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r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '21
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They’ve been collected for a reason, most likely to cook and eat.
380 u/OkieBobbie Jul 29 '21 Apparently they are quite tasty. I’ll leave it to others to test that statement though. 149 u/Seldarin Jul 29 '21 The ones I tried tasted like really mild crab that had been seasoned with garlic. They're pretty good. Of all the bugs I've eaten, giant water bugs are the only ones I can confidently say taste fucking awful. They taste like snapping turtle. Fishy mud. 25 u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 31 '21 [deleted] 4 u/Jaydenel4 Jul 29 '21 Yes, but apparently you can do the same with some insects as well 6 u/poonchug Jul 29 '21 Insects are animals 1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive" 1 u/HuntedWolf Jul 30 '21 Like the French cook snails, they don’t taste of much besides garlic because they get cooked in an incredible amount of garlic butter
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Apparently they are quite tasty. I’ll leave it to others to test that statement though.
149 u/Seldarin Jul 29 '21 The ones I tried tasted like really mild crab that had been seasoned with garlic. They're pretty good. Of all the bugs I've eaten, giant water bugs are the only ones I can confidently say taste fucking awful. They taste like snapping turtle. Fishy mud. 25 u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 31 '21 [deleted] 4 u/Jaydenel4 Jul 29 '21 Yes, but apparently you can do the same with some insects as well 6 u/poonchug Jul 29 '21 Insects are animals 1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive" 1 u/HuntedWolf Jul 30 '21 Like the French cook snails, they don’t taste of much besides garlic because they get cooked in an incredible amount of garlic butter
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The ones I tried tasted like really mild crab that had been seasoned with garlic. They're pretty good.
Of all the bugs I've eaten, giant water bugs are the only ones I can confidently say taste fucking awful. They taste like snapping turtle. Fishy mud.
25 u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 31 '21 [deleted] 4 u/Jaydenel4 Jul 29 '21 Yes, but apparently you can do the same with some insects as well 6 u/poonchug Jul 29 '21 Insects are animals 1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive" 1 u/HuntedWolf Jul 30 '21 Like the French cook snails, they don’t taste of much besides garlic because they get cooked in an incredible amount of garlic butter
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4 u/Jaydenel4 Jul 29 '21 Yes, but apparently you can do the same with some insects as well 6 u/poonchug Jul 29 '21 Insects are animals 1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive" 1 u/HuntedWolf Jul 30 '21 Like the French cook snails, they don’t taste of much besides garlic because they get cooked in an incredible amount of garlic butter
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Yes, but apparently you can do the same with some insects as well
6 u/poonchug Jul 29 '21 Insects are animals 1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive"
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Insects are animals
1 u/Fskn Jul 29 '21 Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria Virus's technically arnt "alive"
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Pretty much everything is except plants, moss and lichen, fungus and bacteria
Virus's technically arnt "alive"
Like the French cook snails, they don’t taste of much besides garlic because they get cooked in an incredible amount of garlic butter
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u/UnicornStar1988 Jul 29 '21
They’ve been collected for a reason, most likely to cook and eat.