@@contohasmr5876 I eat bugs from time to time. If given the option, I'll usually choose the bugs over a steak or a burger. They just taste really nice.
Bugs will need to be more thoroughly processed before mainstream consumers will eat them as more than a novelty. I don't want my food to LOOK like bugs.
***** Seems like we could make some kind of industrial scale de-shelling machine for bugs. They do it for shrimp, right? In general people don't like their food to look like the animal it came from. We usually skin it, carve it, or grind it up. However, if it's candy, it's best to shape it like a worm.
***** A few years ago I had a "candy bar" that was made from crickets. They had ground them up into a flour like powder to use as one of the ingredients. There is stuff out there for the shelling and deveining of shrimp as well as other processes to process animals we already eat. It would be a fairly minimal issue to develop processes and machinery for various insects.
+Dan Brown if you've ever had protein powder you'd love ours. No one can tell the difference between it and any other mainstream protein powder out there.
Once when I was a little kid, I was sitting at a picnic table and I saw an ant crawling by me. So without even giving it much thought, I reached over and grabbed it and popped it in my mouth. The flavor was surprisingly sweet and a bit tangy. Years later I was snacking on Special K cereal with red berries, and I realized those dried strawberries (with no milk added) tasted exactly like that ant. Also one time I was in South Africa on a guided safari tour thing, and our guide pulled the vehicle over at a termite mound and started picking up a bunch of termites and placing them on his palm. He brought them over to us and told us each to eat one. It tasted like spearmint, of all things! And those are the only two times I've deliberately eaten bugs.
I did that to a carpenter ant when I was 4 or 5 saw it crawling decided I wanted to know what it tasted like and it was the nastiest I ever tasted and never tried it again but who knows perhaps it would of tasted better cooked
I haven't had any insects myself (consciously, anyway), but I don't particularly feel squeamish about it. I'd be very open to including them more in my diet.
I agree, I don't see why people are more inclined to eat genetically modified cows and chicken instead of bugs. If anything, the animals we do eat are much more intelligent and aware, so it's kind of messed up to raise them just to eat them.
Matthew Prorok If there would just be something like bug fries or something, where they're squashed and then shaped, so it doesn't look like a bug, I would totally love it.
Eating bugs instead of meat and dairy would help the environment. If you eat the same amount of meat and dairy, but also eat bugs, there is no benefit. What would be the point?
lohphat Most bugs live in extremely dirty places, that's why most people don't want to eat it. While crabs, lobsters and shrimp don't live in extremely dirty places.
Well, crabs are much larger then insects. However, unlike bugs, large amounts of crab can be easily caught with a crab net. Along with the already large amount of near in crabs and the fact that they are quite different then terrestrial invertebrates makes people much more willing to eat them.
During the convict transportation period of early Australian history, lobsters were considered “the cockroaches of the sea” and were fed to the convicts. There was even a massive protest at one point which led the authorities of the day to abandon the process. Now they are considered a very expensive delicacy. So shifts in perception nearly always translate into shifts in practice.
Do you think we'll need bug restaurants to become a widely accepted thing first, or more individuals making choices to seek out bugs for their own home cooking first for widespread insect consumption to become a thing and have a significant impact?
Alicia Bradley Looks to us like there are several companies trying to incorporate bugs into various different foods (see exo foods cricket protein bar www.exoprotein.com/). We imagine this is the start of eating actual bugs becoming more of a thing in homes and restaurants as it becomes more acceptable and appealing bit by bit!
Haven't had any bugs, but I hope some companies try to include it as a protein additive to other things. Processed bugs that simply add protein to otherwise normal food would be much easier to "swallow" than eating bug carcasses.
Yeah, because if you can see it your natural disgust response would kick in, but if the companies lie to you and if you lie to yourself it's a much easier pill to swallow so to speak.
@@lordofthered1257 there are bugs in flour and other grain processing that we already don't see, but they're at a rather low quantity. I'd say there are more preferable sources of protein at this point. Would rather have some beans in my flour.
The first time I ate a bug pretty much went like this: Before: Eww, it still has the shell on it? After: *(crunchcrunchcrunchcrunch)* What do you mean “yOu OnLy HaVe OnE”?
I love the idea. I actually think the cultural stigma is something that could be easily corrected within a decade or two, but I worry about acceptance of our country's food culture, in general. We have things like hamburgers for a cookout, hotdogs for a campfire, sandwiches for a picnic. etc. Is there room for insects to not only move in, but end up a significant source of protein in our culture? I like the idea of the insect tacos that were eaten, but I fear that just a pile of prepared bugs wouldn't be as flashy as the big, multi-faceted meals that our society has come to love. I would like to see some interesting dishes made of bugs as an ingredient, and I think that could really help push cultural change towards bug eating. -Nathan
BUGAPALOOZA 2015 IS SUNDAY AUG, 21 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum We will be cooking bugs for everyone to try. Plus arts and crafts and all kinds of bug business. Great for families!
I've eaten flies before but that is just a common thing for any Australian when they goes outside in summer. The worst bit is when they get stuck and you can still feel them moving.
