Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Are they served raw? I figured some manner of actual cheficizing would actually happen at a nice restaurant.

 

At a minimum they'd be garnished ... after all, presentation is everything!

(Truth be told ... I have no idea. I prefer my insects to have been processed in the wild. Once you run 'em through, say, a mountain trout, they're delightful. And they pair wonderfully with a Meursault (or if it's a special occasion a Montrachet)!)

 

You all scoff (and I fully get why here) but fried grasshoppers are not bad. I haven't rolled beetle or grub worm, but honestly if I had a bowl of grasshoppers at a bar with a pint instead of peanuts, I wouldn't complain.

 

I've never tried 'em, but it wouldn't surprise me. And it's not like I don't like an arthropod every now and then ... just a couple of weeks ago I partook of some delightful Gulf crawfish (sucked the heads, too).

 

Edible insects, a valuable protein source from ancient to modern times

Eating Insects: The History of the Human Hunger for Bugs

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-eating-bugs-america

For Most People, Eating Bugs Is Only Natural

 

Hard pass, dawg.

 

Not living in the South, I've never had the pleasure, but it actually looks really good.

 

When I was a kid, I used to eat bugs for money from the neighborhood kids.

 

Like Maria Tomei winning an Oscar, this tome came out of the woodwork to win the James Beard cookbook of the year award (deeply disappointing a family member who had another book in the running).

 

Dried mealyworms smell and taste like peanut butter.

But I've always said ever since the Mid-Aughts that it's stupid to burn your food. There was a spate where farmers around here forwent all the other normal rotation crops (wheat, milo, fallow, etc.) and everything was planted corn and it all went to the refineries. Tortilla prices in Latin America spiked, bada-boom bada-bing, we ended up with Justin Bieber.

 

Since we're on the topic of bugs, you know when it's just not your day? When you survive the bus plunging 165 feet into a ravine, only to land in a hive of killer bees.
This is some Final Destination shit right here.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/killer-bees-sting-6-people-death-nicaragua-after-bus-plunges-ravine

 

OK

Kansas farmers abandon wheat fields after extreme drought