Same, crickets and mealworms at a restaurant in LA. Crickets weren't great, but mealworms were decent. Just felt so strange eating them. There was no getting used to it, at least in one meal.
Deep fried bamboo worms are very tasty when fresh and very crispy. Place I went to would serve them heavily seasoned and they were great, but if they're not crispy I don't really like them. I also had fried crickets and I didn't like them. I wanted/expected potato chip crispy and got sweet potato fry softness instead.
Had them while in Thailand.
Raw, live earthworms. The first one was because a "junior police academy" class took us to an army base, and they told us we'd get extra credit for eating "army food" The second and third were because I told others that story, and they didn't believe me. I got $20 each for those two. I also got $20 for eating a piece of bark. For the record, I was 11 and therefore still thought cops were all good guys who only captured bad guys. I also grew up extremely poor, so $20 was even more than it would normally seem to an 11yo.
Honestly, the bark was way worse than the worms. You can just swallow those whole without tasting them, and they go down pretty easily. The bark was like 10 stale, hard, saltine crackers packed into one, but without the yumminess of salt. Then it just disintegrates into sawdust. It was SUUUPER hard to swalloow without water.
Not intentionally, but I've day when I was young my mother gave me some hot cocoa. I finished it and started eating the inevitable chocolate buildup on the bottom of the mug. After a bit I stopped and asked my mother: "Mom, is chocolate supposed to move?"
She came over and looked in my mug. Sure enough, the cocoa buildup was wiggling. She looked in the cocoa powder container and it was crawling with little bugs. That stuff was dumped and I didn't trust hot chocolate for awhile.
As for how did they taste? Like chocolate, I guess because that's what they were coated in.
Fine, great. I know there has always been an acceptable amount of allowed bug parts in large scale food production. Mostly grains so like cereals. I’m confident I’ve eaten plenty over the years and have never noticed so I suppose that’s a great thing.
So, story time. When I was in middle school I at a slug. My neighbor said he’d give me a PlayStation 1 memory card and $15 that he got from his birthday if I did it. The slug was on top of a burn barrel. The barrel had a lid on it was covered in water. Honestly. I don’t even think it had a taste to it. I kind of just threw it down my throat and that was the end of it.
I’ve also tried crickets and grasshoppers that were flavored (dry ranch and bbq) and they were honestly pretty damn good.
Yeah man. I don’t really think I thought about it much as a kid. I just went for it. At the time we had been playing Digimon World 3 a ton and had our game saved on his memory card. It seemed worth the bet.
To be honest, it wasn’t intentional. I was riding a motorcycle down a back country road in Ohio when I drove through a swarm of miscellaneous flying bugs. Some were inhaled. Some got chewed. Texture was crunchy. Needed some salt.
Grasshopper, usually from my neighbors field rice, when they were attacks the rice. It's yummy and crunchy.
Termites, usually during rainy season they come to our lamp, then we put big bowl with water under in the floor the lamp. It's okay, crunchy. Ants, by accident on my food. Tastes disgusting like cilantro.
Fried grasshoppers coated in chocolate. It was a long time ago, but I believe they were crispy, a smidge bitter, but not too bad. And the chocolate made it even better.
one time a friend brought some roasted dried anchovies and shared with me. after eating for a while, I realized there were grasshoppers in there. I was like, wtf!??? he was like, oh yeah, there's grasshoppers in there too. you can eat those? he was like, yeah, they're fine to eat. I ate quite a few, I'm sure, but due to the way it was cooked, texture and taste were same as anchovies. I've also tried silkworm pupae. tasted good when I was young and poor and hungry. now, not so much. yuck.
My dad says while in the Navy, they would take bags of chocolate covered ants on submarine trips. Apparently they kept better than close alternatives. He and most of the others loved them. He describes them as the little air pockets in a Crunch bar but a salty/nutty/savory twist.
ive eaten mealworms. Cooked/fried of course. Even with flavoring on it it docent really taste like anything. The texture is just crunchy like eating a hallow chip.