Hey Matt and Craig, do you think through the Good Stuff you have been living more in a way? It seems like you have so many opportunities to talk to a lot of different people and have new experiences in every video.
Kristin Robinson Yeah! This show has been an excellent excuse to meet new and interesting people and check out exotic locations as well as learn a thing or two.
As someone with a (who had a?) pretty irrational fear of bugs, this helped me out a lot. At 8:00, for example, when the guy said "Some people might be watching me like 'ew, onion! They're gonna eat onion? They're gross'", that stood out to me. I absolutely love eating onions, the same way that many people love eating insects. I know that there's nothing wrong with eating an onion, and they made it clear in the video that there's nothing wrong with eating a bug, and there's actually more reasons why you should eat them than why you shouldn't! This was a great video.
Late to this video, but still like to say you've presented some convincing arguments and probably moved me a few steps closer to being receptive to the idea. I'm with those who'd probably prefer something that's been processed enough to look less like the whole bug, but then, I'm the same way with something like cow tongue, too. Good show, Good Stuff!
"Good stuff", this is a great playlist. I don't know how it will end, but I want to mention something: Of course we should research new food sources, but.... is it really needed to go so far? Mediterranean cuisine, includes red meat 2 to 4 times per month (depending the country), 4 times per month chicken and fish and then everything else. And it will be good for your health, it is tasteful, cheaper (the main idea was that people couldn't afford to eat more meat) and believe me... you wont get hungry! Of course I understand that it is not the solution for everything, but I believe it is easier for many people to make the change to mediterranean (or you could say "part vegetarian") cuisine than to "bug cuisine", and it requires less (none) research compared to "plant meat".
I started to raise meal worms to feed my local birds but after reading more into my hobby i have discovered unforeseen benefits than I originally intended. The Bugs make fertilizer for my garden and they can also sustain me if I need protein. I usually buy 50 lbs bags of wheat bran from my local pet supplier for about 10 dollars and with that I gain most of that in plant fertilizer(Frass) and a possible food source if need be. It's kind of a no brainer that we can supplement our animal meats with insects and I think we would be helping our Eco-system tremendously. I'm all for this.
@@AdvocateforTruth Ummm...mate....faeces is a substance...I don't know how to break it to you...IS NOT SAFE TO EAT! Like, it is literally waste produced by our body. You can't make it look good, because, you simply can't. EVERY culture will tell you, faeces ewwwwww. Many cultures however, bugs yummmmm! Western society just needs to change its old habits, I mean. As he said in the video, people wouldn't eat crabs or lobsters when they first arrived in North America. Sushi was the same way, and still is in some ways.
@@camthepariah7866 Yeah how about we stick with progress and not eat bugs instead of regressing backwards. Any society that eats bugs is a backwards and primitive society. I'm not sorry.
Spring is coming up, any resources for making a bunch of edible bugs for us Americans? I really want to experiment with the idea when the snow thaws. It seems like I could have made a ton of protein in my old apartment patio even.
I just purchased 1kg of mealworms. Fed them with pepper and garlic. Fried them on the pan with garlic and onion. Beautiful. I'm looking into getting my own farming options.
Yeah, I'd get on the bugwagon but its mainly convenience. I don't think my local shop is gonna stock crickets anytime soon, and I don't know where else to buy them.
i would eat bugs for sure, problem is you cant get them in the supermarket here in germany, and when i googled some "special" stores for bugs, they cost a fortune, for example: 100gr which is like 1/2 cup, cost 20€ or about 30 $ and thats the really cheap bugs, there are some that cost for 100gr up to 100 dollars, and that is way to much if you on the other hand pay for 500gr beef about 9 dollars.
That is because the western world is not used to eating bugs so they usually don't farm them where you are. That means that they are imported from other parts of the world. That is perhaps why they are so expensive. Greetings from Mexico!
I had a scorpion at a bar recently as a part of a shot. very small scorpion, no longer than my pinkie finger. You pop the scorpion in your mouth, and wash it down with the shot. I can honestly say it's all about psyching yourself out. It was slightly bitter, and very crunchy, but not unpleasant. I'm sure seasoned properly it would be delicious. It was that experience that made me seriously start thinking about bugs as a source of protein in my life.
Another question for you! Did the question of whether having a vegetarian/vegan diet would affect or be affected by incorporating insects into the "mainstream" food industry enter into your conversation at all? I just wonder whether they had researched whether would be considered acceptable by people who choose vegetarian or vegan lifestyles due to ethical or environmental reasons to eat insects as a protein alternative, and if not, why?
I would and I believe that it's really good but it's going to take a long time for me to get over the disgust for them. I could probably eat ants or termites but anything much larger would really bother me.
Nope. I'll just stick to eating my beans and veggies for protein and other nutrients not found in bugs. It's interesting that when they cooked the bugs, they also sauteed veggies to make the bugs palatable.
We add flavoring to most foods to make it palatable. Ever eat a plain steak with absolutely no other outside ingredients added? I bet you haven't, because it'd be too tough and taste like garbage.
