/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14801508]

Is there actually anything wrong with eating insects, provided they're prepared safely, other than "eww that's yucky"?

[Anonymous No.14801514]

>>14801508
nope, it's literally fine and just memes saying there's anything wrong with it

[Anonymous No.14801516]

>>14801508
no

[Anonymous No.14801531]

Not that I've seen so far. Bugs are okay to eat. It's usually just reflective of how fucked your society is if you have to eat bugs en masse. Rats are okay to eat but if you start seeing them being caught and cooked en masse, something's gone terribly wrong.

[Anonymous No.14801541]

Bible says you can only eat grasshoppers and locust. If they were good enough for John the Baptist than they’re good enough for you.

[Anonymous No.14801547]

>>14801541
do i go to hell if i eat a cockroach?

[Anonymous No.14801562]

>>14801508
it's a right of passage and a sign that you have progressed as a culture and society when you graduate to NOT eating bugs.

[Anonymous No.14801573]

>>14801547
Yes, especially if the cockroach has eggs in it. That's simulating semen consumption and that's gay.

[Anonymous No.14801579]

>>14801508
not really, zoomies just think "EWWW GROSS" so they express themselves the only way they know how, with wojack and anti-left memes

[Anonymous No.14801580]

>>14801573
>eggs
>semen
>gay

Do you eat chicken eggs anon? Ever? You know where that gets you right?

[Anonymous No.14801582]

>>14801508
Of course not, but I'm not going to do it.

[Anonymous No.14801594]

>>14801508
Eating insects is not part of my culture. I might try them, but because I was brought up to see them as plant pollinators at best and vermin at worst, I would have to focus on the benefit and flavour, try to rid myself of preconceptions and culturally inculcated disgust of them while eating.

I think this would be pretty tough to do, unless they were somehow disguised in a dish. I'd have a doubly hard time, since I don't care for crustaceans either.

[Anonymous No.14801600]

>>14801508

No other reason is necessary.

[Anonymous No.14801617]

>>14801600
literal child

[Anonymous No.14801621]

>>14801508
It's viscerally disgusting, which is good enough for me to avoid them.

[Anonymous No.14801623]

>>14801514
>>14801516
>>14801531
>>14801579
>>14801617
i hope cockroaches eat your eyes out in your sleep tonight

[Anonymous No.14801625]

>>14801617
Why should we eat things we consider yucky?

I can't eat lobster unless the meat is already taken out for me. Bugs are gross dude.

[Anonymous No.14801636]

>>14801623
seething zoomie
>>14801625
>Why should we eat things we consider yucky?
why do we make children eat their "yucky" vegetables?

[Anonymous No.14801646]

>>14801625
fuckin yikes, you gotta be 18+ to post here faggot. take a hike

[Anonymous No.14801649]

>>14801625
>I can't eat lobster unless the meat is already taken out for me.
Soy hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.14801657]

>>14801625
>>14801623
>>14801621
>>14801600
Only femoids think bugs are disgusting in year 2020. Post tiddies.

[Anonymous No.14801672]

>>14801617
>>14801657

Alright, explain to me why fucking an animal is wrong then, and without using the word 'consent'. You don't get to use this word because you don't ask for 'consent' before eating a cow or neutering your dog.

We refrain from things because they're gross. It is the very basis of culture. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.14801680]

>>14801672
Post mommy milkers you fucking whore

[Anonymous No.14801682]

>>14801636
>>14801646
>>14801649
>>14801657
ironic bug shilling is still bug shilling you stupid niggers

[Anonymous No.14801684]

>>14801672
>Alright, explain to me why fucking an animal is wrong then, and without using the word 'consent'.
sex is only for the purpose of procreation and you can't procreate with an animal
fuck off fornicator

[Anonymous No.14801688]

>>14801682
zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.14801692]

>>14801657
here we see a very lame attempt at try to equate people who do not eat bugs as being female. this indicates a misogynist attitude.

