I am shocked! I tasted grasshoppers at a travel fair once, they did not remove ANYTHING - they had wings, legs, and the soft goo-filled tail really was not to my liking. I liked the rest of it, the head and body. I wish they had prepared it properly! We dont have a lot of grasshoppers in Denmark, but I do collect herbs for food and teas here, so maybe I should go hop-hunting!
That looks delicious! I've only ever had them roasted and salted before, which was good, but I would love to try them like this as well. Roasted I think they taste like sunflower seeds.
Honestly removing the legs of those spines/ hairs don't scratch your throat makes all the difference. Crickets and grasshoppers just taste nutty like cashews or peanuts.
I bet it's kinda like lobster. You don't actually kill them before dropping in the pot, which sounds barbaric, but I don’t believe insects or other invertebrates like lobsters, shrimp, crawdads, etc. have central nervous systems like mammals, reptiles, birds, etc do. Pretty sure they don't have pain receptors. But I'm by no means an expert here. 🤷🏻♀️
We don't kill grasshoppers in Uganda. They are collected by arranging iron sheets with electric bulbs above them. They're are attracted by light and come fall into the tanks then collected in sucks, some just suffocate but aren't killed.
What a cool video! I know there's a lot of environmental reasons that we should (all!) be eating grasshoppers, but I've never seen a recipe for them before -- thanks so much!
Thank you for sharing the recipe! These look like Katydids, here in Midwest USA. We have a huge cicada emergence coming up soon - also apparently delicious. Although I have a terrible psychological barrier to eating insects, I am trying to change that.
@jackiedelvalle 🤣 Good question!! 🤣 No, I'm interested in eating from my yard, and developing seasonal dishes from whatever is growing. I might not totally live off it, but knowing how to live from (and with) the nature around me makes me feel like I belong, like I'm home. 😁
They come or appear in two seasons..if you come and want to try them, come in the months of May as the first season and 2nd season is November.. They are really delicious 😋 am sure you will love them
My son and I loved this video - so informative and nice singing! We were curious how the grasshoppers were contained so that you could remove the various parts - our grasshoppers where we live would just jump away!
Those grasshoppers taste like crisp roasted chicken. They come out seasonally. When I was growing up we would see fireflies and all sorts of bugs. But the city council ; in trying to get rid of mosquitoes would spray pesticides which unfortunately killed a lot of bugs including those grasshoppers.
My daughter did a presentation on Uganda in school this year. Her favorite fact was about the delicacy of fried grasshoppers (the website that we learned this from called them bush crickets though). You make the dish look pretty tasty!
In Mexico we eat small grasshoppers also. So interesting to see how you prepare them. Insects are such a rich source of protein. Big fan of you and your content!
I would love to try it sometimes! I live in the Netherlands and It's not very widely available here, maybe I can come to Uganda one day and have a fresh bowl of them 😊
How interesting! Can't say it's something I'm willing to try, but it's genuinely interesting how life is lived elsewhere. They're full of protein, fibre and nutrients, it's just the ick factor for me! Thankyou for sharing
butal? Compared to what? How we breed chicken to the point they break their bones? Or how we breed salmon in salmon farms? Or how we destroy massive rainforest areas for organic, vegan plantations?
@Lohfert I do not eat meat. It's all brutal. I'm not saying that just because one thing is brutal doesn't mean that something else isn't. Tearing the legs and wings off a creature with bare hands is brutal. That's just true. However, everything else you stated is also cruel.
Well one of those is done in a sustainable way, and those other sources of food are unsustainable and cruel. I will take the cruel sustainable way, over the cruel unsustainable one. @@Just_Deven
Okay the thought of eating any bug or insect bothers me, but I have to say that did look pretty good! Love your videos Miss Joy. Thank you for sharing your life.
@@Godisfirst21I'm the same. I'll stick with what's best for our bodies according to nature: red meat and other animal products followed by veg and occasional fruit. That'll do me, thanks. I'm not interested in surviving off medication.