Eric Sanchez Yeah, I know meat is cooked with other ingredients to make it palatable. I used to eat meat. My point is, why not just eat the sauteed veggies with whole grains and refried beans? At least we can easily find a lot more information on the nutritional value of plants. Plus, there's a variety of plants with protein if protein intake alone is a concern.
***** Vegan diets do not kill animals at the exponential scale that eating meat does. What uses more resources and contributes to climate change? Animal agriculture does. (Source: www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm)
The dried cricket for example, do they die immediately or do any bugs suffer in the process? When you poor it down in boiling water I suppose they die right away but if you fry it, shouldn't they crawl in pain?
Termites are actually pretty significant releasers methane, at least by natural standards. I wonder what effect they'd have on methane emission levels if they were farmed/produced on an agricultural level. Bugs are the way forward for ethical and economical farming protein. I've tried deep fried scorpions already. The texture was a little "sandy" but it tasted otherwise very good. I'm not sure how I'd feel about eating grubs and more "bulbous" looking insects though.
Even if they are quite large producers of methane I'd imagine that it's still much mess as a whole than something like beef. But a very good point and I'd like to see the actual data cause there's no point in switching to bug protein of they have the same negative effect on the environment.
+cyanidejunkie117 We have millions of gallons of methane for fuel, we aren't running out of it and doing this would be very expensive and not even close to profitable.
I don't know if I'd start eating a lot of bugs just as bugs, but I'd certainly be open to different flours, meals, and processed products using them. I feel like you could create a good meat substitute, sort of like beyond meat, using bugs as the protein source...
What I'm curious is, where does one acquire bugs for human consumption? Not that many places I know of serve insects in the states nor am I aware of too many grocery stores that carry them.
I think part of the problem stems back from what Steve was saying about feeling like you're eating the whole thing. With a lobster, you're still only seeing the inside when you eat it. With a bug you see the head...the tail...everything. It would be a bit wasteful, but perhaps cutting off those bits would make them more palatable? Anyway, I hope this continues to happen. I'm not going out of my way to track down bug meals or anything but if confronted with the situation, I think I'll give it a go. :)
I had some grasshopper and cockroach when I was in vietnam and cambodia. I was hesitant at first but did it for the novely. And I honestly really enjoyed them, they tasted like BBQ chips. I was eating the whole grasshopper, head and all, and i honestly loved every bit of it.
While I totally get the pros to eating bugs and adventure involve in acquiring a new taste and changing your mindset, I don't know if I could mentally get over that hurdle! If I have kids, I will teach them to not be afraid of eating bugs! More protein for them. That being said, I did try eating tiny flavored crickets and that was a creepy experience. Kudos to Craig for jumping head first and tasting these dishes.... do you think you would bring this into your daily life and how would you convince your fiancée to try it?
I live in Taiwan, and bees fried in vegetable oil with onions and chilis is a common snack in aboriginal cuisine. The mouth feel is kind of... between potatoes and whitefish. I was hesitant at first to try them, but they're really good! Bees, whodathunkit.
If we are serious about heading off-planet for any truly extended period of time (e.g. colonising Mars) I”m absolutely convinced that cultivating, maintaining and consuming bugs is not only practical, but probably essential considering weight, space and resource costs. At least in the early stages.
You know what else is a great source of protein? Eggs. And they're not as bad for you as you've been brought on to believe. Yes, they do raise cholesterol. But those are healthy natural cholesterol, which increases testosterone. Eggs also contains all vitamins, except vitamin-c. They're also rich on iron, zinc and calcium. Is it any wonder why they're a favorite among athletes?
I'd love to incorporate more of this into my own diet, but it doesn't seem super accessible yet. Even in Phoenix, there's only one restaurant (being advertised) that serves chapulines, and our Mexican food scene is (obviously) extremely robust. Is this something I'll need to just ease into through Amazon purchases?
I've tried bugs a year ago, and since then I've been interested in cooking regularly with bugs. However, I don't even know where to buy some in my country. It's been a while since I haven't checked, so I will.
I don't know how you've managed it, but every topic you've come up with have been about things I'm incredibly interested in! Thank you so so dang much for doing this! This is awesome.
2 questions: Did you gents receive any recommendations on bug cookbooks or websites to find recipes? Also, the fare in this video is so exotic, any thoughts on eating local bugs? Trying to think where I'd go to get these in SE Pennsylvania. It's like a sweet new brand of hunting and gathering! Awesome, challenging video you guys. Love it
i ate grasshoppers from time to time, when my friend brings them to school as snacks. It's pretty common to snack on grasshopper here (i live in southeast asia). But my mom never made insect-based meals, though. She's a bit squeamish when it comes to bugs.
I would eat bugs the way you guys did there, but the problem is, there's no way to get them in regular supermarkets, at least where I live (the Netherlands).
A good analogy for this is Fish bone vs Bug leg stuck on your teeth. Given that both have been cooked well, there should be no difference. But do try to make plants your main source of food. It has been said over and over again, eat your vegetables.
As a South African I feel the need to correct this guy, yes we do eat the Mopani worm, dead and dried. But it does NOT form part of our protein diet. It's a delicacy only, no one here "live off it". We eat, fish, meat, poultry. Dude, we have a Macdonald and a KFC in nearly every town. Stop it
Have you guys ever thought about airing The Good Stuff on TV somewhere? I'm sure a more educational, sciency channel might really enjoy a lot of what you guys do. And you try to make things relatively easy to understand as well.
