Eat The Bugs - Megathread - 🪱🪳🦗🪲

Ahriman · Jan 19, 2023

ZazietheBeast said:
And watch as Luddism takes off when regular people are unable to make a decent living thanks to robots. Hell, might even make a religion out of it. Or simply retool pre-existing religions to turn against robots.

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If anything, they seem to be pushing for some sort of neo-feudalism, where all of us are serfs like 19th Century Russia.

Dysnomia · Jan 19, 2023

Flan Handler said:
Bugs are what I feed to the chickens, they love them, and I enjoy their delicious eggs. Why upset a fine partnership?

I mean, it would make more sense to cultivate bugs as food for livestock rather than direct human food. Little backyard or rooftop chicken runs could increase urban food resiliency in the face of supply chain shocks.

You can feed chickens weeds, kitchen scraps and bugs to supplement their grain, they love it.

You can compost the chicken manure for backyard or community gardens. It really could be beneficial if applied correctly. But where’s the humiliation there, I suppose?

No no no. Big Bug wants you to cut out the middle man. Forget the chickens and eggs. Just eat the bugs. :biggrin:

Never mind that the price of eggs is insane now.

I still think that most of this is just some stupid startups paying for articles promoting bugs. I am yet to see any bug foods where I shop. I'm assuming that they would be in the organic hipster section and would be more expensive than foods that do not contain bugs. So you would be better off buying one of those cheap tubes of hamburger than a $8 box of four cricket patties.

Even if the culture changed to accept bugs as food the price barrier will be an obstacle. If a working class or low income person can't afford it they won't buy it. It's the same with Beyond and Impossible. If it's not feasable to feed your family with it on a regular basis then it won't become a staple.

teriyakiburns · Jan 19, 2023

Android raptor said:
Escamoles are poverty food? Lmao

Fine. Usually poverty food, with some rare exceptions.

Android raptor · Jan 19, 2023

teriyakiburns said:
Fine. Usually poverty food, with some rare exceptions.

Magay worms and other notable edible insects in Mexico aren't exactly poverty food either

It's moreso the further away from the equator you get, the fewer bugs worth eating

Also some people seem to have a weird complex where they think their dick will fall off if they don't eat a mammal a day or some shit

teriyakiburns · Jan 19, 2023

Android raptor said:
Also some people seem to have a weird complex where they think their dick will fall off if they don't eat a mammal a day or some shit

My GP told me that exact thing. He said "terry, if you don't eat one mammal a day, your dick will fall off." He refused to be drawn on whether eating more than one would have the reverse effect.

ZazietheBeast · Jan 19, 2023

Dysnomia said:
No no no. Big Bug wants you to cut out the middle man. Forget the chickens and eggs. Just eat the bugs.

Never mind that the price of eggs is insane now.

I still think that most of this is just some stupid startups paying for articles promoting bugs. I am yet to see any bug foods where I shop. I'm assuming that they would be in the organic hipster section and would be more expensive than foods that do not contain bugs. So you would be better off buying one of those cheap tubes of hamburger than a $8 box of four cricket patties.

Even if the culture changed to accept bugs as food the price barrier will be an obstacle. If a working class or low income person can't afford it they won't buy it. It's the same with Beyond and Impossible. If it's not feasable to feed your family with it on a regular basis then it won't become a staple.

Looks like all those food facilities "mysteriously" burning down definitely did not contribute to the high prices. Fuck the antichrist.

Get a chicken or raise fish and lizards.

Otterly · Jan 19, 2023

Snekposter said:
Unlike bugs potatoes are tasty and quite nutritious, at least in terms of caloric content.

Loads of vitamin C as well.

Snekposter · Jan 19, 2023

teriyakiburns said:
My GP told me that exact thing. He said "terry, if you don't eat one mammal a day, your dick will fall off." He refused to be drawn on whether eating more than one would have the reverse effect.

You should probably eat several just to be sure, and just in case it has the opposite effect. What's the worst that happens, you have a bunch of tasty meals?

Flan Handler · Jan 19, 2023

Vegans are fake and hilarious. They have no idea how carbon-intensive it is to grow grains, and process all that horrible tasting soy into something approaching the flavour of meat.

I mean here’s the ingredient list for Beyond Burgers:

All those secondary and tertiary processes to produce this garbage. Why do plants need to taste like meat?

A cow basically converts water and sunlight into burgers without much effort. And they do it on marginal land that might not be good for grains.

Rotational intensive pasturing improves the soil and the health/vigor of the various plants, making it possible to raise more cows on the same land. There’s a good way to make the food system more resilient where appropriate.

They are never going to forgive Norman Borlaug, are they?