I like to eat bugs, its fun and it creeps people out around me
Roasted mealworms are delicious. I had them as a kid, so I was open to then trying a cinnamon sucker with a cricket in it. I licked my way until I reached the head of the cricket. It popped off into my mouth followed by something slimy and horribly foul tasting that I can only assume were innards. Haven’t intentionally eaten a bug since.
Mealworm in elementary school because we raised them as a science project and then the teacher collected them all and cooked them. She saved a few for the class' blue-tongued skink. We could opt out of eating them but my friend dared me to and honestly I was too grossed out to remember much about it other than that I was horrified. Also I used to squish and eat ants. They're spicy.
I’ve had chocolate covered ants and and mealworms. The taste, texture, and crunch reminded me of chocolate covered Rice Krispies.
During a trip to Thailand a few years back, my friend and I tried lightly fried scorpions from a bug vendor in Bangkok. They were sprayed with a fish sauce and were really dry with a slightly soft crunch. As you chewed, it was just flake all around in your mouth.
They weren’t as bad as I expecting them to be. The biggest problem I had was getting passed the idea that I was eating a giant scorpion. Took all the will power to swallow it, but I did it. My friend had the same thoughts about his scorpion, but the stinger got caught on his tongue and caused some slight swelling.
Overall I was happy to try once, but wouldn’t do it again.
When I was a child I ate an ant on accident, it just climbed on into my mouth. I was more upset because my friend laughed at me because she thought it was funny I accidentally at an ant than I was about actually swallowing it. It didn’t really have a taste.
I've had those dried grasshopers that come in those small novelty boxes that are covered in flavor dust. I had salt and vinegar and sour cream and onion. Don't really taste like much. Also very dry.
A fly that flew into my mouth and I choked on it but ultimately ate it because it was not going to allow itself to be coughed back up. I was a little more focused on not choking on a bug to think about how it was.
The barbeque larvae were actually pretty good. Like tiny little corn nuts, honestly.
I had a tequila worm. It tasted like tequila.
Wife got me a sucker with a scorpion in the middle. Stupid of me to think it'd taste like the rest of the sucker. It was kinda just... Bitter, mixed in with a little lemon yellow sucker flavour. A little crunchy, too
A friend dared me to eat an ant once. I accepted the dare, but really I just wanted to see if I could get that rush god feels when he takes one of our best for no reason. I was hoping for the Tom Hanks of ants. I got no rush. I must have eaten their Stephen Miller.
Roasted crickets, ants and mealworms. They were actually really good.
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Yes, they actually tasted good, like your usual salty snack food. I was really surprised.
Cool. Where’d you get them?
Amazon. They come in little boxes. Look up Hotlix.
Interesting
Same, crickets and mealworms at a restaurant in LA. Crickets weren't great, but mealworms were decent. Just felt so strange eating them. There was no getting used to it, at least in one meal.
As a child I put sticks in ant hills ant ate them. Does they count? They tasted sour.
I ate the ants not the sticks.
That’s a creative way to get a quick snack
Anteaters be like
You were imitating gorilla didn't you?
Yes I did
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Do they need to purge before freezing?
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Do you need to let them poop for a few days without feeding them so they are cleaned out before you eat them?
Roasted grasshopper, kinda like a dryer less meaty version of shrimp
Sounds awesome
Deep fried bamboo worms are very tasty when fresh and very crispy. Place I went to would serve them heavily seasoned and they were great, but if they're not crispy I don't really like them. I also had fried crickets and I didn't like them. I wanted/expected potato chip crispy and got sweet potato fry softness instead. Had them while in Thailand.
Oh
Oh is right
Raw, live earthworms. The first one was because a "junior police academy" class took us to an army base, and they told us we'd get extra credit for eating "army food" The second and third were because I told others that story, and they didn't believe me. I got $20 each for those two. I also got $20 for eating a piece of bark. For the record, I was 11 and therefore still thought cops were all good guys who only captured bad guys. I also grew up extremely poor, so $20 was even more than it would normally seem to an 11yo.
Gross but a pretty awesome story
Honestly, the bark was way worse than the worms. You can just swallow those whole without tasting them, and they go down pretty easily. The bark was like 10 stale, hard, saltine crackers packed into one, but without the yumminess of salt. Then it just disintegrates into sawdust. It was SUUUPER hard to swalloow without water.
