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I guess if you take grass, deep fry it and put cummin on it, it tastes ok too.
You can eat a cucumber, a carrot, an apple or a steak raw. Even things you need to cook, such as wheet or potatoes, taste alrigh by just being boiled in water.
It’s not so strange to eat bugs. Aren’t crustaceans, particularly crawfish and the like, the bugs of the sea? They certainly look and behave like insects, scavenging the ocean floor.
How many bugs do you know that live in the ocean?
I'd say they're fairly different, unless you want to also support the claim that we should all eat whale, since they're related to deer.
I look into this every couple years and I have yet to find anything good.
Because they’re gross looking and honestly don’t taste that great (speaking from experience). It’s not rocket science.
If you take any bug and you eat it without cooking it, you risk diseases or venom, and you'll get a hard crunch shell.
So batch preparing those little things requires deep fry, which is a quite recent addition to our life.
Besides, it was hard to safely gather or raise enough of them to nourish a village. So we did eat some of them anecdoticly, but that's all.
https://youtu.be/yxXoRtRr3WE?t=65
Also happens to be hilarious, but I don't disagree with the point he's making.
TL;DR Most people don't live like that because more desirable choices are available, and they're prepared to spend more to achieve that.
A comment was deleted, which said, > For the same reason we don’t eat grass. We get them preprocessed by other animals and then eat them instead because they are tastier. The reason we don’t eat grass is because our digestive system can’t really absorb much energy from it. Eating grass requires a very specialized digestive system, and we just don’t have those specializations. The reason grass isn’t tasty is because o…
One thing about some insects - I used to have fish in an aquarium that were large enough to eat crickets in one bite, and every single insect I caught in our home and put in the water also had parasitic worms that tried to escape the host insect immediately when it realized the insect was in water - these parasitic worms seem to take up most of the insects abdomen. This might not be a problem in non tropical parts of…
Because they’re gross looking and honestly don’t taste that great (speaking from experience). It’s not rocket science.
The idea that all bugs are gross is largely due to unfamiliarity. Most unfamiliar foods are considered gross the first time someone tries them (as anyone with kids can attest).
With that said, some of the large ants commonly eaten in southern Mexico are extremely bitter. Not my favorite for sure.