Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
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Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
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Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#2Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat.
Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either.
In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will.
And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct does nothing for the ick factor.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#3Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat. Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either. In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will. And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct do…
Lobster is a bug; it used to be 'ick' and now its 'yum'. The ick factor is cultural. No reason the OP can't be right - if bugs are tasty, and some people start eating them, and then more people, they could easily become a regular thing.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#4Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat. Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either. In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will. And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct do…
Lobster is a bug; it used to be 'ick' and now its 'yum'. The ick factor is cultural. No reason the OP can't be right - if bugs are tasty, and some people start eating them, and then more people, they could easily become a regular thing.
Yeah after reading the article I am slightly less skeptical - the headline, as usual, war promising way too much.
That said we are going to look at a timeline of decades rather than tomorrow. I mean Tofu has been around for how long? And it is still somewhat of the beaten path.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#5Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat. Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either. In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will. And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct do…
Lobster is a bug; it used to be 'ick' and now its 'yum'. The ick factor is cultural. No reason the OP can't be right - if bugs are tasty, and some people start eating them, and then more people, they could easily become a regular thing.
That applies to more than just bugs. Given a long enough timeline, anything nutritious could become culturally mainstream. That doesn't guarantee that it will.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#6Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat. Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either. In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will. And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct do…
You didn't read the article. I can tell because my initial reaction was much like yours, but after reading an article all about cricket flour I realize it doesn't matter to the topic at hand. What obstacles there are to serving people whole insects are perhaps not wholly absent to serving them as an invisible ingredient, but are certainly greatly less.
If insects are going to be introduced into the American diet, this is exactly how it will start. And may well end; I could easily see whole insects never going mainstream. But... they don't have to.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#7And you thought chicken farms were disgusting...
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#8You can buy some on Amazon today for $40 a pound: http://www.amazon.com/JR-Unique-Foods-Cricket-Flour/dp/B00OM...
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#9Unlikely. They are icky, unappealing and do not have the "man" quality one gets from real meat. Food is mostly about taste and convenience today, because we have access to enough of it - insects doesn't really give you either. In short it is highly unlikely that I will wake up tomorrow and eat insects, nor that the majority in the developed world will. And yes shrimp may technically be insects. Technically correct do…
It would only take a generation to change that.
Re: Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow
#10People have been publishing this article every few months for as long as I can remember.
They may well be an efficient form of protein but... squick. Basically.