The texture!!!! I couldn't do it. I don't mind bug protein getting into my foods, but the idea of feeling the legs and wing textures on my tongue, or the texture of the internal squishyness, I'm retching just thinking about it.
I think that bugs would be a great source of food, but I don't think they are readily available as a food source in the area where I live(rural Iowa). But on the other hand we have a pig processing plant about 30 min away. I think that it would make more people want to eat bugs if they were more readily available like at the grocery store, but only dead ones. Living ones at the grocery store would be bad.
I've had snails, they're not bugs but close enough in people's mind. I would feel weird about worms though, because I associate those strongly with decay, so that would need some getting used to.
How could I add bugs to my diet while living in Madison Wisconsin? Are there cook books or stores or anything for people in places where bug based foods are uncommon?
Good episode. The whole meat out of plants idea is more appealing to me, but I'm sure I could find some bugs I like. Also would you consider doing an episode on cultured meat? It's meat that is grown from the stem cells of an animal. It sounds like a good option to me, if costs could be cut down.
As I was growing up I wouldn't eat anything with a face (basically fish). After moving to Japan and working in public schools, I've had to overcome my cultural predisposition to reject things like small, complete fish. I think it will just take time and willingness to change our perspectives to incorporate insect protein.
Ah yes, the "you've already eaten bugs accidentally so shut up and eat your bug bar" argument.
Definitely not illogical in any way shape or form, or hypocritical considering he will most likely eat bugs.
I will not eat ze vugs!!
eat the bugs, live in the pod
you will own nothing, you will be happy
If we start eating bugs in restaurants will we be able to complain if we have a fly in our meal?
Oh shit.
kmikhael:
Yes because it wasn't cooked at the right temperature...
77% blacks have weak stomachs so what will they do?
@@kybeastmode omg... what does blackness, or the absence of, have to do with this? lot's of people have sensitive stomachs
@contingent exe offended? i don't understand the relevance, not even enough to know if i should be offended
Steaks for me and bugs for thee
DAS RITE
Exactly right. Everything about this smells like double standards
@@contohasmr5876 I eat bugs from time to time. If given the option, I'll usually choose the bugs over a steak or a burger. They just taste really nice.
Tequila worms and riding a motorcycle without a face shield are my main sources of bug snacks.
I'll have to try that some time!
I'm pretty sure bugs aren't kosher.
Locusts are
St. John the Baptist lived on locusts and wild honey.
@@AN474-e1o thats an expression. He didnt actually eat honey and dead insects as a staple in his diet.
Bugs will need to be more thoroughly processed before mainstream consumers will eat them as more than a novelty. I don't want my food to LOOK like bugs.
***** Seems like we could make some kind of industrial scale de-shelling machine for bugs. They do it for shrimp, right?
In general people don't like their food to look like the animal it came from. We usually skin it, carve it, or grind it up. However, if it's candy, it's best to shape it like a worm.
+The Good Stuff let's make candy made from crickets shaped as worms! No one will notice! Muhhhahahaha
***** A few years ago I had a "candy bar" that was made from crickets. They had ground them up into a flour like powder to use as one of the ingredients.
There is stuff out there for the shelling and deveining of shrimp as well as other processes to process animals we already eat. It would be a fairly minimal issue to develop processes and machinery for various insects.
***** Your meat looks like muscle and tendons. What's the difference? Your societal baggage is showing.
+Dan Brown if you've ever had protein powder you'd love ours. No one can tell the difference between it and any other mainstream protein powder out there.
Accidentally eating bugs Isnt the same as eating them on purpose
No. I will not eat the bugs, I will not live in the pod.
Once when I was a little kid, I was sitting at a picnic table and I saw an ant crawling by me. So without even giving it much thought, I reached over and grabbed it and popped it in my mouth. The flavor was surprisingly sweet and a bit tangy. Years later I was snacking on Special K cereal with red berries, and I realized those dried strawberries (with no milk added) tasted exactly like that ant.
Also one time I was in South Africa on a guided safari tour thing, and our guide pulled the vehicle over at a termite mound and started picking up a bunch of termites and placing them on his palm. He brought them over to us and told us each to eat one. It tasted like spearmint, of all things!
And those are the only two times I've deliberately eaten bugs.
That's so cool. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
That's how kids get worms!
I saw an ant on the ground and was like hey, let me be like Bear Grylls. So I ate it. Pretty crunchy, but good.
I did that to a carpenter ant when I was 4 or 5 saw it crawling decided I wanted to know what it tasted like and it was the nastiest I ever tasted and never tried it again but who knows perhaps it would of tasted better cooked
Don't ants have a defense mechanism to prevent that, also how didn't you trigger that?
I haven't had any insects myself (consciously, anyway), but I don't particularly feel squeamish about it. I'd be very open to including them more in my diet.
I agree, I don't see why people are more inclined to eat genetically modified cows and chicken instead of bugs. If anything, the animals we do eat are much more intelligent and aware, so it's kind of messed up to raise them just to eat them.