Android raptor · Jan 20, 2023

Flan Handler said:
Vegans are fake and hilarious. They have no idea how carbon-intensive it is to grow grains, and process all that horrible tasting soy into something approaching the flavour of meat.

I mean here’s the ingredient list for Beyond Burgers:
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All those secondary and tertiary processes to produce this garbage. Why do plants need to taste like meat?

A cow basically converts water and sunlight into burgers without much effort. And they do it on marginal land that might not be good for grains.

Rotational intensive pasturing improves the soil and the health/vigor of the various plants, making it possible to raise more cows on the same land. There’s a good way to make the food system more resilient where appropriate.

They are never going to forgive Norman Borlaug, are they?

What do vegans have to do with eating bugs?

DeadwastePrime · Jan 20, 2023

Android raptor said:
What do vegans have to do with eating bugs?

you dont remember that one episode of the simpsons where lisa begins eating bugs

Sincere Sinner · Jan 21, 2023

Flan Handler said:
I mean here’s the ingredient list for Beyond Burgers:
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My brothers in Christ, vegans, vegetarians, just stop eating meat substitutes.

This is some of the most horrifying, sneed oil infested, ultra processed faux food I've ever seen. This dogshit is every bit as bad for you as "junk food". I don't care if it's lentils or grass fed beef, just eat something that is ACTUAL food for God's sake.

Ahriman · Jan 21, 2023

Sincere Sinner said:
My brothers in Christ, vegans, vegetarians, just stop eating meat substitutes.

This is some of the most horrifying, sneed oil infested, ultra processed faux food I've ever seen. This dogshit is every bit as bad for you as "junk food". I don't care if it's lentils or grass fed beef, just eat something that is ACTUAL food for God's sake.

Sneed oils are everywhere.

notafederalagent · Mar 4, 2023

German ice cream parlor offers cricket-flavored scoops
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Associated Press Staff
2023-03-02 13:35:16GMT

Thomas Micolino, owner of Eiscafe Rino, holds an ice cream cone in Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)

Thomas Micolino, owner of Eiscafé Rino, scoops ice cream with crickets from a bowl in Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)

BERLIN (AP) — A German ice cream parlor has expanded its menu with a skin-crawling offering: cricket-flavored scoops with dried brown crickets on top.

The unusual confection is available at Thomas Micolino’s store in southern Germany’s town of Rottenburg am Neckar, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

Micolino has a habit of creating flavors that are far outside Germans’ typical preferences for strawberry, chocolate, banana and vanilla ice cream.

In the past, he’s offered liver sausage and Gorgonzola cheese ice cream as well gold-plated ice cream for 4 euros ($4.25) per scoop.

“I am a very curious person and want to try everything,” Micolino told dpa. “I’ve eaten a lot of things, including a lot of strange things, and crickets were something I still wanted to try, also in the form of ice cream.”

That he can now produce the cricket flavor is due to a European Union regulation that allows the use of the insects in food.

Under the regulation, crickets may be frozen, dried or used as a powder. The EU already allowed migratory locusts and flour beetle larvae as a food additive, dpa reported.

Micolino’s ice cream is made of cricket flour, heavy cream, vanilla extract and, honey, and he tops it with dried whole crickets. It has a “surprising yummy taste” — or at least that’s what he wrote on Instagram.

The creative vendor says that while some people are disgusted and even upset that he is offering insect ice cream, curious customers have mostly liked the new flavor.

“Those who try it are very enthusiastic,” Micolino said. “I have customers who come here every day and buy a scoop.”

One of his customers, Konstantin Dick, gave the cricket-infused flavor a positive review, telling dpa: “Yes, it’s really very tasty and edible.”

Another customer, Johann Peter Schwarze, also praised the ice cream’s creamy consistency, but added that “you can still sense the cricket in the ice cream.”

teriyakiburns · Mar 4, 2023

I can already get ice-cream that tastes like recycled shit at McDonalds. It even has bugs in it.

Duke Nukem · Mar 4, 2023

The Lawgiver said:
Yhere's a difference between unintentionaly eating a retarded spider that crawled into your mouth hole trap and being told the lie that breeding a potentially destructive species into existence solely to have them replace meat for the plebs of society will save the environment. I know this is a shitpost/joke/funny about america I'm replying to but like It's less about theactual act of eating bugs and more the whole "being forced as a power/status/ political theater thing. People in some places eat shit like mosquito eggs as a bit of extra flavor and a lot of red dyes infood thataren'tmade from chemicals are made from dead beetles. Even the cultures that eat more bugs than others they point to about "eating bugs is good!" eat normal meat on top of the bugs. "I will not eat the bugs" issimilar to"keep your fucking politics out of gaming" where a lotofthe people saying it are doing so as a backlash to a fucking specific kind of pretentious behavior infesting the brains of a lot of people with certain degrees of connections and status,usually from that one fucking part of california where this shit spawns.

