if roaches tasted like chocolate?

akaisilks · 08-06-2008, 05:16 PM

i know ...totally unrelated...

but if they did, would you eat them?

khanjar · 08-06-2008, 05:43 PM

If I was hungry and had nothing to eat other than insects, yep I would eat them, if they tasted like chocolate or not. The trick to it I suppose, is to imagine you are eating a dried date. You'd have to pull the legs and antennae off first.

Salome · 08-06-2008, 06:15 PM

Do they just taste like chocolate but still have slimy guts or is the texture like chocolate too?

akaisilks · 08-06-2008, 06:16 PM

i always wondered if maybe they tasted really good and we are just missing out

my ten month old may volunteer to try ..he eats anything

akaisilks · 08-06-2008, 06:18 PM

uhh yeah the wings and guts would still be there..

i can't believe i'm getting 'used to' large flying roaches in hawaii..

Salome · 08-06-2008, 06:20 PM

I try to be pretty adventurous with food when I'm on the road. I have eaten grass hoppers, deep fried of course, when I was in Thailand. But of bugs, that's all I can remember (intentionally) eating. I have two aversions centipedes and roaches. Lord mercy, they both give me the willies. Maybe I should eat one, could be empowering. Deep fried of course.

da Sage · 08-06-2008, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by akaisilks

i know ...totally unrelated...

but if they did, would you eat them?

NO.

(ewwww!)

Moon · 08-06-2008, 09:24 PM

I would try it, but are they healthy?

I know grasshoppers taste a bit like fish. I think quite a lot of people would actually like the taste.
I still had problems with the idea of eating the intestines too, though. I know what they look like... thank you teacher who put them on my table...

Shanazel · 08-08-2008, 10:56 PM

We are totally buggy, you realize that, don't you? At least I assume we are talking about a leggy roach and not the remainder of one of those funny cigarettes. I wouldn't eat a roach (either kind) if it tasted like chocolate covered caramel from the world's finest chocolatier. I might, however, write a book called "Like Roaches for Chocolate."

khanjar · 08-09-2008, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moon

I would try it, but are they healthy?

I know grasshoppers taste a bit like fish. I think quite a lot of people would actually like the taste.
I still had problems with the idea of eating the intestines too, though. I know what they look like... thank you teacher who put them on my table...

Er, I think from what I have read, they are not healthy, as they carry many diseases including salmonella and various other nasties. However, in Thailand they eat them, and a western student on a gap year trip to the region ate cock roaches and maggots as a want to try the local food stuffs. Her description was eating a cock roach is like eating a prawn with the shell on, the shell being particularly tough to bite into.

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Salome Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA Posts: 1,809	Do they just taste like chocolate but still have slimy guts or is the texture like chocolate too?

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Salome Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA Posts: 1,809	I try to be pretty adventurous with food when I'm on the road. I have eaten grass hoppers, deep fried of course, when I was in Thailand. But of bugs, that's all I can remember (intentionally) eating. I have two aversions centipedes and roaches. Lord mercy, they both give me the willies. Maybe I should eat one, could be empowering. Deep fried of course.

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Moon V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 3,627	I would try it, but are they healthy? I know grasshoppers taste a bit like fish. I think quite a lot of people would actually like the taste. I still had problems with the idea of eating the intestines too, though. I know what they look like... thank you teacher who put them on my table...

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Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,573	We are totally buggy, you realize that, don't you? At least I assume we are talking about a leggy roach and not the remainder of one of those funny cigarettes. I wouldn't eat a roach (either kind) if it tasted like chocolate covered caramel from the world's finest chocolatier. I might, however, write a book called "Like Roaches for Chocolate."