It also does not work. only a moron would go "ohnoes he called me girl so I must change my ways".

no sorry it does not work that way.

[Anonymous No.14801698]

>>14801682
Post your tits already roastie

[Anonymous No.14801699]

>>14801508
Not really but "eww that's yucky" is a pretty decent reason.

[Anonymous No.14801703]

>>14801692
Post khazar breasticles shekike

[Anonymous No.14801707]

>>14801508
I eat bugs all the time. Sea Bugs. In Garlic Butter sauce.

[Anonymous No.14801715]

>>14801508
I’ll leave all the bugs for you, and I’ll keep the steak

[Anonymous No.14801717]

>>14801682
>trying to justify gargling so much semen enriched soy milk you can't handle eating into crab legs because EEEWWWWW A BUG

[Anonymous No.14801729]

>>14801657
Insects are disgusting to eat, dumbass, there's a difference.

>>14801692
There is literally nothing wrong with being misogynist

[Anonymous No.14801755]

>>14801508
If someone wants to eat insects, I don't really care, my personal reason for not doing it is eww that's yucky. The issue is they want is to force everyone to eat insects and phase out meat.

[Anonymous No.14801761]

>>14801729
>EEWWEWW BUGS ARE GROSS
Post your rack already you stupid vapid whore

[Anonymous No.14801769]

>>14801755
>noooooo if I eat a single bug drumpf will make meat eating illegal!
Femoid logic at its finest. Post tits.

[Anonymous No.14801774]

>>14801508
Nothing. I'm just not gonna eat it. The market has spoken.

[Anonymous No.14801784]

What's with the bug shilling lately? Is it just bored niggers or actual, paid shills to try and normalize eating bugs in western countries?

[Anonymous No.14801790]

>>14801769
Do you have brain damage?

[Anonymous No.14801791]

>>14801508
Morally/ethically/nutrion wise/taste wise/money wise/convinient wise???
Naahh

[Anonymous No.14801796]

>>14801790
>>14801784
Post milkers.

[Anonymous No.14801804]

How about snails? Are they on the same level as roaches?

[Anonymous No.14801813]

>>14801508
No. Bugs are at the point now that fake, vegan meat was 10 years ago. Expect to start seeing them in supermarkets in the next few years, but competing with $1.89 frozen turkey chubs and sausage meat won't be easy for them.

>>14801623
>t. turk that's afraid of being eaten

[Anonymous No.14801824]

>>14801769
There are people that want to either ban meat or tax it to death, but it's not Drumpf and the Republicans. They don't have any real traction in the States, I'm not sure about Europe and Anza though.

[Anonymous No.14801837]

>>14801508
I dunno. It kinda seems like a jew scam for first worlders to sell less for more and also is kinda funny americans are having an outrage over this.

[Anonymous No.14801908]

>>14801508
at some cricket thing in Bangkok, tasted like a fucking Lays chip.

[Anonymous No.14802010]

/v/-tier thread

[Anonymous No.14802199]

>>14801684
This is lack of pussy cope

[Anonymous No.14802219]

ITT: Unironic Kenyans and Malaysians trying to pretend their disgusting bug food is normal

Never gonna happen fellas you can keep your locust burgers

[Anonymous No.14802275]

>>14801672
Beatiality being bad is a social construct

[Anonymous No.14802281]

>>14801791
>It's morally and ethically wrong to eat an insect
What

[Anonymous No.14802331]

>>14801508
Its poor people food, but there's nothing wrong with it.

[Anonymous No.14803069]

>>14801562
This but only if you then ascend further and stop eating living creatures all together.

[Anonymous No.14804059]

>>14801682
Long way to write " it's yucky and I'm a child"

[Anonymous No.14804382]

>>14803069
But that would be regressing to before we figured out we could kill things and gain their powers by eating them

[Anonymous No.14804422]

I tried baked mealworms at the Philadelphia insectarium on a field trip. One out of three kids to do it. It was actually pretty good. I chose the cheddar flavor. They told me it was like a potato chip and they did not lie.

