Would you eat bugs?

[craigmason]

Australia's Aborigines have eaten bugs for centuries but now an insect breeder is encouraging everyone to try nibbling on creepy crawly cuisine.

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16140135

[spooky3]

We already do, but we just rename them them so the squeamish won't make a fuss!

[denlin]

No flaming chance.:gag:

[HeadingNorth]

Slimy, crawling things from out of the sea are a normal part of the British diet - cockles, mussels, prawns and so on.

 

There's no good reason why slimy, crawling things from out of the ground should not also be part of the British diet, except that they never have been so most people will be horrified at the thought. (Me included!)

[medusa]

There's very little between a woodlouse and a shrimp, in terms of anatomy, so why not?

[Thunzi]

I have done previously, wouldn't make them a stable part of my diet though, as I didn't really find the taste that great.

[denlin]

There's very little between a woodlouse and a shrimp, in terms of anatomy, so why not?

 

Slimy, crawling things from out of the sea are a normal part of the British diet - cockles, mussels, prawns and so on.

 

Don't partularly relish the thought of them either apart from prawns

[donut 747]

no.you have more chance of seeing the queens bum then me eating bugs

[spooky3]

Sometimes carmine is labelled as E120.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal#Uses

 

 

There's loads of things like this. You probably eat seaweed almost everyday!

[NorthernStar]

As long as I don't know I'm not too bothered, however after seeing

I'll be taking a great deal of interest in the ingredients labelling just incase they start putting E5H17 in our food without informing us.