bugs

[rawrock2]

I may be on the wrong forum but I'll ask anyway.  How many people here eat bugs?  (larvae, roaches, maggots, crickets, worms, etc. raw & live of course)  I would like to start and I'm been reading a forum concerning it but I thought I should see the responses here before I search elsewhere.  Maybe start off with mealworms, ants, and/or roaches.  (raise my own in a container farm or something like that)

[TylerDurden]

I tried eating (dead) maggots before and they tasted foul. I've also eaten the eggs(pre-maggot-stage) the flies laid - didn't taste good, either, though that mght be psychosomatic due to horror of insects. Pre-rawpalaeo, I would accidentally swallow live insects while bicycling didn't taste of anything, AFAIK.

You'll find a lot of info on the net re eating bugs under various ethnic cuisines. The aborigines ate the witchetty grub for its fat, the africans and  chinese eat grasshoppers(cooked?) etc. etc.

[rawrock2]

I tried eating (dead) maggots before and they tasted foul. I've also eaten the eggs(pre-maggot-stage) the flies laid

Guess you can eat meat even when flies are on it and laying their eggs.  I remember the guy in the movie "Into The Wild" saying that once the creepy-crawlers (flies, insects, etc.) have gotten to the meat that it's 'too late'.  Boy was he wrong. 

[Raw Kyle]

Ya that's a shame that boy died for that stupid reason.

But anyway, I was thinking of starting the bug eating with cooked bugs and then getting comfortable with that before trying raw.