Matthew Prorok i once tasted them and the legs are really ticklish and i had to take them off. also the mealworms tasted dry and insipid.
Matthew Prorok If there would just be something like bug fries or something, where they're squashed and then shaped, so it doesn't look like a bug, I would totally love it.
The Worst RUclipsr That's where things like cricket flour come in.
Eating bugs instead of meat and dairy would help the environment. If you eat the same amount of meat and dairy, but also eat bugs, there is no benefit. What would be the point?
I won't live in the pod
I don't eat bugs because I live in a place where no one likes to eat bugs and therefore it is not profitable to sell edible bugs to me.
What do people think shrimp, lobster, and crabs are?
Sea insects.
Mostly.
Sorta.
they're arthropods, but yes they are bugs
lohphat Most bugs live in extremely dirty places, that's why most people don't want to eat it. While crabs, lobsters and shrimp don't live in extremely dirty places.
Well, crabs are much larger then insects. However, unlike bugs, large amounts of crab can be easily caught with a crab net. Along with the already large amount of near in crabs and the fact that they are quite different then terrestrial invertebrates makes people much more willing to eat them.
Yeah the nutrition values are proportional in scale
During the convict transportation period of early Australian history, lobsters were considered “the cockroaches of the sea” and were fed to the convicts. There was even a massive protest at one point which led the authorities of the day to abandon the process. Now they are considered a very expensive delicacy. So shifts in perception nearly always translate into shifts in practice.
Do you think we'll need bug restaurants to become a widely accepted thing first, or more individuals making choices to seek out bugs for their own home cooking first for widespread insect consumption to become a thing and have a significant impact?
Alicia Bradley Looks to us like there are several companies trying to incorporate bugs into various different foods (see exo foods cricket protein bar www.exoprotein.com/). We imagine this is the start of eating actual bugs becoming more of a thing in homes and restaurants as it becomes more acceptable and appealing bit by bit!
i think the price of real meat will rise, and alternate protein sources will become more affordable
luciferangelica only for third worlders
Another propaganda from WEF
I will NOT eat bugs and I will NOT live in a pod
Haven't had any bugs, but I hope some companies try to include it as a protein additive to other things. Processed bugs that simply add protein to otherwise normal food would be much easier to "swallow" than eating bug carcasses.
Yeah, because if you can see it your natural disgust response would kick in, but if the companies lie to you and if you lie to yourself it's a much easier pill to swallow so to speak.
@@lordofthered1257 there are bugs in flour and other grain processing that we already don't see, but they're at a rather low quantity. I'd say there are more preferable sources of protein at this point. Would rather have some beans in my flour.
@@Voidward I too would rather not eat bugs. It's degrading and uncivilized.
The first time I ate a bug pretty much went like this:
Before: Eww, it still has the shell on it?
After: *(crunchcrunchcrunchcrunch)* What do you mean “yOu OnLy HaVe OnE”?
Fucking animal
I love the idea. I actually think the cultural stigma is something that could be easily corrected within a decade or two, but I worry about acceptance of our country's food culture, in general. We have things like hamburgers for a cookout, hotdogs for a campfire, sandwiches for a picnic. etc. Is there room for insects to not only move in, but end up a significant source of protein in our culture? I like the idea of the insect tacos that were eaten, but I fear that just a pile of prepared bugs wouldn't be as flashy as the big, multi-faceted meals that our society has come to love. I would like to see some interesting dishes made of bugs as an ingredient, and I think that could really help push cultural change towards bug eating.
-Nathan
If you truly feel that way, lead by example, goofus.
fuck that. If we normalize eating bugs then that's hard evidence that evolution can work backwards.
We could also change the stigma of living an pod and owning nothing, right?
"i recommend not serving them whole" immediately serves them whole
I really hope you guys talk about in-vitro/cultured meat. I really feel like that's the future of our obsession with animal protein.
BUGAPALOOZA 2015 IS SUNDAY AUG, 21 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
We will be cooking bugs for everyone to try.
Plus arts and crafts and all kinds of bug business. Great for families!
Emily Zajecka Sweet!
Emily Zajecka WHAT!? Bugapalooza! Sign me up. I can write a good song for the bugs.
So what you're saying is that eating insects shouldn't 'bug' us that much...heh heh
no? OKAAY
+Tyler Harris I thought it was funny
Genevieve Mays lol, thanks
+TMH I'm amazed they resisted the urge to use this pun.
Puns bug me. He he. Not really. Thumbs up.
All the people eating waygu beef on private jets asking you to eat bugs 😂
why i dont eat bugs:
Local grocery:
Bugs 25 grams €3,25
Beef 280 grams €4,67 ????
I've eaten flies before but that is just a common thing for any Australian when they goes outside in summer. The worst bit is when they get stuck and you can still feel them moving.
sign me up for the chocolate chirp cookies
Hey Matt and Craig, do you think through the Good Stuff you have been living more in a way? It seems like you have so many opportunities to talk to a lot of different people and have new experiences in every video.
Kristin Robinson Yeah! This show has been an excellent excuse to meet new and interesting people and check out exotic locations as well as learn a thing or two.