I wonder how they taste like. I live in Europe. I have seen the green grasshopper here. I wonder if ours is edible! Seeing you eat with enjoyment have made me really curious! ❤
The way you sing as you season them, they must be tasty... However, as much as I admire and trust you, i don't Believe I could bring myself to eat insects... The way the world is going... I'll keep the recipe in mind.
They seem delicious but I couldn't eat them if you told me beforehand they're grasshoppers. Just lie to me and tell me they're fried green beans or something lol 😅
@@lau-renpandoura3192Insects have quite a developed nervous system, which is usually meant to recognise threat and stimulate the organism to move away from its source. So, I don’t think these can just ignore loosing their legs even if you don’t hear them screaming
You know, I doubt the meats (animals) in other parts of the world are sedated before they are sent to the slaughter. It’s just the reality of eating meat, I suppose and is scarier on a larger scale.
@@lau-renpandoura3192 Indeed, it is. Wikipedia: "Pain in invertebrates" : "A 2022 review found strong evidence for pain in adult insects of two orders (Blattodea: cockroaches and termites; Diptera: flies and mosquitoes) and found substantial evidence for pain in adult insects of three additional orders (Hymenoptera: sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants; Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies; and Orthoptera: grasshoppers, crickets, wētā and locusts), in addition to some juvenile insects. "
Absolute western rubbish. Prove that living off insects is sustainable for our bodies without tonnes of medication? Sheesh, the stuff people will believe is mind-blowing.
@@eyescreamcake veganism is too extreme, it's not going to become a realistic dietary lifestyle for the vast majority of the world. Vegetarianism, sure. But veganism is militant, considering honey and even locally sourced farm chicken eggs to be unethical. Nobody aside from privileged, upper middle class westerners take it seriously.
I dont know my african friend. When I was at school I got judge because I almost throw a rock to an insect and felt bad about it. Instead you torture atleast 30 of them when u are hungry and than cook them alive. Dont know if I feel good or bad about it.
I studied entomology in college, insects don’t feel pain(or if they do, they don’t feel it the same way we do because of their nervous system). They likely died when they were washed in the water because insects get oxygen basically through diffusion through holes in their body. Insects can live for a pretty long time, even if they’re completely disemboweled, but they don’t show aggressive behaviors(that might indicate pain).
I get how you feel, but also remember plants are alive as well. Trees talk to one another through the myecelium network. Everything we eat or drink is alive or used to be. If you grow a garden and pick something and eat it, you are eating something that’s still alive. I know it’s hard when we eat things that have eyes and can move around freely but it’s truly not that much different with plants, trees, vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, flowers and so on. Much love. ☺️💚✨
@@meredithmitchell8921 That's such nonsense. Of course they feel pain. These are just rationalizations that humans make to feel better about killing animals for food, because our predatory nature towards most other species conflicts with our caring nature for our own species, and the gray area in between of pets and livestock that we care for.
Yes, another African youtuber that I used to really like turned out to be some sort of Bill Gates associate. We were following her funny, sarcastic videos for ages, then suddenly one day she did a BG interview where he started banging on about changes Africa needed to make!!! I unsubscribed at that point. Really hoping Aketch isn't another one. 🙄
gross hurting animals. i wouldn't eat anything that is trying to escape from me and trying to avoid pain . i have empathy and it's rude if i don't need to. i can go to the store or eat something else. i'm not greedy.
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You are so beautiful, flawless smooth skin and your voice is calming. Thank you for sharing this delicacy with us.
Thank you so much!
They look like a perfect beer snack
They definitely look more appetizing without the legs, etc.
In part of Mexico, Oaxaca, specifically,they cook grasshoppers and make quesadillas and other dishes with them.
Yum
That looks like snap peas or green beans
. Hell if you wouldn't have told me i would now have known
I am shocked! I tasted grasshoppers at a travel fair once, they did not remove ANYTHING - they had wings, legs, and the soft goo-filled tail really was not to my liking. I liked the rest of it, the head and body. I wish they had prepared it properly!
We dont have a lot of grasshoppers in Denmark, but I do collect herbs for food and teas here, so maybe I should go hop-hunting!
