Personal experiences of insect-based cuisine

[sabotabby]

Setting is a sci-fi/fantasyish world that includes, among other fun things, fly-like insects that are approximately the size of housecats. One culture hunts and eats these insects as their main source of protein. A character from another culture is adopted into the community, and is basically eating roast bug for the first time in her life

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[tiferet]

A lobster is basically a big ass water bug.

[sollersuk]

And don't forget shrimps, prawns, langoustines *starts drooling*

And CRABS. Bloody huge spiders as far as I'm concerned *drools even more*

[joereaves]

Please to not be saying that lol. Love crab, terrified of spiders :D

[alpha_orionis_v]

Ants taste a bit like almonds.

But I didn't cook them. They were alive when I ate them.

[sollersuk]

Like oysters?

Sudden memory of my mother cleaning cockles. She used to take two out, twist the hinges of the shells together to break them and eat them alive alive-o. I thought she was being a bit tactless to talk about it while swirling the live cockles around; so did one of them. It bit her.

[alpha_orionis_v]

OW!

I've not done uncooked oysters, actually. I've been meaning to try, but I never really get the chance.

[chickenfeet2003]

Rice field cockroaches are pretty much like rice field crabs. Crunchy and not much else. I would imagine a bigger bug would be like eating a yabby or a crayfish. Aren't spider crabs actually giant marine spiders?

[marukka]

Aren't spider crabs actually giant marine spiders?

Just in the interest of accuracy: No.

[valles_uf]

Incidentally, these flies probably won't fly in precisely the manner of their smaller cousins. My understanding is that the mechanism insects use to drive their wings has some pretty strict upper limits on its function.

No clue what those are, though.

[sabotabby]

They don't; no worries.

[darksylvia]

This may not be useful, but silk worms smell like broccoli (only possibly worse) when being fried on the street. I didn't actually eat one.