[Anonymous No.14804550]

>>14801508
You already are.
Mostly anythign coloured red in food is Carmine or E120 which is Conchineal

[Anonymous No.14804558]

I will not eat bugs. i dont care if they taste amazing and will make me like to 150. i will not eat bugs, i will not live in a cube. fuck you

[Anonymous No.14804574]

>>14804558
Don't worry kiddo, they are making burgers and similar meat lookalikes for you.
They aren't expecting you to just eat straight up locusts out of a bag.

[Anonymous No.14804576]

>>14801625
>I can't eat lobster unless the meat is already taken out for me.
are you a babby?

[Anonymous No.14804656]

I'm kinda late to this thread but insects as a source of protein is quite the fascinating topic. When you just look at it objectively, it's a fantastic solution - insects grow and multiply at ridiculous rates compared to mammals or fish and require very little care. There's also no ethical issues since their nervous system is probably not complex enough to translate nociception to pain. Yet, clearly most people in the western world consider it to be disgusting. Clearly there's a cultural aspect to this considering how it is relatively normal in some regions but the feeling of disgust is much deeper than cultural influences. It's a natural instinctive reaction with reasonable origins with insects being vermin and thus connected to carrion (death) and a danger to food supplies (famine). I would suspect that even people from cultures in which insect consumption is normal would probably prefer a piece of beef over an insect patty. I wonder if there's a reason for the development of preference of proper meat in the western culture or if it's a complete accident. Is beef, pork and poultry of higher nutritional quality? Maybe it's easier to identify disease in more complex animals than in a grasshopper that looks to us the same wether it's healthy or infected with parasites. What do you guys think? Is the preference natural or is that just a view I hold because I grew up in western culture?

[Anonymous No.14804660]

>>14801508
Fuck you up your retarded ass greta, die in a fucking fire.

[Anonymous No.14804691]

>>14804558
If they really offered those benefits I’d do it in a heartbeat. Why does everybody treat eating bugs as the end of the world?

[Anonymous No.14804696]

>>14804656
Tbh it is western views.
Like I said earlier I tried mealworms and they were damn good.

I’m far from being a Greta söy boy cuck, but, it objectively is reasonable to eat insects. Good protein. I started eating things made from chickpeas and beans so I might as well try some worms. I like sea bugs, anyway I just looked up if I could get some cheddar worms. I might buy them and make a thread about it some time. I’ll have to wear my stahlhelm and Nintendo 64 shirt while doing it

[Anonymous No.14804771]

>>14804656
>>14804696
Is it possible to process it and incorporate it into other foods? Like a powder or something?

[Anonymous No.14804775]

>>14802331
so is chicken

[Anonymous No.14804776]

>>14804771
Yes

[Anonymous No.14804782]

>>14804771
yes, pasta and bread for example can be made with varying amounts of insect flour instead of grains
the taste was okay

>>14804656
it's simpler and more effective to hunt and kill a pig than to spend entire day scavenging for a handful of bugs
it needs industrial level, then it gets more effective in every way

[Anonymous No.14804803]

>>14801508
You mean other than the fact that we're not insectivores, and that it's pretty much nothing but population control for the poor while the rich will keep eating actual meat?

[Anonymous No.14804810]

>>14804776
>>14804782
That's great news then.

[Anonymous No.14804857]

>>14801508
Not really. Back in some scout camps we'd by limited to 1500 calories or so a day, and a lot of us would catch grasshoppers to eat because all of us were always hungry.

[Anonymous No.14804862]

>>14801508
Fokken gross, m8

[Anonymous No.14804874]

They don't taste that great so why bother eating them when there's plenty of better tasting meat available? I'd only eat bugs if I was starving or everything else skyrocketed in price overnight.

