Insect flavors of the month
This article was submitted by Barb Ogg, PhD, Extension Educator,
University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County. The
article appeared in the Nebline Newsletter. Dates: April 1996 and
updated October 1998.

Grasshoppers, termites and grubs are not typical American cuisine, but
many cultures eat insects with great relish. What do bugs taste like?
Here is a sampling....

--Raw termites taste like pineapple and cooked termites have a delicate,
vegetable flavor.=A0

--Grubs (which are larvae) of palm weevils taste like beef bone
marrow.=A0

--Fried agave worms (canned in Mexico) taste like sunflower seeds.=A0

--Diving beetles (available in Chinatown in San Francisco) taste
something like clams.=A0

--Fried grasshoppers taste like sardines.=A0

--French-fried ants (imported from Colombia) taste like beef jerky.=A0

--A praying mantis, fried over an open fire, tastes like shrimp and raw
mushrooms.=A0

--Fried wax moth larvae taste like corn puffs or potato chips.=A0

--Fried spiders taste like nuts.=A0

--Fried baby bees taste like smoked fish or oysters.=A0

Unappetizing? Consider that honey, a food that is appropriate in our
culture, has been swallowed and regurgitated hundreds of times by honey
bees. Source: Invisible Bugs and Other Creepy Creatures That Live With
You.

Picky ~JA~ (Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like
chicken?)

_.-In rec.food.cooking, Richard's ~JA~ wrote the following -._
> Grasshoppers, termites and grubs are not typical American cuisine, but
> many cultures eat insects with great relish.

Boy was I dissapointed with not finding a relish recipe in here. I
was suprised that more bugs weren't included. As well as a note that
TTBOMK only 600 speicies of bugs ae ediable. And that eating some
types of bugs is a very bad idea.
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