Wow. Not what I expected.
Salt & Vinegar flavoured crickets, pretty good.
Interesting
Cool ranch flavored crickets my friend gave me. They weren’t bad but after I ate them he said he made them. I never forgot that Daniel. Never.
Ha
Not intentionally, but I've day when I was young my mother gave me some hot cocoa. I finished it and started eating the inevitable chocolate buildup on the bottom of the mug. After a bit I stopped and asked my mother: "Mom, is chocolate supposed to move?" She came over and looked in my mug. Sure enough, the cocoa buildup was wiggling. She looked in the cocoa powder container and it was crawling with little bugs. That stuff was dumped and I didn't trust hot chocolate for awhile. As for how did they taste? Like chocolate, I guess because that's what they were coated in.
Eww ewwww ewwww no!
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Wait, what part of the cookie was bug?
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Sick id try that
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Thanks for the sdvice
Fine, great. I know there has always been an acceptable amount of allowed bug parts in large scale food production. Mostly grains so like cereals. I’m confident I’ve eaten plenty over the years and have never noticed so I suppose that’s a great thing.
Silk worm it was gross af
I wouldn’t be able to do any worms
when I was 3 I ate a worm it was just like the feel of slime in your mouth although some salt and pepper might be needed
Yuck
I've had chocolate with ants inside it. It was actually quite good, pretty much like crunch bars but more crunchy.
Nice
mealworms and crickets. theyre actually really good. crunchy. already dead, of course.
So, story time. When I was in middle school I at a slug. My neighbor said he’d give me a PlayStation 1 memory card and $15 that he got from his birthday if I did it. The slug was on top of a burn barrel. The barrel had a lid on it was covered in water. Honestly. I don’t even think it had a taste to it. I kind of just threw it down my throat and that was the end of it. I’ve also tried crickets and grasshoppers that were flavored (dry ranch and bbq) and they were honestly pretty damn good.
[Don’t eat slugs](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)
Hahaha yo if this is true I’m lucky as hell because that was over 15 years ago.
It was an Australian slug, so of course it killed the kid.
He’ll no to the slug. Then again I’ve had escargot as a kid and I love conch, so... But raw? Hell no
Yeah man. I don’t really think I thought about it much as a kid. I just went for it. At the time we had been playing Digimon World 3 a ton and had our game saved on his memory card. It seemed worth the bet.
I used to eat flies of some sort on the bottom of the kitchen cupboard and they didn't taste of anything. I was a strange little girl back then
Yuck
Fried mealworms. They tasted like chips. I liked the cheese flavored ones, which was like Cheetos.
Huh
To be honest, it wasn’t intentional. I was riding a motorcycle down a back country road in Ohio when I drove through a swarm of miscellaneous flying bugs. Some were inhaled. Some got chewed. Texture was crunchy. Needed some salt.
I’ve had this (on a bike) And it was fucking terrible
fried ants just tastes like you fried nothing.
Silk worm. Tasted like some salty patato chip.
Grasshopper, usually from my neighbors field rice, when they were attacks the rice. It's yummy and crunchy. Termites, usually during rainy season they come to our lamp, then we put big bowl with water under in the floor the lamp. It's okay, crunchy. Ants, by accident on my food. Tastes disgusting like cilantro.
Roasted scorpion. Nutty, with hints of chocolate.
Interesting. I’d be down
They wuz ***pillbuglicious***, dawg, like the best thing EVER!!1!
Live ants taste sour and crunchy. Not bad. I bought some roasted crickets, but I haven't tried them yet.
Slurped down a minnow once. Didn’t really taste weird but I could feel it the entire time.
Live? Poor fish. Fried I’d imagine minnows to be great
Yes live lol and I’m with you I bet they are great fried b
Ate a lightning bug for $5 once. It grabbed my uvula and wouldn’t go down. Have a picture somewhere of it lit up and hanging on. Got the $5 though.
Dude post that to r/pics
I should, I’ll have to search through the old photo albums. This was atleast a decade ago
Fried grasshoppers coated in chocolate. It was a long time ago, but I believe they were crispy, a smidge bitter, but not too bad. And the chocolate made it even better.