They look kinda like peas once you take off the legs and other parts, tasty!
Thank you. I love trying new foods and you have made this look so good.
Looks like shrimp! Would love to try it. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
In Cameroon when i was a kid we use to eat it too its so yummy. Nowadays they are so seldom to see around
That looks delicious! I've only ever had them roasted and salted before, which was good, but I would love to try them like this as well. Roasted I think they taste like sunflower seeds.
I used to eat them in Mexico. There we ate them with only salt, a bit of chili and lemonjuice. And only those, who lived in the cornfields. Very good.
Joy, your dress looks really beautiful and your grasshopper meal looks delicious 🔥
Those are delicious. I haven’t eaten them in years. This is the most delicious snack.
Honestly removing the legs of those spines/ hairs don't scratch your throat makes all the difference. Crickets and grasshoppers just taste nutty like cashews or peanuts.
Real African queen be like, for life and for the life 🙏🏽🙃💪🏾👸🏾✨🤩👌🏽
I wish I could eat them through the screen, 😅they looks delicious! 👌🏾☺️
Thank you 😋
I remember eating grass hopers once even I was young. Idk why my mom stopped making them. I wouldn’t mind trying them again someday.
How do you collect them? And how do you kill them before removing the inedible parts?
She skipped that part on purpose. We can't handle the truth.
@@Godisfirst21 🫢 You may be right. I’m still curious though.
It's so simple..no big deal about it.. pluck off legs, remove wings..not hard ..then start to prepare as she showed it..
I bet it's kinda like lobster. You don't actually kill them before dropping in the pot, which sounds barbaric, but I don’t believe insects or other invertebrates like lobsters, shrimp, crawdads, etc. have central nervous systems like mammals, reptiles, birds, etc do. Pretty sure they don't have pain receptors. But I'm by no means an expert here. 🤷🏻♀️
We don't kill grasshoppers in Uganda. They are collected by arranging iron sheets with electric bulbs above them. They're are attracted by light and come fall into the tanks then collected in sucks, some just suffocate but aren't killed.
Wowww ❤❤❤❤
What a cool video! I know there's a lot of environmental reasons that we should (all!) be eating grasshoppers, but I've never seen a recipe for them before -- thanks so much!
Nope, nope, nope, nope! But you do you, girl! 😂😂😂
Ps, love your nails.
Same. No thank you. I’ll munch on my beans with no eyes, antennae or legs over here thank you.
Grasshoppers are delicious!
Not me thinking "is it Tuesday already??"☺️☺️Thanks for the nice surprise Mami.. the perks of being a Lovely Love😅😊
WAW 🥰💙
Thank you for sharing the recipe! These look like Katydids, here in Midwest USA. We have a huge cicada emergence coming up soon - also apparently delicious.
Although I have a terrible psychological barrier to eating insects, I am trying to change that.
Why???! 😂😂😂
@jackiedelvalle 🤣 Good question!! 🤣
No, I'm interested in eating from my yard, and developing seasonal dishes from whatever is growing. I might not totally live off it, but knowing how to live from (and with) the nature around me makes me feel like I belong, like I'm home. 😁
That looks so delicious! I love trying different foods and would love to try this should I ever travel to your country.
They come or appear in two seasons..if you come and want to try them, come in the months of May as the first season and 2nd season is November..
They are really delicious 😋 am sure you will love them
My son and I loved this video - so informative and nice singing! We were curious how the grasshoppers were contained so that you could remove the various parts - our grasshoppers where we live would just jump away!
No grasshoppers were hurt in the making of this film.
I’m gonna steal your hairstyle thanks for the idea lol❤❤❤❤
Please do! 😂
Those grasshoppers taste like crisp roasted chicken. They come out seasonally.
When I was growing up we would see fireflies and all sorts of bugs. But the city council ; in trying to get rid of mosquitoes would spray pesticides which unfortunately killed a lot of bugs including those grasshoppers.
My daughter did a presentation on Uganda in school this year. Her favorite fact was about the delicacy of fried grasshoppers (the website that we learned this from called them bush crickets though). You make the dish look pretty tasty!
