Care for a Beetle Burger?

[Axtremus]

If proteins with good nutritional profiles can be produced in an environmentally friendlier, more economically way, why not? I would love to try more insect based proteins.

[Jolly]

Protein for the masses, filet mignon for the rich.

[Mik]

How long can it be before we see PETI.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

How long can it be before we see PETI.

Are we going to be allowed to call them PETIphiles?

[Catseye3]

@Axtremus said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

I would love to try more insect based proteins.
^

Feh

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

I would love to try more insect based proteins.

You can get "chocolate chirp cookies" at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans.

Nutritional values posted:

[Jolly]

I take it you tried one?

[George K]

@Jolly said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

I take it you tried one?

Not just no, but "HELL NO!"

[Copper]

no

[George K]

In a blind taste-test, I'm not sure if I could identify which was the insect-cookie.

That said, I'm not sure I want to participate in that study, LOL.

[Mik]

@George-K said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

In a blind taste-test, I'm not sure if I could identify which was the insect-cookie.

Yeah but what if you could…… ewwww

[Klaus]

I did eat some foods made from insects. They tasted ok. I wouldn't mind eating insects if the taste is good and the food is healthy. The disgust reaction is rather immature imo.

[George K]

@Klaus said in Care for a Beetle Burger?:

I wouldn't mind eating insects if the taste is good and the food is healthy. The disgust reaction is rather immature imo.

Agreed.

This sort of transitions into the "impossible burger" and its ilk. The idea is to make a piece of food taste like something that it's not. I've tasted them (and others like them), and they're OK. Not the same, but OK.

OTOH, your comment about disgust rings more than true. I wonder if anyone who is disgusted has ever been to a sloughter house? They probably think their strip steak comes from a factory that produces the steak on a styrofoam container, wrapped in plastic.