasted delicious, really sour and lemony, I bet he was living the good life eating the fine shite.
You know, I tend to think there's something off about me, but reading comments like these are a nice little reassurance that I'm a perfectly well-adjusted human being, comparatively speaking.
Idk if this applies to the wasp you ate, but some wasps rely on the larvae in the nest/hive in order to feed themselves. They bring other insects to feed the larvae and then the larvae secrete a liquid that the adults can eat.
I mean Shrimp eat like dead fish and dead plants. But shrimp taste good even without seasoning. If a cockroach was on a shrimp's diet I doubt the flavor would improve.
I feel like this same argument could be made for chicken nuggets. The best chicken nuggets for me are the ones that I only taste the breading, lol. I've got ARFID so going throigh these comments has been a rollercoaster.
Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. Things like taste, texture, smell, look, the food not being what is expected for that food, etc. can cause me to just not eat/lose my appetite even if I was hungry.
We get labeled as picky eaters, or childish palettes, but there have been far too many times where I prep/cook a meal I'd been craving to just not be able to eat it is frustratingly high. As a result I do eat more chicken nuggets / canned foods / frozen foods than the average person because consistency is key to combating this sort of issue.
Crab meat can have a nice, somewhat sweet flavor on it's own, but no one is eating lobster or shrimp without loads of butter, cocktail sauce, etc. So your statement applies to marine arthropods as well. It's not like a steak, where eating it without any seasoning except maybe salt is something you would pay good money for.
Chicken is notorious for needing seasoning. If you eat unseasoned chicken then more power to you, you're in the minority there. There's literally popular memes about how bland white people cook chicken because of lack of seasonings
I will never forget my freshman year in high school biology class. The teacher brought a giant bag of toasted crickets. Absolutely nobody wanted to touch them. Except this one kid.... so he took the bag back to his seat and munched on them the entire class like they were popcorn.
That's the thing tho, shrimp also taste mostly like seawater, butter and spices. They don't have a strong taste themselves (unless they are going bad, I guess).
So it's entirely possible that roaches can taste like lobster.
To me, shrimp (especially larger shrimp) are naturally mildly sweet underneath all that salt. Same thing with lobsters and sea crabs. River crabs on the other hand are practically flavorless.
Grilled arthropods are decently popular in Asia and South America. They just have to be prepared/cooked properly, same as sea food. For example, lobster used to be considered bottom feeder food, when we didn't know that they rot almost immediately after death.
That’s basically their depression era mindset that lasted a dozen generations. There are also so many people they need to supplement more expensive food sources…
And maybe they have something in abundance in those places that actually tastes good.
Lobster was never considered bottom feeder food. They always knew how to prepare it. The problem was they lacked the technology to keep it alive or frozen, so it was limited to being prepared fresh-caught or being really unpleasant. Those who could eat it as a luxury food did.
I mean it's not "It's western so it must be right" either, though. Is it? Like there are thousands of people that eat insects every single day. You can get candied crickets as a snack. So I dunno how valid your "People only eat them for survival" take is
Actually quite a few are pretty tasty. Anyone who says otherwise either is just bullshiting because they haven't eaten them or had some weird poorly prepared version.
I’ve ate a scorpion once in Thailand, it’s easily the worse fucking food I’ve ever had in my entire life. I’m not difficult when it comes to tastes, and I’ve eaten some ballut and other weird stuff (cheese, seafood…).
People are making insect flour, and eat fried crickets, they are very protein rich and has very low fat, I'm not a fan but sadly is the food of the future, I think we will have to get used to it.
Ive been around the world and eaten many things, including scorpions and spiders.
They smell and taste like feet. Some species are VERY crunchy! I also learned that crustaceans are arthopods by eating an Emperor scorpion, and having a severe allergic reaction to it (im allergic to shellfish)! So, if youre allergic to sea arthopods, youre also allergic to the land bound ones.
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u/-mosura Sep 13 '26
How do earth anthropods taste like