EATING BUGS THOUGH

I think going outside and picking up a bug like “oh I’m just going to snack on this today” is what grosses a lot of people out. It’s kind of like just going outdoors and picking up something random and eating it. People think it’s nasty because it’s just chilling out in nature. Also, people usually associate bugs with uncleanliness and being unsanitary, so that’s another reason why folks are very willing to snack on them. Before this class, I didn’t know that crustaceans and insects were in the same phylum. This is weird because I am totally okay with chowing down on shrimp, crabs, and lobsters, but the thought of eating a caterpillar or a dragonfly makes me want to puke. I thought about people freaking out about eating bugs and not freaking out about seafood again when we were reading about the dragonfly larvae tasting about crawfish. I LOVE CRAWFISH, but I would never ever eat dragonfly larvae without some serious peer pressure or unless I was starving. Even though we eat a lot of bugs unknowingly each year, I think it’s the fact that we don’t have to see the actual insect in whole form that makes people okay with this. If I poured a bowl of cereal and found a dead roach just chilling in the bowl, I would freak out and throw the whole box away as would most people. If a roach fell into the cereal at the factory and got mushed up into a million different pieces, I’d probably still eat the cereal. I’d take a roach leg over a whole roach any day. If I had to eat a bug I would either want them fried, covered in chocolate, or both. I couldn’t handle anything worm like. The insect would have to be crunchy like a grasshopper or an ant or something of that nature.

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I might eat these. They look like little pastries from Starbucks or something.