[Anonymous No.14804896]

>lobster
>shrimp
>crab
>crawfish
i like bugs
>escargots

[Anonymous No.14804900]

>>14801508
If you'll eat an insect you'll suck a dick. People who lose their sense of disgust have no moral boundaries. That's why I think if someone eats insects, they should be shot dead.

[Anonymous No.14804906]

>>14804900
what if i suck dick but dont eat insects?

[Anonymous No.14804912]

>>14804900
Hunger is the best spice

[Anonymous No.14804916]

>>14804906
Will you come suck mine?

[Anonymous No.14804925]

>>14804906

Thrown off a 4 story building onto concrete.

[Anonymous No.14804932]

>>14804925

[Anonymous No.14804934]

>>14804916
i only fuck people that like shrimp or lobster. sorry.

[Anonymous No.14804938]

>>14804934
But I do like shrimp and lobster

[Anonymous No.14805115]

>>14804900
But disgust can be just as retarded as fear. Some people have irrational fears and are disgusted by stupid shit like tomatoes or mushrooms. That's generally considered to be childish. Now with eating insects it seems to be the same thing but on a cultural level. We do eat other arthropods.

[Anonymous No.14805131]

>>14801508
they don't seem as nutritious unless the only thing you care about is protein content, but you need more than that for optimal health. there's also the issue of chitin basically being like fiber and we can't really digest it.

it seems more like it's done out of necessity for the most part, but if people can choose between insects and meat they seem to want meat instead and there's probably more than just a "eww that's yucky" factor. i'd rather eat lab-grown meat.

[Anonymous No.14805173]

I just had a dream in which I was in some sci-fi future, where genetically engineered bugs were used for constructing buildings (like upgraded termites)
I was at some cafeteria, trying to eat lunch, but the place was undergoing construction / renovation, and the bugs working on the ceiling kept dropping onto my plate, which was fucking disgusting
I tried to complain, but unfortunately bugs dropping on your plate was considered normal and commonplace, so I just had to throw it out...

weird dream, would not recommend

[Anonymous No.14805203]

>>14805131
I think insects in a more processed form could be more interesting to many people.

[Anonymous No.14805228]

>>14805203
like mechanically separated insects? that might be more tolerable but it's basically insect sludge and i don't think we should be holding up more processed food as an ideal thing to work toward.

i read that some insect producers wanted them to be added to animal feed which might actually make for better meat quality though. like how you can see packages of chicken saying "vegetarian-fed!" like that's a good thing. but chickens are natural omnivores.

[Anonymous No.14805232]

>>14805131
>they don't seem as nutritious unless the only thing you care about is protein content
I mean, that is what most people care about in their food nowadays

[Anonymous No.14805237]

>>14805131
arent grubs high in fat too?

[Anonymous No.14805238]

I had silkworm pupae once and they genuinely tasted like shit. It was possibly the most repulsive thing I've ever placed in my mouth. Maybe they were cooked badly, I dunno.

[Anonymous No.14805251]

>>14805232
yeah but that's usually due to a lack of proper knowledge about food. you have some people trying to say broccoli is just as good of a protein source as beef. most people don't have a great grasp on nutrition so we shouldn't use that as the standard on what to do.

[Anonymous No.14805339]

>>14805251
gymbros really do need a lot of protein though

[Anonymous No.14805508]

>>14801684
give me a chimpanzee and some time.

[Anonymous No.14805542]

>>14803069
nah the next step is genetically engineering meat animals with large amounts of muscle and fat, that can be butchered without killing, and can regenerate muscle tissue rapidly.

[Anonymous No.14805562]

>>14805542
If we can do all that then we can probably produce meat in a way that doesn't involve a living animal at all.