The way they're pushing the bug shit isn't about environmentalism or animal welfare, it's about status. Reminds me of how Roman era slave/master stuff went sometimes. Being ordered to give oral sex to the master wasn't about the master's pleasure, but about reminding the slave of his/her status in the society. And this is what the elites want, for us all to be cocksuckers.

DeadwastePrime · Mar 4, 2023

notafederalagent said:
German ice cream parlor offers cricket-flavored scoops
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Associated Press Staff
2023-03-02 13:35:16GMT

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Thomas Micolino, owner of Eiscafe Rino, holds an ice cream cone in Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)
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Thomas Micolino, owner of Eiscafé Rino, scoops ice cream with crickets from a bowl in Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)

BERLIN (AP) — A German ice cream parlor has expanded its menu with a skin-crawling offering: cricket-flavored scoops with dried brown crickets on top.

The unusual confection is available at Thomas Micolino’s store in southern Germany’s town of Rottenburg am Neckar, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

Micolino has a habit of creating flavors that are far outside Germans’ typical preferences for strawberry, chocolate, banana and vanilla ice cream.

In the past, he’s offered liver sausage and Gorgonzola cheese ice cream as well gold-plated ice cream for 4 euros ($4.25) per scoop.

“I am a very curious person and want to try everything,” Micolino told dpa. “I’ve eaten a lot of things, including a lot of strange things, and crickets were something I still wanted to try, also in the form of ice cream.”

That he can now produce the cricket flavor is due to a European Union regulation that allows the use of the insects in food.

Under the regulation, crickets may be frozen, dried or used as a powder. The EU already allowed migratory locusts and flour beetle larvae as a food additive, dpa reported.

Micolino’s ice cream is made of cricket flour, heavy cream, vanilla extract and, honey, and he tops it with dried whole crickets. It has a “surprising yummy taste” — or at least that’s what he wrote on Instagram.

The creative vendor says that while some people are disgusted and even upset that he is offering insect ice cream, curious customers have mostly liked the new flavor.

“Those who try it are very enthusiastic,” Micolino said. “I have customers who come here every day and buy a scoop.”

One of his customers, Konstantin Dick, gave the cricket-infused flavor a positive review, telling dpa: “Yes, it’s really very tasty and edible.”

Another customer, Johann Peter Schwarze, also praised the ice cream’s creamy consistency, but added that “you can still sense the cricket in the ice cream.”

delicious finally some good fucking food

Ahriman · Apr 4, 2023

Italy BANS insects from pasta and pizza

Italians will not eat the bugs and they will be happy.

petersweden.substack.com

Here's a link to the actual decree (in Italian).

”What the decrees provide for is a label with the origin of the product, the risks associated with consumption and the quantity of insect meal present, but we have also provided special shelves where they can be displayed inside the shops..those who want to choose crickets, larvae and locusts can go there and those who don't want to, as I imagine most Italians, can keep away" said Francesco Lollobrigida, Minister of Agriculture

And as many know by now, they've already imposed a sanction against lab-grown meat shortly after.

Do NOT mess with an Italian's food, that's where they go absolutely ballistic.

You WILL eat real pasta
You WILL eat real Bolognese sauce
And you WILL be happy

:semperfidelis:

Snekposter · Apr 4, 2023

Ahriman said:
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Italy BANS insects from pasta and pizza

Italians will not eat the bugs and they will be happy.

petersweden.substack.com

Here's a link to the actual decree (in Italian).

And as many know by now, they've already imposed a sanction against lab-grown meat shortly after.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EcyNFy0g2Bc
Do NOT mess with an Italian's food, that's where they go absolutely ballistic.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1qvQ4aUw4QY
You WILL eat real pasta
You WILL eat real Bolognese sauce
And you WILL be happy

Great, you're making me want some pesto now...

Ahriman · Apr 11, 2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5qrmNr6th/

At the Insect Banquet in Thailand's village of Ban Khok Kham, hundreds of audacious foodies assemble to indulge in slimy, crunchy, and downright repulsive insect dishes. This bizarre culinary experience, featuring gooey ant larvae and the unsettling crunch of grasshopper legs, is not for the faint of heart. The International Insect Banquet is more than just a culinary event; it's a cultural exchange that fosters understanding and appreciation for entomophagy’s traditions and environmental benefits. As participants savor each delectable morsel, they are reminded of the untapped potential of these sustainable food sources and their power in addressing global hunger and environmental challenges.

Agenda 2030. Avert your eyes.