They look like crunchy pea pods 😊
Glad you like them but I could never 😮
This feels exactly like people eating Shrimps.... Its weird you know? Butbto each their own, im not judging, im just saying im seeing the similarites
I was watching this and put lout went "huh, land shrimps" Good to know I wasn't alone in that thought 😂
In Mexico we eat small grasshoppers also. So interesting to see how you prepare them. Insects are such a rich source of protein.
Big fan of you and your content!
I wonder if I can get ahold of enough of them at one time to make this. I’m going to try!!! ❤
I would love to try it sometimes! I live in the Netherlands and It's not very widely available here, maybe I can come to Uganda one day and have a fresh bowl of them 😊
Yes perfect grasshopper season is November . Available everywhere and more affordable . So come during that time
@@AketchJoyWinnie Thank you, I will remember that! Have a lovely day ♥️
Thank you
How interesting! Can't say it's something I'm willing to try, but it's genuinely interesting how life is lived elsewhere.
They're full of protein, fibre and nutrients, it's just the ick factor for me!
Thankyou for sharing
Land shrimp 🥰
👍👍👍👍👍
😢😢am mouth watering..can I join you please..I love grasshoppers sooooo much.❤
Yes you can
What does the inside of cooked grasshopper feel when you chew?
Its kinda brutal but to each there own.
butal? Compared to what? How we breed chicken to the point they break their bones? Or how we breed salmon in salmon farms? Or how we destroy massive rainforest areas for organic, vegan plantations?
@Lohfert I do not eat meat. It's all brutal. I'm not saying that just because one thing is brutal doesn't mean that something else isn't. Tearing the legs and wings off a creature with bare hands is brutal. That's just true. However, everything else you stated is also cruel.
Well one of those is done in a sustainable way, and those other sources of food are unsustainable and cruel. I will take the cruel sustainable way, over the cruel unsustainable one. @@Just_Deven
I am traumatized but bon appetit ❤️
Okay the thought of eating any bug or insect bothers me, but I have to say that did look pretty good!
Love your videos Miss Joy. Thank you for sharing your life.
It shows that your perspective can shift quite easily.
My perspective hasn't changed a bit.
I'll stick with my tomato sandwich. To each their own.
@@Godisfirst21 I would try it, but I don't think it's a good replacement for meat or even just nuts like Almonds.
@@Godisfirst21I'm the same. I'll stick with what's best for our bodies according to nature: red meat and other animal products followed by veg and occasional fruit. That'll do me, thanks. I'm not interested in surviving off medication.
They also carry parasites but I would still try them
I wonder how they taste like. I live in Europe. I have seen the green grasshopper here. I wonder if ours is edible! Seeing you eat with enjoyment have made me really curious! ❤
Feathers are called wings
😂😂😂😂😂😂 thank you thank you thank you
@@AketchJoyWinnie of course! Birds are the only living thing with feathers as well
The way you sing as you season them, they must be tasty... However, as much as I admire and trust you, i don't Believe I could bring myself to eat insects... The way the world is going... I'll keep the recipe in mind.
A bit cruel to kill them.by literally ripping them in half alive
It’s taste like prawns
Like little shrimps.
Now that's how you save your crops!! Looks delectable. Hope to visit your country when I arrive on continent next week. 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎
Theyre still alive when you cook them?
They seem delicious but I couldn't eat them if you told me beforehand they're grasshoppers. Just lie to me and tell me they're fried green beans or something lol
😅
I’d have to leave them for the chickens I couldn’t 🤢🤢
Ведь в них полно паразитов, посмотрите в микроскоп
For real its crazy
By cooking they will get killed.
так паразиты ж тоже зажариваются, получается дополнительный белок…
Not judging, just asking : Are we talking about dismembering living grasshoppers?
I believe they don’t have pain receptors if that’s your concern
How are they killed before cooking?
@@lau-renpandoura3192Insects have quite a developed nervous system, which is usually meant to recognise threat and stimulate the organism to move away from its source. So, I don’t think these can just ignore loosing their legs even if you don’t hear them screaming
You know, I doubt the meats (animals) in other parts of the world are sedated before they are sent to the slaughter.