[Anonymous No.14805615]

>>14805228
I think that would miss the point. You want to get away from relatively costly, inefficient and cruel meat production. Processed foods aren't a problem just because there processed. It depends on what's done to them. Most manufacturers just add tons of shit to clean, flavour and conserve the food they produce. "Insect sludge" would be more akin to minced meet

[Anonymous No.14805631]

>>14805542
>Regeneration is introduced.
>Focus is on meat production, not medicine.
Gtfo. Genetic engineering won't be the future for meat production. We'll probably go further and further from industrial meat production

[Anonymous No.14805634]

>>14805615
>cruel
bugs dont feel pain.

[Anonymous No.14805655]

>>14805634
I replied to someone who suggested using insects to animal feed to increase meat quality. My point is, that we should aim to get away from traditional farm animals.

[Anonymous No.14805669]

>>14802219
tits or gtfo bitch

[Anonymous No.14806153]

>>14801508
no
if you don't like it, don't eat it. if you do like it, sure go ahead. it's pretty nutritious but not the best food around, especially if fried.

[Anonymous No.14806222]

When you're eating insects you're also eating their innards that are still full of literal shit

[Anonymous No.14806458]

>>14804660
Definitely. Dry them or fry them, then vaporize the shit out of them.
But people won't take too kindly to "contains 25% bugs" minced meat.

[Anonymous No.14806465]

>>14801508
this thread is a jewish psyop. you cant convince me otherwise

[Anonymous No.14806500]

>>14806465
>cope and seethe

[Anonymous No.14806523]

>>14801508

even in the third world countries where they eat bugs they're a meme food, woke soyboys just pretend its normal to eat bugs

[Anonymous No.14807026]

>>14801562
The last star fighter... Terrible movie, but I guess it might be better with a theatre sized tub of crickets.

[Anonymous No.14807043]

Only the lowest of the low have consumed and subsisted on insects throughout history. More civilized Native Americans hated the tribes that were too stupid to for agriculture and hunting and lived off bugs.

[Anonymous No.14807417]

>>14807043
cool, but why though? there seems to be no real reason

[Anonymous No.14807427]

aren't bugs and lobsters, crabs shrimps as closely related to one another as pigs, cows and sheeps are to each other?

[Anonymous No.14807433]

>>14801508
Look it's fine if you want to eat them, just don't expect me to kiss you on the mouth, or offer you a job, or slow down my car when you are walking across the street.

[Anonymous No.14807445]

>>14807417

It’s just psychological and evolutionary. Stigma. Same reason people don’t eat dogs. Or rats. Or hell other people. Bugs are “icky” or at the very least off putting. They certainly aren’t appetizing.

[Anonymous No.14807778]

>>14801508
Because it's paraded around by vegan soy boys because bugs aren't animals

[Anonymous No.14807792]

>>14807433
Absolutely based take

[Anonymous No.14807869]

>>14807427
When you eat lobster, crabs and shrimp you can remove the exoskeleton and eat the softy fleshy bits. Bugs are for the most part too small for this to be possible so you have to eat it, exoskeleton and all. You get the unpleasant crunchy bits as well as the organs you'd rather avoid.

[Anonymous No.14807889]

>>14801508
They eat shit and taste like shit as a result anon.

[Anonymous No.14808017]

>>14804900
shooting someone dead is disgusting, and you've lost your sense of disgust, which i suppose illuminates your lack of moral boundaries.

[Anonymous No.14808021]

>>14808017

Bugs are gross and you’re a faggot.

[Anonymous No.14808032]

>>14808021
I accept your concession of defeat

[Anonymous No.14808048]

>>14801508
jewish overlords designating insects as appropriate goyim food

[Anonymous No.14808063]

>>14801508
at least it doesn't taste like pinsol the way beyond meat does

[Anonymous No.14808065]

I hear ant sauce is really good and interesting. I used to eat ants as a kid, they’re intense

[Anonymous No.14808070]

>>14808032

Defeat? You’re the mother fucker eating bugs. You are what you eat. You’re a bug homie. Now buzz off.

[Anonymous No.14808083]

>>14805631
They are entirely different fields of study, there are scientists a plenty in both to make use of the technology.

