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As someone who once owned geckos and fed them with crickets, the memory of the smell alone is enough to deter me from ever eating any cricket-based product.
by duncancarroll 11y ago
As someone who once owned geckos and fed them with crickets, the memory of the smell alone is enough to deter me from ever eating any cricket-based product.
- felipemora 11y agoSeafood can be quite stinky also and yet lots of people have no problem eating it.
- jonnathanson 11y agoExactly. And honestly, if you've ever eaten a whole, unpeeled shrimp or prawn before, it's not too much of a stretch going from there to something like crickets. They are both arthropods. They are distantly related. They look kinda-sorta-not-too-dissimilar in their natural state. The key difference is size. There's a lot more meat in your typical prawn, and this allows you to peal and prep it in a way that distances you from its natural appearance. There's less meat inside the cricket, so you pretty much have to eat it whole, shell and all. The resulting texture is less meaty and more mealy/crunchy. In my experience eating crickets, I've always been aware that I'm eating crickets. There is no fantastic way to mitigate the texture and the mouthfeel, shy of grinding up the crickets into a powder and reconstituting them in some other form. (The texture doesn't bug me per se, but it sure does seem to bug a lot of people who've tried crickets. No pun intended.)
- duncancarroll 11y agoIt's possible some crickets are less stinky than others. But man, that smell... Shrimp, etc don't stink like that.
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- duncancarroll 11y agoSure, but I honestly can't think of a seafood product, raw or cooked that smells quite as bad as crickets do. Even when cooked they somehow retain the smell (I accidentally tried a "grashopper" taco once--turned out it was actually crickets--one bite was too much.)
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