Now Aldi is weighing up whether to stock products by Yum Bug, which make the insect recipe kits.

Yum Bug founders Aaron Thomas and Leo Taylor, both 28, are competing against other start-ups to get their product on the supermarket’s shelves.

The duo were picked from hundreds of applicant’s to appear on Channel 4’s ‘Aldi’s Next Big Thing’ tomorrow.

  • SalamanderA
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    2 years ago

    If you eat raw chicken you want to eat it fresh and with the skin. Not month old chicken you get at the grocery. I personally like the taste. Not as much as raw beef but it’s ok. I eat raw beef raw beef liver, raw milk, raw eggs pretty often.

    In this I am probably being as irrational as those who I claim to be irrational about insects! The reason why I don’t like raw chicken is probably because I associate it with the taste of a poorly cooked chicken. So, biting into a chicken that I think will taste one way and then suddenly feeling a cold raw taste - combined with someone telling me that I can get sick.

    I do feel the same with salmon though - and yet I like salmon sashimi a lot - so I would probably like raw chicken too if I tried it in the right context.

    Insects often have a pretty intensely awful taste. LIke really bitter. I’ve bitten into apples right off a tree that turned out to be filled with bugs and the taste was like hell on my tongue. Like someone ate cheese tacos with to much hot sauce and shat in my mouth.

    The acid in that scenario might have come from the apple itself, as apples will produce acid as a stress response when infested.

    The chickens work as filters. It’s easier to get parasites from eating crickets than chickens eating the crickets…

    With ‘waste’ I meant the waste products (poop) and the metabolic energy used by the chicken. Generally the food chain is about 10% efficient - so to get 1 kg of usable consumable macros from chicken, they have to eat about 10 kg worth of usable macros from crickets. It is more complicated than just ‘efficiency’, as nutrients also get transformed, but from cricket - > chicken I don’t think the transformations are worth it. Unlike plant -> animal, where the animal concentrates protein.

    I am not so sure about the parasites. I think it would be difficult for a parasite to infect crickets and humans. Chicken <-> human transmission seems more likely.

    I think the same way but also with raw meat. I just think the fear isn’t always irrational. I think it’s evolved. Cock roaches gross me out. And for good reason they are filled with parasites. Maybe that is a evolved defense.

    Yeah, exactly, I am guilty of this