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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Nutrition, Products & Supplements Info => Topic started by: Deicide on April 22, 2009, 11:44:26 AM
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if im going to eat some insects the least i want is a sweet candy taste in my mouth.
these things dont mix.
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If they are non-toxic, dead and taste good, why not?
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If they are non-toxic, dead and taste good, why not?
Cultural conditioning...
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Cultural conditioning...
Badabing. Debussey would really not have much issues with it, except for stingy scorpions perhaps.
But if you take those larve thingys, and fry them crispy, and put on spice, it would probably taste pretty good.
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Badabing. Debussey would really not have much issues with it, except for stingy scorpions perhaps.
But if you take those larve thingys, and fry them crispy, and put on spice, it would probably taste pretty good.
When I was in South East Asia I tried lots of things: fried spiders, scorpions, beetles, larvae, etc...still I wouldn't really want to eat it all the time...
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When I was in South East Asia I tried lots of things: fried spiders, scorpions, beetles, larvae, etc...still I wouldn't really want to eat it all the time...
What did fried spiders and scorpions taste like? Do you have a brutal lack of arachnophobia 8)
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What did fried spiders and scorpions taste like? Do you have a brutal lack of arachnophobia 8)
They dump so much salt on them that it doesn't matter; scorpion tastes much like many crustaceans do...
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They dump so much salt on them that it doesn't matter; scorpion tastes much like many crustaceans do...
Did you eat them whole? Was it uncomfortable to chew?
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Did you eat them whole? Was it uncomfortable to chew?
Just force yourself; did it for the experience, not for the taste.
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Just force yourself; did it for the experience, not for the taste.
Debussey = interested in your experience.
Debussey will definitely try eating spiders and scorpions once.
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Debussey = interested in your experience.
Debussey will definitely try eating spiders and scorpions once.
For me just a one time thing too.
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Eating bugs..are you insane!!!! :-X
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Eating bugs..are you insane!!!! :-X
Better source of protein than beef or chicken!
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Better source of protein than beef or chicken!
Ok you enjoy you bugs, I will enjoy my tater tots lawlz :D.
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I like food with an endo-skeleton, not an exo, thank you. Call me uncivilized, if you must. :-[
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I like food with an endo-skeleton, not an exo, thank you. Call me uncivilized, if you must. :-[
Entomophagy has existed since the our ancestors were still swinging in trees and was important for the majority of the existence of homo sapiens...it's part of us.
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I like food with an endo-skeleton, not an exo, thank you. Call me uncivilized, if you must. :-[
Well, do you eat crab or lobster?
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Entomophagy has existed since the our ancestors were still swinging in trees and was important for the majority of the existence of homo sapiens...it's part of us.
I'll let it be a part of me when my plane crashes in the Andes...No, Wait. ;D
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I'll let it be a part of me when my plane crashes in the Andes...No, Wait. ;D
Insects generally have a higher food conversion efficiency than more traditional meats. While many insects can have an energy input to protein output ratio of around 4:1, raised livestock has a ratio closer to 54:1 [6]. This is partially due to the fact that feed first needs to be grown for most traditional livestock. Additionally endothermic (warm-blooded) vertebrates need to use a significantly greater amount of energy just to stay warm whereas ectothermic (cold blooded) plants or insects do not. [7] An index which can be used as a measure is the Efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance: for example, only 10% of ingested food is converted to body substance by beef cattle, versus 19-31% by silkworms and 44% by German cockroaches. Studies concerning the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) provide further evidence for the efficiency of insects as a food source. When reared at 30°C or more and fed a diet of equal quality to the diet used to rear conventional livestock, crickets showed a food conversion twice as efficient as pigs and broiler chicks, four times that of sheep, and six times higher than steers (oxen) when losses in carcass trim and dressing percentage are counted.[1]
Mexican chapulinesInsects reproduce at a faster rate than beef animals. A female cricket can lay from 1,200 to 1,500 eggs in 3 to 4 weeks, while for beef the ratio is four breeding animals for each market animal produced. This gives house crickets a true food conversion efficiency almost 20 times higher than beef.[1] For this reason and because of the essential amino acids content of insects, some people propose the development of entomophagy to provide a major source of protein in human nutrition. Protein production for human consumption would be more effective and consume fewer resources than vertebrate protein. This makes insect meat more ecological than vertebrate meat.
Insects have many attractive qualities for food production besides their high energy efficiency. For example the spatial usage and water requirements are only a fraction of that required to produce the same mass of food with cattle farming. Production of 150g of grasshopper meat requires only very little water, while cattle requires 3290 liters to produce the same amount of beef.
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I think it's the idea of eating the whole animal that's a turn-off. When you eat a steak or chicken breast it looks nothing like the animal it comes from. Ignorance is bliss I guess. So if you were to, say, grind crickets into a high protein powder that could be used in baking, I think very few would have a problem with it.
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Next Falcon diet
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When I was in South East Asia I tried lots of things: fried spiders, scorpions, beetles, larvae, etc...still I wouldn't really want to eat it all the time...
brutal 3rd world diet
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your name and your humor are both played out...please leave it to the better posters on this site
I take it you don't like insects?
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I've eaten alot of Live insects and other creatures.
crab
small lizard (gecko)
huntsman spider
cockroach
freshly speared fish
dragonfly
cicada
moth
christmas beetle
lots of march flies
ants
random green flying bug (don't know what its called)
all eaten live, except for maybe the fish - I think it died before we got it off the spear.
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"Clownbaby's" comment regarding this board's posters and Debussey's reply to his comment: deleted for flamming.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
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I've eaten alot of Live insects and other creatures.
crab
small lizard (gecko)
huntsman spider
cockroach
freshly speared fish
dragonfly
cicada
moth
christmas beetle
lots of march flies
ants
random green flying bug (don't know what its called)
all eaten live, except for maybe the fish - I think it died before we got it off the spear.
Interesting. What does cockroach taste like? They say it tastes like lobster meat... :-X Oh, and I've eaten ants. They taste really acrid and bitter. They say it is because they are rich in formic acid.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
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Interesting. What does cockroach taste like? They say it tastes like lobster meat... :-X Oh, and I've eaten ants. They taste really acrid and bitter. They say it is because they are rich in formic acid.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
I've never eaten lobster before, but if it tastes like that I won't be eating it. The cockroach taste wasn't pleasant and I couldn't really compare it to anything. Maybe it would taste better if cooked though.
The worst tasting was the spider, kindof musky iirc, and I would not eat another one, because the next day I had the absolute worst headache of my life, and stayed in bed all day.
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Call me a wimpy, weenie, sissy scared culturally conditioned little girly girl all you want!
I draw the line at knowingly eating an insect. F-ing gross! :-X
Tom Hank's brother tried to get me and a few others to eat chocolate covered crickets. It didn't happen!
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I think it's the idea of eating the whole animal that's a turn-off. When you eat a steak or chicken breast it looks nothing like the animal it comes from. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
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most of the guys here would eat pig shit if they though it was "anabolic".
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most of the guys here would eat pig shit if they though it was "anabolic".
Lol, this is a quote from Arnold:
"Back in those days, if you told me I would gain a pound of muscle by eating a pound of shit, I'd do it."
SUCKMYMUSCLE
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unless my life depended on it, no way in hell am i eating bugs
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unless my life depended on it, no way in hell am i eating bugs
x2. Not sure I'd do it if my life depended on it either. :-X
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yeah it would be rough, but peopel do amazing things sometimes. I wonder i i could be a canibal if i had to. Better than insects, lol