It’s just the reality of eating meat, I suppose and is scarier on a larger scale.
@@lau-renpandoura3192 Indeed, it is. Wikipedia: "Pain in invertebrates" : "A 2022 review found strong evidence for pain in adult insects of two orders (Blattodea: cockroaches and termites; Diptera: flies and mosquitoes) and found substantial evidence for pain in adult insects of three additional orders (Hymenoptera: sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants; Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies; and Orthoptera: grasshoppers, crickets, wētā and locusts), in addition to some juvenile insects. "
Is there any movement of veganism in Uganda?
Oh I find that an interesting question, too!
No, there isnt any movement of the sort. Am sure Ugandans will call that “ebyabazungu”
😅😅Am sorry 😅
Let's hope not. Very unhealthy.
@@jackiedelvalle if they were, we would have died😜🙈
@@jackiedelvalle What's unhealthy about veganism?
We could help curb greenhouse emissions if we all replaced some livestock with insect protein sources
This is literally a tactic of war to get people weaker
Please, continue eating meat, and healthy vegetables.
Absolute western rubbish. Prove that living off insects is sustainable for our bodies without tonnes of medication?
Sheesh, the stuff people will believe is mind-blowing.
Or just go with vegan protein sources...
@@eyescreamcake veganism is too extreme, it's not going to become a realistic dietary lifestyle for the vast majority of the world. Vegetarianism, sure. But veganism is militant, considering honey and even locally sourced farm chicken eggs to be unethical. Nobody aside from privileged, upper middle class westerners take it seriously.
@@eyescreamcake Anything better than Tofu?
I like Almonds myself
Yes!!!! I’m a huge supporter of entomophagy! They’re so nutritious and much better for the environment!
Not better for health though and that's what counts, I'm afraid. They could NOT be the mainstay of a human diet.
I dont know my african friend. When I was at school I got judge because I almost throw a rock to an insect and felt bad about it. Instead you torture atleast 30 of them when u are hungry and than cook them alive. Dont know if I feel good or bad about it.
you remove the legs when they are still alive?? and then cook them alive? 😢😢😢😢
You prepare and cook so many animals alive like clams and also lobster
@@m.s.3041 That doesn't make it better. It's not ok either to cook lobsters alive.
I studied entomology in college, insects don’t feel pain(or if they do, they don’t feel it the same way we do because of their nervous system). They likely died when they were washed in the water because insects get oxygen basically through diffusion through holes in their body. Insects can live for a pretty long time, even if they’re completely disemboweled, but they don’t show aggressive behaviors(that might indicate pain).
I get how you feel, but also remember plants are alive as well.
Trees talk to one another through the myecelium network. Everything we eat or drink is alive or used to be.
If you grow a garden and pick something and eat it, you are eating something that’s still alive.
I know it’s hard when we eat things that have eyes and can move around freely but it’s truly not that much different with plants, trees, vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, flowers and so on.
Much love. ☺️💚✨
@@meredithmitchell8921 That's such nonsense. Of course they feel pain. These are just rationalizations that humans make to feel better about killing animals for food, because our predatory nature towards most other species conflicts with our caring nature for our own species, and the gray area in between of pets and livestock that we care for.
I'll pass. I'm eating a tomato sandwich on a fresh lightly toasted bun. Yum yum. Love, don't judge.
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Yes, another African youtuber that I used to really like turned out to be some sort of Bill Gates associate. We were following her funny, sarcastic videos for ages, then suddenly one day she did a BG interview where he started banging on about changes Africa needed to make!!! I unsubscribed at that point. Really hoping Aketch isn't another one. 🙄
@@jackiedelvalle You think she works for Bill Gates?? lol. Do you think that Bill Gates designed microchips for the COVID vaccines, too?
gross hurting animals. i wouldn't eat anything that is trying to escape from me and trying to avoid pain . i have empathy and it's rude if i don't need to. i can go to the store or eat something else. i'm not greedy.
Okay . 🙏🏿
Gross
Thanks