As someone with a (who had a?) pretty irrational fear of bugs, this helped me out a lot. At 8:00, for example, when the guy said "Some people might be watching me like 'ew, onion! They're gonna eat onion? They're gross'", that stood out to me. I absolutely love eating onions, the same way that many people love eating insects. I know that there's nothing wrong with eating an onion, and they made it clear in the video that there's nothing wrong with eating a bug, and there's actually more reasons why you should eat them than why you shouldn't! This was a great video.
Yay! You went to the Peggy Notebaert museum! We love it there!
Eat your bugs, take your public transportation, don’t ask too many questions. Stop letting these people take your dignity away. Disgusting.
Late to this video, but still like to say you've presented some convincing arguments and probably moved me a few steps closer to being receptive to the idea. I'm with those who'd probably prefer something that's been processed enough to look less like the whole bug, but then, I'm the same way with something like cow tongue, too. Good show, Good Stuff!
"Good stuff", this is a great playlist. I don't know how it will end, but I want to mention something: Of course we should research new food sources, but.... is it really needed to go so far? Mediterranean cuisine, includes red meat 2 to 4 times per month (depending the country), 4 times per month chicken and fish and then everything else. And it will be good for your health, it is tasteful, cheaper (the main idea was that people couldn't afford to eat more meat) and believe me... you wont get hungry! Of course I understand that it is not the solution for everything, but I believe it is easier for many people to make the change to mediterranean (or you could say "part vegetarian") cuisine than to "bug cuisine", and it requires less (none) research compared to "plant meat".
I started to raise meal worms to feed my local birds but after reading more into my hobby i have discovered unforeseen benefits than I originally intended. The Bugs make fertilizer for my garden and they can also sustain me if I need protein. I usually buy 50 lbs bags of wheat bran from my local pet supplier for about 10 dollars and with that I gain most of that in plant fertilizer(Frass) and a possible food source if need be. It's kind of a no brainer that we can supplement our animal meats with insects and I think we would be helping our Eco-system tremendously. I'm all for this.
A lot of dyes are made from bugs (that is what natural red 4 means) so you may be eating more bugs than you think! 🐛
Being Random Huh. Did not know that. Interesting.
***** cochineal dye
thats a lie you liar
I will not eat the bugs.
I love that they put DPC music in the background.
I'm having cultural difficulty with this. But you made it look good.
Does that mean if they packaged feces and made it look good like chocolatey would you still eat it? People can be foolish!!
Advocate for Truth you got me bro!
@@AdvocateforTruth Ummm...mate....faeces is a substance...I don't know how to break it to you...IS NOT SAFE TO EAT! Like, it is literally waste produced by our body. You can't make it look good, because, you simply can't. EVERY culture will tell you, faeces ewwwwww. Many cultures however, bugs yummmmm! Western society just needs to change its old habits, I mean. As he said in the video, people wouldn't eat crabs or lobsters when they first arrived in North America. Sushi was the same way, and still is in some ways.
@@camthepariah7866 Yeah how about we stick with progress and not eat bugs instead of regressing backwards. Any society that eats bugs is a backwards and primitive society. I'm not sorry.
Spring is coming up, any resources for making a bunch of edible bugs for us Americans? I really want to experiment with the idea when the snow thaws. It seems like I could have made a ton of protein in my old apartment patio even.
I will not eat the fucking bugs
Ive ordered some crickets a few days ago and they're supposed to arrive tomorrow, and I'm so hyped already!
Your mom
I just purchased 1kg of mealworms. Fed them with pepper and garlic. Fried them on the pan with garlic and onion. Beautiful. I'm looking into getting my own farming options.
Yeah, I'd get on the bugwagon but its mainly convenience. I don't think my local shop is gonna stock crickets anytime soon, and I don't know where else to buy them.
i would eat bugs for sure, problem is you cant get them in the supermarket here in germany, and when i googled some "special" stores for bugs, they cost a fortune, for example: 100gr which is like 1/2 cup, cost 20€ or about 30 $ and thats the really cheap bugs, there are some that cost for 100gr up to 100 dollars, and that is way to much if you on the other hand pay for 500gr beef about 9 dollars.
That is because the western world is not used to eating bugs so they usually don't farm them where you are. That means that they are imported from other parts of the world. That is perhaps why they are so expensive. Greetings from Mexico!
Justsomebiggerman2 look at feeder insects for reptiles and such.
You can probably set yourself up a meal worm farm. It's not too difficult, but that does seem like a bit much if you only wanted to try them.
Just imagine how cheap it will be once the insect industry kicks off.
this channel needs(deserves) more views, it's just unfair, keep up the good work guys
I had a scorpion at a bar recently as a part of a shot. very small scorpion, no longer than my pinkie finger. You pop the scorpion in your mouth, and wash it down with the shot. I can honestly say it's all about psyching yourself out. It was slightly bitter, and very crunchy, but not unpleasant. I'm sure seasoned properly it would be delicious.
It was that experience that made me seriously start thinking about bugs as a source of protein in my life.
This show is inspiring. A small, small part of me now wants to start a bug farm/resteraunt.
