[GohanDuo]

I like to watch to National Geographic Channel, and about an hour ago there was a documentary about bugs and howmany bugs we eat. I don't eat them but I don't know why. Bugs contain lots of nutrients and are very healthy. Why do we eat meat, what looks tastiest a cow or a bug? We eat lobster and crab, but we don't eat scorpions? Who of you knows that we eat about 500 gramme bugs and that honey is made from bee puke? And that in 100 gram of chocolate there are 60 bugs in it? What do you think about eating bugs? Discuss it here :lol:

http://www.travelsinparadise.com/thailand/chiang_mai/pb120023-market-bugs-cm.jpg
a fried scorpion anyone?

[Ravenblade]

I think the concept is looked down upon in the western world due to the fact they are "ground creatures" and dont look very pleasant. I think maybe because the negative connotations associated with them when they're alive, people avoid eating them here. But then if they provide nutrients i guess it wouldnt hurt...I'll stick to proper meat though^^;;

[Echo_djinn]

*agrees with RB*
I doubt anyone here would find a ant or beetle appetizing. Though I wouldn't mind eating one if it had chocolate all over it. A matter of fact I saw a show where they would cover bugs with chocolate candy and other such things and people would pay to eat it.

[Neo]

I only have to say one thing: they taste delicious!
I was in thailand last summer, and I ate most of them; grasshoppers, worms etc. they really taste good, you should try it too.

[Ravenblade]

What do they taste like? (do NOT say like chicken XD) Is it sweet/sour/a lot like normal meat...?

[l3lueMage]

*twitches, squinches, EWWW*

This is off topic BM - please be a little more constructive :lol: - Raven

[golden_djiin]

bugs are crunchy and juicy,and they are healthy for you.specific ones can cure sickness! :)
and animals like to eat them...like my cat... :lol:

[Neo]

Neo_Genesis, on Mar 8 2005, 09:45 PM, said:

I only have to say one thing: they taste delicious!
I was in thailand last summer, and I ate most of them; grasshoppers, worms etc. they really taste good, you should try it too.

the taste is... something I cant describe. I think what golden djinn says comes most close. they don't really have a taste, you only have some sort of taste in your mouth about a few minutes after eating it.

[Manning sucks]

golden_djiin, on Mar 8 2005, 06:34 PM, said:

bugs are crunchy and juicy,and they are healthy for you.specific ones can cure sickness! :D
and animals like to eat them...like my cat... :angry:

Not ALL are crunchy. Your common earthworm is very chewy and slimy.
It tastes is not bitter,sweet,sour it average.

That is bascially all I can give.

[Neo]

But you must understand I did not ate them raw... worms, which are baked are chunchy... at least the ones I ate.

[Manning sucks]

Well, that makes a difference because I was refering to raw ones.

[Neo]

you ate raw worms? :angry:
*slowly backs up*
you really ate raw ones?

[Mars Djinni]

I'm not sure if I've actually ate anything like that, but when I was in the Philippines, I saw lots of merchants selling bugs, mainly locusts in the sandy beaches.

[TobiasMar]

Well, eating bugs doesn't exactly sound discusting, but...weird IMO. I do remember however in the movie Hidalgo when the cowboy was eating locusts. It wasn't gross, but it was...strange. And I didn't know that bee puke tastes so sweet....infact, I didn't even know Honey= bee puke. O_O

[Sea of Time]

Bugs are probably really crunchy and probably taste really good to some people. I doubt anyone will actually make fun of people who eat bugs, just because that would be racist.

[Manning sucks]

Neo_Genesis, on Mar 9 2005, 03:26 PM, said:

you ate raw worms?  :mellow:
*slowly backs up*
you really ate raw ones?

Si, Senor, I ate raw worm 2 years ago at my friend B-day party. i ogt money for doing it

[Nobody]

interesting... I never did think about this stuff that much. While eating bugs does sound disgusting to most (myself included), it is healthy...
wierd how we're supposed to "crave" healthy things and yet, the thought of eatung bugs makes many people "lose thier appetite".

[Rickeyjr]

I ate a ladybug once! it was actually pretty tasty....<.<

[Illidan]

O_o

Erm ok it's called real food, ever heard of it? >_>

[Rickeyjr]

Yeah, I eat pizza all the time...<.<;;; And Tales of Symphonia Rocks!

[Nobody]

This is wierd. Why do people make it sound like bugs are so "disgusting" if they're good for you?

