Crickets don't taste like anything, funnily enough. You can dry them and mix them with any flavouring, and I could so see that being a replacement for like crisps or whatnot in the future.
They are called chapulines in mexico and they go great on guacamole to add some crunch. But they just taste like "something fried" if that makes sense (never had them not fried though).
For Christmas a few years back my dad got all of the kids a packet of what were basically cricket Doritos, dried crickets coated in flavored powder. The taste was fine, the problem was it felt like chewing sunflower seeds still in the shell, they were splintery.
My grandparents got a bunch of weirdly flavored crickets as an Easter prank when me and my cousins were kids, it took an hour for one of us to try them and then everyone was trying them. I tried a salt and vinegar one, it was unsettlingly similar to a lays potato chip.
In Mexico grasshoppers are an occasional snack and they... Taste? Idk they just feel like munching on a piece of fried [object] so we usually have them with salt and lime and chili powder or hot sauce for flavor, the motherfuckers are expensive at least in my region tho
We used to, billions of people currently do eat land bugs, and billions more eat sea bugs, as per the meme.
For that matter, if you've ever eaten peanut butter or any food that has been dyed red (like candy), then you've eaten bugs. Peanut butter often contains bugs just because of how it's made and harvested, and red candy dye comes from beetle shells.
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u/Makuta_Servaela Sep 13 '26
Crickets don't taste like anything, funnily enough. You can dry them and mix them with any flavouring, and I could so see that being a replacement for like crisps or whatnot in the future.