[Anonymous No.14808089]

>>14805655
eat shit, you fungus brained mong.

[Anonymous No.14809652]

>>14808089
You sound mad, did someone hurt you recently?

[Anonymous No.14809655]

>>14801508
No.

[Anonymous No.14809715]

I'm fine with it. In fact, I like it. I only wish that there were huge bugs out there with actual, real meat to them that you could go out and kill. Just rip a gigantic bug in half with your bare hands and cook it over a fire. Big fucking roasted scorpion claw.

[Anonymous No.14809729]

>>14807427
>aren't bugs and lobsters, crabs shrimps as closely related to one another
Yes, crustaceans and insects belong to the family of animals known as anthropods. Characteristics of which include a segmented outer exoskeleton or shell.
As to whether they taste similar or not I cannot answer as I have not, either deliberately or to my knowledge, eating any insects.

[Anonymous No.14809734]

>>14809729
>anthropods
Arthropods.

[Anonymous No.14809768]

There's also nothing wrong with eating a bullet so you should start right now you kike fuck

[Anonymous No.14809772]

>>14801508
Nope. I won't touch them though. Well willingly that is. I've eaten enough bugs on my runs and cycle rides. But if people want to eat them, more power to them I'd say.

[Anonymous No.14809847]

the evil people of the world want us locked in cages eating maggot paste fuck that shit

[Anonymous No.14809871]

>>14807427
Yes. That's why I don't get people who eat lobster and crab being revolted by insects. To me, it's all disgusting.

[Anonymous No.14809884]

>>14801508
They don't taste good, like pineapple on pizza

[Anonymous No.14809889]

>>14809729
>>14807427
Arthropods split up 500 million years ago.
They are as related to each other as a pig is to a lamprey.

[Anonymous No.14810116]

Bugs are neither kosher or halal, so it’s food for white christians only.

[Anonymous No.14810127]

>>14804558
>i will not live in a cube.
>posted from his own cube
bro

[Anonymous No.14810130]

>>14801508
>soft shell crab
>shell, guts and all
>just caught from the ocean eating all kinds of shit
HMM YUM YUM IN MY TUMMY

>insects
>born and bred on a specialized farm eating fresh foods
OMG THATS GROSS, YUCK, IM NOT FALLING FOR YOUR (((TRICKS)))
*hyperventilates and downs another bottle of Alex Jones's BrainForce™*

[Anonymous No.14810136]

Nothing wrong, there's just no way to make it appetizing unless you reduce it to a powdered form and then you're getting into processed food to make use of it.

If there were big bugs the size of lobsters with a lot of meat you could get separate from the offal/exoskeleton you'd be good to go. Grubs come close but I've yet to see them look decent outside of deep fried and you can make anything look good deep fried

>>14805131
>Given a choice between insects and meat people will choose meat
Yeah that pretty much says it all, doesn't it. Anyone who isn't shilling for it already knows bug eating is the poor and middle class (What exists at this point) eat bugs, the rich eat meat.

>>14805655
That's been the best solution I've heard. Nobody will mind animals being fed bugs so long as it doesn't result in some mad cow situation, and it would reduce the agricultural footprint on animal feed.

[Anonymous No.14810139]

>>14801508
No, theyre fine and tasty when you get used to them and prepare them well.
They have a lot of benefits in production and nutritional health as well but im a lazy motherfucker so im not going to find the sources again. Theyre out there.

[Anonymous No.14810149]

Take your meds.

[Anonymous No.14810249]

>>14801580
The chicken eggs we eat aren’t fertilized. It only makes women gay.

[Anonymous No.14810264]

>>14801508
I'm sure our ancestors would be overjoyed that their descendants would have to resort to eating bugs.

[Anonymous No.14810269]

>>14801508
texture and flavor

[Anonymous No.14810275]

>>14805631
kill all false dichotomyfags