Personal experiences of insect-based cuisine
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.
Googling reveals a number of articles on insects as food, but I'm looking more for personal experiences of what insects actually taste like-and moreover, what's the texture like? Do they just absorb the flavour of whatever you cook them in? What's it like eating a bug for the first time if you didn't grow up eating them?
EDIT: You folks are so helpful! I can have varieties of buggish flavours.
Googling reveals a number of articles on insects as food, but I'm looking more for personal experiences of what insects actually taste like-and moreover, what's the texture like? Do they just absorb the flavour of whatever you cook them in? What's it like eating a bug for the first time if you didn't grow up eating them?
EDIT: You folks are so helpful! I can have varieties of buggish flavours.