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.

  • Masterofballs@wolfballs.com
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    2 years ago

    I personally dislike the taste of raw chicken.

    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.

    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.

    You say that you prefer to eat a chicken that has processed the insects already, but that is much more inefficient than eating the insect directly - a lot of the energy is wasted as it goes up the food chain.

    The chickens work as filters. It’s easier to get parasites from eating crickets than chickens eating the crickets. And waste is only waste if it was going to something more valuable. I consider myself pretty valuable. And the chickens help keep a yard pest free and help to fertilize it. So it’s not really wasteful if the chickens are serving more purpose. Your more broad point about being able to feed more people by using insects would have to be true though. Eliminating any source of food from any part of the food chain would decrease output.

    Bugs will also have full form vitamin A, D, B 12 and so on. So I don’t have anything against them. Especially in traditional forms like you included here.

    It’s like bug powder and highly processed bug burgers that I’m worried about. There is no long term data on consuming it.

    Personally, I always found it very strange that people have an aversion to eating insects. For me it is pure irrationality, and an example of a cultural trait that is not based on any logic whatsoever. To be fair though, I might be a bit on the extreme side of the naturalist spectrum, so I understand that my views will not resonate with the average person.

    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.

    I’m also into primal eating. Which would include eating raw meat, blood, seasonal fruit, honey, bone marrow. Just trying to emulate what our ice age ancestors ate. Most of human history was during a time where mega mammals were everywhere.

    I’m sure they ate certain insects when times got tough so i’m cool with it.

    • 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