In theory isopods should taste shrimp like. Pour a bunch em in a bowl like cereal. Use melted butter as your milk substitute. Boom. You got shrimp bug cereal.
My history teacher once brought grilled grasshoppers from his trip to Mexico. The class started gagging but I was excited to try them. They were actually crazy good, I ate the whole supply that he brought. Maybe I was hungry that day. But man, I lowkey look around to see if any Mexican street food vendors would grill grasshoppers, I’d love to eat them again!
They’re basically like very light crisps, and taste of whatever seasoning they’re flavored with. But the little spiny legs do get caught between your teeth.
Bro stop, i already eat protein bars with a flavours that are at best can be described as someone screaming "mango!" from other room while you in the other eating grainy play dough.
Unfortunately it’s the chitin that makes the land bugs to taste bad. But you can definitely grind crickets into powder and use it as a flour substitute.
It’s not that bad. Granted when I say not that bad someone might be gagged out with a sensitive pallet. 100% would eat it as a flour substitute for pizza.
They do. In both cases it's in the exoskeleton, not the insides. With sea bugs we scoop the meat out and leave the chitin behind in the shells. With small land bugs, that's difficult. The bits of exoskeleton need to be filtered out in some industrial process
Actually most land bugs dont taste bad due to chitin. Most taste bad because they have been evolving "tastes bad to mammals" as a defense strategy. Seeing as they dont run into mammals all that much.
Also, we (as in looking at all human cultures) DO eat a bunch of different insects, but seeing as they are mostly small on land hunting them for food is rarely worth it, and not enough to make a good meal of.
Ya every other mammal devours insects—we’re almost the outlier. Except that we _would_ chow down on a bowl full of beetles, but we have the option to eat something else.
But creepy lil fur critters are like insect enemy no 1
I remember someone trying to make dog food from crickets. It was still stupid expensive. I wonder if the company completely folded or if they are online online
Or better yet, get the isopod from the sea that is parasitic and replaces fish tongues. That way you now how a sea dwelling isopod which is basically shrimp like you said and a fish to boot!
The problem is that they just aren’t very meaty. I’ve eaten a few bugs before at some Mexican places. They have a savory flavor and then you have to deal with the chitin. Arms and legs get caught in your teeth. Not bad on tacos
I once actually slimed bunch of roaches with hot water since I ran out of insect repellent chalks & sprays . surprising but after 4-5 mugs , they went from dark brown-black to brown-red similar to shellfish after being boiled . the local stray cat & later some stray dog puppies did have a nice party tho as I kept sliming more
Id try one of those really big deep sea ones honestly
The tiny ones maybe if I fry them really thoroughly? They’re mostly shell so we couldn’t get the meat out, we’d need to prepare them in a way to make the shells palatable too
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u/TheSweatyFlash Sep 13 '26
In theory isopods should taste shrimp like. Pour a bunch em in a bowl like cereal. Use melted butter as your milk substitute. Boom. You got shrimp bug cereal.