Where can I buy some to try/snack on? (US)
Another question for you! Did the question of whether having a vegetarian/vegan diet would affect or be affected by incorporating insects into the "mainstream" food industry enter into your conversation at all? I just wonder whether they had researched whether would be considered acceptable by people who choose vegetarian or vegan lifestyles due to ethical or environmental reasons to eat insects as a protein alternative, and if not, why?
I will not eat bugs, and I will not live in a pod.
some people here in Oman eat gigantic grasshoppers when they camp, i'v always been disgusted by that...not after this
I've convinced my bf to try chocolate covered ants with me! i'm actually really excited! tbh i'd eat chocolate covered anything thou >.>
I would and I believe that it's really good but it's going to take a long time for me to get over the disgust for them. I could probably eat ants or termites but anything much larger would really bother me.
Nope. I'll just stick to eating my beans and veggies for protein and other nutrients not found in bugs. It's interesting that when they cooked the bugs, they also sauteed veggies to make the bugs palatable.
We add flavoring to most foods to make it palatable. Ever eat a plain steak with absolutely no other outside ingredients added? I bet you haven't, because it'd be too tough and taste like garbage.
Eric Sanchez Yeah, I know meat is cooked with other ingredients to make it palatable. I used to eat meat. My point is, why not just eat the sauteed veggies with whole grains and refried beans? At least we can easily find a lot more information on the nutritional value of plants. Plus, there's a variety of plants with protein if protein intake alone is a concern.
***** Vegan diets do not kill animals at the exponential scale that eating meat does. What uses more resources and contributes to climate change? Animal agriculture does. (Source: www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm)
"Look at me everybody, I'm a vegetarian! You can tell how secure I am by the way I'm professing it from a soap box!"
Amanda Lee Dube *slow claps*
The dried cricket for example, do they die immediately or do any bugs suffer in the process? When you poor it down in boiling water I suppose they die right away but if you fry it, shouldn't they crawl in pain?
Termites are actually pretty significant releasers methane, at least by natural standards. I wonder what effect they'd have on methane emission levels if they were farmed/produced on an agricultural level.
Bugs are the way forward for ethical and economical farming protein. I've tried deep fried scorpions already. The texture was a little "sandy" but it tasted otherwise very good. I'm not sure how I'd feel about eating grubs and more "bulbous" looking insects though.
BowNow Ooh I forgot about that good point
Even if they are quite large producers of methane I'd imagine that it's still much mess as a whole than something like beef. But a very good point and I'd like to see the actual data cause there's no point in switching to bug protein of they have the same negative effect on the environment.
if raised in small enclosures, it is possible to capture and use the methane for fuel. will it ever be done? doubt it.
+cyanidejunkie117 We have millions of gallons of methane for fuel, we aren't running out of it and doing this would be very expensive and not even close to profitable.
If they are significant methane producers, then the farms could double up as a natural gas source if the farmers harvests them
I would like to not only like, but double like each of your last two videos! Very interesting. Thanks :)
I don't know if I'd start eating a lot of bugs just as bugs, but I'd certainly be open to different flours, meals, and processed products using them. I feel like you could create a good meat substitute, sort of like beyond meat, using bugs as the protein source...
What I'm curious is, where does one acquire bugs for human consumption? Not that many places I know of serve insects in the states nor am I aware of too many grocery stores that carry them.
I think part of the problem stems back from what Steve was saying about feeling like you're eating the whole thing. With a lobster, you're still only seeing the inside when you eat it. With a bug you see the head...the tail...everything. It would be a bit wasteful, but perhaps cutting off those bits would make them more palatable?
Anyway, I hope this continues to happen. I'm not going out of my way to track down bug meals or anything but if confronted with the situation, I think I'll give it a go. :)
i dont really see ground bug patties becoming common on supermarket shelves anytime soon
I had some grasshopper and cockroach when I was in vietnam and cambodia. I was hesitant at first but did it for the novely. And I honestly really enjoyed them, they tasted like BBQ chips. I was eating the whole grasshopper, head and all, and i honestly loved every bit of it.
While I totally get the pros to eating bugs and adventure involve in acquiring a new taste and changing your mindset, I don't know if I could mentally get over that hurdle! If I have kids, I will teach them to not be afraid of eating bugs! More protein for them. That being said, I did try eating tiny flavored crickets and that was a creepy experience.
Kudos to Craig for jumping head first and tasting these dishes.... do you think you would bring this into your daily life and how would you convince your fiancée to try it?
I live in Taiwan, and bees fried in vegetable oil with onions and chilis is a common snack in aboriginal cuisine. The mouth feel is kind of... between potatoes and whitefish. I was hesitant at first to try them, but they're really good! Bees, whodathunkit.
If we are serious about heading off-planet for any truly extended period of time (e.g. colonising Mars) I”m absolutely convinced that cultivating, maintaining and consuming bugs is not only practical, but probably essential considering weight, space and resource costs. At least in the early stages.
You know what else is a great source of protein? Eggs. And they're not as bad for you as you've been brought on to believe. Yes, they do raise cholesterol. But those are healthy natural cholesterol, which increases testosterone. Eggs also contains all vitamins, except vitamin-c. They're also rich on iron, zinc and calcium. Is it any wonder why they're a favorite among athletes?
