Basically. I didn’t want to coat them in chocolate or fake them out in any way. I guess the bleached, processed mealworm flour could work, but you’d have to add so much sugar I just don’t see it’s worth it.
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The sugar part intrigues me since just about every flour I cook with has a savory or at least flat taste to it. I'm trying to figure out what a "hair taste" would be other than just awful grease and keratin. If bugs taste like the equivalent of eating your fingernails when you haven't washed your hands then I'm now even less interested in the idea.
Y’know? “Dirty fingernails.” You kinda nailed it.
I’m no cook, though, so if you know what you’re doing with spices and so on, it might be worth an experiment. I have to say I’d take bugs over soy flour.
Unpalatable to most people? It's almost like we're not supposed to be eating them.
That can't be true though, since the authorities swear they're very good and healthy for us.
We're not supposed to be eating most shellfish either but get between me and the crab legs and you'll be the one at the bottom of the ocean.
On a more serious note, since I last posted in this thread there's been some question about whether or not bugs are even practical at all as a cheap source of food. Because nobody can figure out a proper scheme to process them into edible matter (IE: not dried up dead bugs in a bag) its difficult to tell how much energy the process would actually require.
You see the nutrients of an insect are mostly contained in their big fat disgusting abdomens. Their heads have virtually no nutrient value, their legs are too tiny and their hard carapaces, while they contain some protein, are indigestible chitin. Soft insects like maggots and grubs are either too small to farm or have a long larval stage which would make them inefficent in the long run.
Short version is "eat the bugs" might just be a meme and the threat of them becoming a major food source is minimal. Its probably just a marketing gimmick for some hipster food company.
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