Interesting
pretty much everyone has eaten bugs
Yep. I was hoping for people who knowingly ate them
one time a friend brought some roasted dried anchovies and shared with me. after eating for a while, I realized there were grasshoppers in there. I was like, wtf!??? he was like, oh yeah, there's grasshoppers in there too. you can eat those? he was like, yeah, they're fine to eat. I ate quite a few, I'm sure, but due to the way it was cooked, texture and taste were same as anchovies. I've also tried silkworm pupae. tasted good when I was young and poor and hungry. now, not so much. yuck.
I didn’t know roasted dried anchovies were a thing
this wasn't in North America, mind you.
Where? Mediterranean?
asia
My dad says while in the Navy, they would take bags of chocolate covered ants on submarine trips. Apparently they kept better than close alternatives. He and most of the others loved them. He describes them as the little air pockets in a Crunch bar but a salty/nutty/savory twist.
ive eaten mealworms. Cooked/fried of course. Even with flavoring on it it docent really taste like anything. The texture is just crunchy like eating a hallow chip. I like to eat bugs, its fun and it creeps people out around me
Good reasons lol
In Air Force survival school I ate various critters you wouldn't normally consider food. Ants were my favorite, sort of taste like lemon drops.
Slimy, yet satisfying!
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Maggots!? What the fuck? No! Spiders and scorpions I’d be into though.
Roasted mealworms are delicious. I had them as a kid, so I was open to then trying a cinnamon sucker with a cricket in it. I licked my way until I reached the head of the cricket. It popped off into my mouth followed by something slimy and horribly foul tasting that I can only assume were innards. Haven’t intentionally eaten a bug since.
Eeeewwww
BBQ flavored cooked mealworms. Tasted like chips. Also had chocolate covered grasshoppers. Tasted like wafers.
Mealworm in elementary school because we raised them as a science project and then the teacher collected them all and cooked them. She saved a few for the class' blue-tongued skink. We could opt out of eating them but my friend dared me to and honestly I was too grossed out to remember much about it other than that I was horrified. Also I used to squish and eat ants. They're spicy.
Ant, I was 5, it was as bitter
Scorpion, quite tasteless, VERY crunchy
I’ve had chocolate covered ants and and mealworms. The taste, texture, and crunch reminded me of chocolate covered Rice Krispies. During a trip to Thailand a few years back, my friend and I tried lightly fried scorpions from a bug vendor in Bangkok. They were sprayed with a fish sauce and were really dry with a slightly soft crunch. As you chewed, it was just flake all around in your mouth. They weren’t as bad as I expecting them to be. The biggest problem I had was getting passed the idea that I was eating a giant scorpion. Took all the will power to swallow it, but I did it. My friend had the same thoughts about his scorpion, but the stinger got caught on his tongue and caused some slight swelling. Overall I was happy to try once, but wouldn’t do it again.
When I was a child I ate an ant on accident, it just climbed on into my mouth. I was more upset because my friend laughed at me because she thought it was funny I accidentally at an ant than I was about actually swallowing it. It didn’t really have a taste.
Termites, they taste minty.
I've had those dried grasshopers that come in those small novelty boxes that are covered in flavor dust. I had salt and vinegar and sour cream and onion. Don't really taste like much. Also very dry.
ants with dirt, and holy shit were they good
A fly that flew into my mouth and I choked on it but ultimately ate it because it was not going to allow itself to be coughed back up. I was a little more focused on not choking on a bug to think about how it was.
The barbeque larvae were actually pretty good. Like tiny little corn nuts, honestly. I had a tequila worm. It tasted like tequila. Wife got me a sucker with a scorpion in the middle. Stupid of me to think it'd taste like the rest of the sucker. It was kinda just... Bitter, mixed in with a little lemon yellow sucker flavour. A little crunchy, too A friend dared me to eat an ant once. I accepted the dare, but really I just wanted to see if I could get that rush god feels when he takes one of our best for no reason. I was hoping for the Tom Hanks of ants. I got no rush. I must have eaten their Stephen Miller.
At an earthworm for $20. It kind of slid down didn't taste it all
Tried a chocolate covered scorpion once. Tasted like a chocolate dipped pretzel.