I'd love to incorporate more of this into my own diet, but it doesn't seem super accessible yet. Even in Phoenix, there's only one restaurant (being advertised) that serves chapulines, and our Mexican food scene is (obviously) extremely robust. Is this something I'll need to just ease into through Amazon purchases?
I've tried bugs a year ago, and since then I've been interested in cooking regularly with bugs. However, I don't even know where to buy some in my country. It's been a while since I haven't checked, so I will.
Where can I buy edible bugs? Do people sell pre-cooked bugs at farmer's markets or grocery stores.
I don't know how you've managed it, but every topic you've come up with have been about things I'm incredibly interested in! Thank you so so dang much for doing this! This is awesome.
Are you also interested in living in a pod?
Chocolate chirp cookie is the cutest name for a cookie with embedded bugs. XD
2 questions:
Did you gents receive any recommendations on bug cookbooks or websites to find recipes? Also, the fare in this video is so exotic, any thoughts on eating local bugs? Trying to think where I'd go to get these in SE Pennsylvania. It's like a sweet new brand of hunting and gathering!
Awesome, challenging video you guys. Love it
Bugs, Seaweed, Potatoes, Jams, Taro, Maniok, Grain, Corn, Rice, Quinoa, Jellyfish...all these things could save world hunger !!!!
that looks so good actually. I just have no idea where i could even get bugs
i ate grasshoppers from time to time, when my friend brings them to school as snacks. It's pretty common to snack on grasshopper here (i live in southeast asia). But my mom never made insect-based meals, though. She's a bit squeamish when it comes to bugs.
I would eat bugs the way you guys did there, but the problem is, there's no way to get them in regular supermarkets, at least where I live (the Netherlands).
commenting as I eat my deep fried mealworms... my favorite is stir fried wax worms-they taste so good-the texture is amazing
Good topic, time to make a startup... Anyone know some good bugs I can purchase?
I've eaten termites alive and dried crickets for a snack, and they are very tasty!
As long as spiders are not in the menu, I probably will try this.
you "eat" average 8 spiders a year when you are sleeping
David Soellaart huh?
@@davidsoellaart8956 Debunked myth
@@maestro9765 you're right it is debunked. I was wrong.
Long time ago when i watched this video...
Spiders are not bugs
A good analogy for this is Fish bone vs Bug leg stuck on your teeth. Given that both have been cooked well, there should be no difference.
But do try to make plants your main source of food. It has been said over and over again, eat your vegetables.
As a South African I feel the need to correct this guy, yes we do eat the Mopani worm, dead and dried. But it does NOT form part of our protein diet. It's a delicacy only, no one here "live off it". We eat, fish, meat, poultry. Dude, we have a Macdonald and a KFC in nearly every town. Stop it
Have you guys ever thought about airing The Good Stuff on TV somewhere? I'm sure a more educational, sciency channel might really enjoy a lot of what you guys do. And you try to make things relatively easy to understand as well.
Where can I buy these products? Also how much would a pound of meal worm be in comparison to that of beef?
I would consider eating them but i havent found them laying in the stores, yet.
The texture!!!! I couldn't do it. I don't mind bug protein getting into my foods, but the idea of feeling the legs and wing textures on my tongue, or the texture of the internal squishyness, I'm retching just thinking about it.
How do you prepare it? Cook it?
I've had some crickets before, and once they're fried, they're just little crispy deliciousness!
I think that bugs would be a great source of food, but I don't think they are readily available as a food source in the area where I live(rural Iowa). But on the other hand we have a pig processing plant about 30 min away. I think that it would make more people want to eat bugs if they were more readily available like at the grocery store, but only dead ones. Living ones at the grocery store would be bad.
I've had snails, they're not bugs but close enough in people's mind. I would feel weird about worms though, because I associate those strongly with decay, so that would need some getting used to.
My problem with insects is that they have to be eaten whole, you eat the eyes, brains, hearts, etc. With meat and seafood you remove those parts
It should be the prison diet for the corrupt politicians and media proposing this shit.
i had salted fried crickets. didn't taste like much besides the salt, but was pretty good.
How could I add bugs to my diet while living in Madison Wisconsin? Are there cook books or stores or anything for people in places where bug based foods are uncommon?
Good episode. The whole meat out of plants idea is more appealing to me, but I'm sure I could find some bugs I like.
Also would you consider doing an episode on cultured meat? It's meat that is grown from the stem cells of an animal. It sounds like a good option to me, if costs could be cut down.
what is the height of ickiness?
After watching the mealworm fries video, and new this, I really like how casual y'all talk about the subject... Darn it, I'm subbing, aren't I?
As I was growing up I wouldn't eat anything with a face (basically fish). After moving to Japan and working in public schools, I've had to overcome my cultural predisposition to reject things like small, complete fish. I think it will just take time and willingness to change our perspectives to incorporate insect protein.
I've eaten bugs they are pretty cool. I am not much of a fan but to be fair tofu needs a little more spice to be edible.