Would you eat insects?

have eaten live and dried meal worm, freeze dried crickets, ants, earthworms, bees. not bad. Earthworms dried are bacon-ish. None were bad, just prefer to not recognize what they are.

Earthworms aren't insects, but close enough! I've never thought of eating them dried.... I still instinctively save worms after a rainstorm by picking them up and bringing them to grass so that they don't get caught on the sidewalk and dry up. I'm probably responsible for many baby birds starving to death

Also not insects: scorpions. But closely related, so we'll count them as well.

Hate to tell you this, but once you touch an earthworm with your fingers they die... Something in our skin kills them:/

You're kidding me? Whoops haha

I've actually eaten a lot of fried meal worms. I used to do a bat program working as a naturalist, and part of the presentation was eating a fried meal worm and passing them out to students who wanted to try one too. I liked the spicy ones better than the bbq ones. We had those and some fried crickets available in our gift shop. The problem with the crickets is when the legs get stuck to your tongue!

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have eaten live and dried meal worm, freeze dried crickets, ants, earthworms, bees. not bad. Earthworms dried are bacon-ish. None were bad, just prefer to not recognize what they are.

Earthworms aren't insects, but close enough! I've never thought of eating them dried.... I still instinctively save worms after a rainstorm by picking them up and bringing them to grass so that they don't get caught on the sidewalk and dry up. I'm probably responsible for many baby birds starving to death

Also not insects: scorpions. But closely related, so we'll count them as well.

Hate to tell you this, but once you touch an earthworm with your fingers they die... Something in our skin kills them:/

I'd like to see your source for that. I've never heard of that, and haven't found any reliable sources about the issue either. They are vulnerable to any products you might have on your hands, but so are all amphibians, fish, and anything else that requires highly moist skin. If you hold it out long enough to dry out, it will die, but moving it off a sidewalk certainly won't do it much harm.

Why not? I can think of way grosser things to eat, most of which I've seen on Fear Factor.

I do not eat bugs because I'm a vegetarian, but they're very popular here in Thailand. Cheap protein. There are even little carts that people push around town to sell them, like this:



To see more, you can Google: Thailand fried bugs :laugh: Enjoy!

I would! Just because, well, a sucka's gotta know.

Sure. I've had chocolate covered ants before and they were actually pretty nice. I also at a live earthworm, but it was when I was 7. But I'd try different types. The one thing that I want to try that somehow has more of a ick factor than insects is snake. I really want to try some, but it really grosses me out.

have eaten all sorts of insects & would eat them again (apart from really fat grubs - they taste like dirt). crickets are crunchy & pretty good unless the legs are a bit spiky!

i refuse to eat crabs & prawns & such because they have too many legs.
if you eat them, why not eat bugs?

Thanks for the answers so far!

Just to be clear, we are talking about cooked (not live) insects, and only the edible species.

Why limit yourself?

I've eaten various fried and live insects (a small red beetle sold in Oaxaca market) many many times.
They are good and easy to access in certains locals.
Fried crickets (chapulines) are delicious and protein rich, if i could buy them here, I'd have them as a snack all the time.

Maguey worms? I don't like.
cheese maggots? Pick them out.

Chahuis? Spicy! Served great in tacos.
Dried mopane worms? Crispy and nice.
Escamoles? (ant larvae) like a little caviar.

Various locusts are kosher, too.

I bet every person has unintentionally eaten bugs in their lifetime. The F.D.A. actually allows a certain percentage in our food. Google it!

Crickets:




Bees (and larvae)

I would only eat bugs if I was on a deserted island and I had nothing else to eat...but even then I'd try to get some fish first!!

Yes, if they were prepared with the intent to eat them I would try them.