You know that when you send your kids off to college, they’ll get the chance to broaden their horizons in many ways.
Self-discipline? Check.
Social experiences? Check.
New ideas and philosophies? Check.
Sports and recreation? Check.
Gastronomic adventures? Check, check!
Especially if they’re attending the University of Connecticut, where one innovative purple food truck is serving up everything from Asian tacos to …
crickets!
photo, U Conn’s DailyCampus.com
The aptly named “Food for Thought” truck is serving “organic, GMO free, and earth-friendly” roasted crickets as a topping for their popular Asian Tacos—or for an adventurous few, as a crunchy snack. After a week of offering free samples to anyone willing to try them, UConn’s Dining Services reports that they’re selling two to three containers of the crispy critters a day.
The crickets are sourced from Next Millennium Farms, who strive to lead a new “protein revolution” and “raise” an estimated 30 million crickets at any given time. Now that’s a lot of chirping!
While I appreciate the need to find more sustainable protein sources for our planet, some how I am totally turned off by the idea of eating crickets or any other bugs for that matter. Can we just stick with lentils and beans?
Crimey.
I like my crickets singing in cages like the orientals do- they are for good luck
I may have seen one last week. My youngest grandson was stomping and startled something out of somewhere, and as it was running a four-minute mile right at me, I squished it. There wasn’t enought left to determine what exactly it was…
did it have a totally white underside? then it’s a cicada – practically no other bug/insect in our parts have that coloring
Nope, it was black all over! And fast, very fast…
I’ve always thought that I could eat bugs as long as they’re dead and ground up, like in a flour of some kind. But I watched a special a long time ago that showed a people (I think in the Amazon?) pulling live, wiggly wormy things out of a log and eating them while the legs wiggled out of their mouths. Isn’t it amazing how our cultures shape our thinkings…
Reminds me of when my cats catch a cicada and then eat it!
Yes! People are among the few who like their food completely non-wiggly!
As much as I appreciate that humanity needs to get off the animal food train, I find that using insects could raise problems similar to what we are already experiencing which is “How They Are Prepared” and “What Other Ingredients” are being added to the preparation. For example, if the insects are being roasted in some type of oil, we already know that oil that has been heated becomes rancid, changes its chemical signature, and becomes a toxin when ingested, since the body’s digestive system is not created to turn rancid oils efficiently and safely into nutrients the body can use. So, insects = YES, but rancid oil still = NO. But if we find safe methods of preparation for ingestion, then a big YES.
milka – (mantra: The-Best-Is-Yet-To-Come)