[Kyogrefan2]

if u look back in history, england pple thought of stuff like rat and bugs as something to cringe on, so i suppose its passed on to america and other countries... asia is one of the countries who LIKES eating bugs(i think)

[TobiasMar]

Nobody, on Mar 12 2005, 01:28 AM, said:

This is wierd. Why do people make it sound like bugs are so "disgusting" if they're good for you?

I think its because people usually don't like bugs like ****roaches hanging around their house.

[Neo]

In the easter side of the world, eating bugs is a regular thing. it's like we eat meat here, and they eat bugs there.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Eating bugs? Well whats so weird about that? If people like to eat it just let them! By the way... When I was 7 years old I ate a worm. I know it's disgusting but still... I was 7 years old!

[Nobody]

coming to think of it, why are bugs "disgusting"? We all have different appetites, but for most of us, they don't involve bugs.

[Someone Else]

DiddyKong, on Mar 12 2005, 04:06 PM, said:

Eating bugs? Well whats so weird about that? If people like to eat it just let them!

No one is actually stopping anyone from eating bugs.

I can't remember ever eating a bug. ;) Besides eating ants anyway... but hey everyone does that at one point or another. XD

[Kikuichimonji]

I did that by accident when a cluster of ants decided to go inside my can of drink ¬¬

That was not nice ><

[l3lueMage]

my friend used to eat ants off the ground >>
but ya he was wierd, what am i saying/ he still is wierd.
I think eating bugs is disgusting, but i guess it depends on your customs and where u live

[Nobody]

l3lueMage, on Mar 14 2005, 12:36 PM, said:

I think eating bugs is disgusting, but i guess it depends on your customs and where u live

that's what I was trying to say in my last post ><. Sorry, I'm not very good at getting my thoughts out...

[Elliott]

That's gross, then again, people from that region do a lot of things I deem crazy.

[Black Mage]

Well, lots of people tend to associate bugs with dirt and filth. I've never actually eaten a bug but if its good for me i might try it

[Mathak Kraven]

Personnally You won't see me eating bugs due to western influences. But for nutrients I have heard alot that they are good for you.

[Izar]

Yeah. The only way I maight eat'em is if I am trapped in the middle of the desert with scorpians. Yum. Well, we eat Shrimp, and they are pretty close to the bug family.

[Tachyon360]

Rickeyjr, on Mar 12 2005, 12:09 AM, said:

I ate a ladybug once! it was actually pretty tasty....

Right. Ladybug blood is loaded with a number of bitter-tasting and foul-smelling chemicals as well as some mild toxins that can make you feel sick. Unless you were somehow completely unaffected by that arsenal, I find that hard to believe.

[Izar]

I didn't get sick when I ate one when I was a kid. I also ate an ant, and... that's it... As for being tastey... No way Jose.

Every one eats spiders when they sleep, I think it's 8 a year or 8 a lifetime for the average person.

[Mathak Kraven]

Eating an ant could be lethal I think I think it has a sour substance in it's body.

[Tachyon360]

Many ants secrete formic acid. It causes a burning sensation and inflammation when it's injected into the skin (like when an ant would bite you). In the stomach, it would do nearly nothing.

Some ants actually produce a honey-like substance in their abdomens, and can be ground up to supposedly make a tasty, sweet, protein rich ant paste. Not that I'd want to try it, since I've been taught to be disgusted by insects since I was old enough to understand words, as were most Westerners.

[Mathak Kraven]

With your stomach already haing a rate of 0.1% HCl (that's an acid if you'd like to know) I know you'll stomach will be able to resist it. It's supposed to do that. I'll search up the formula for ant acid (not against it) if you want it.

[Tachyon360]

Formic acid is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its condensed formula is HCOOH. A central carbon atom, double bonded to an oxygen atom and single bonded to a hydrogen atom and a hydroxyl group. It's a pretty weak organic acid.

Ants produce it in their saliva and stinging nettles produce it in fine, needle-like trichomes.

Who wouldn't know that?

[Mathak Kraven]

That was exactly the one I was looking for. So actually then it isn't an acid but a base substance.

[Tachyon360]

What makes you think that it's a base? (Unless the little "ant acid" blurb was really "antacid." It's kinda hard to tell what you meant. I'll go on assuming you were talking about formic acid.)

Don't let the hydroxyl group throw you off. When you have an aldehyde group and a hydroxyl group on a single carbon atom, it becomes a new functional group called a carboxyl group.

The double bond in a carboxyl group resonates between both oxygen atoms (since that state is more stable), making the hydrogen's attraction to either oxygen atom considerably weaker. Thus, when the carboxylic acid dissolved in water, it readily ionizes into a carboxyl anion and a hydronium cation.

In laymen's terms, it's an acid.