Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour

Re:Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour by sk5t on Sunday August 18, 2013 @10:22PM (#6235255)

Have you considered the possibility that you might be unusually (relative to the rest of the globe) quite squeamish? What makes cricket flour any worse than raw fish or a nice, runny, sunny-side-up egg? Or more directly: do you eat commercially-prepared peanut butter?

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Re:Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour by drivingmenuts on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:46PM (#6244861)

Squeamish? I'm pretty sure I'm not.

I grew up on a cattle ranch and regularly poked cow stomachs with a stick behind our local cattle processor. As a kid, I had to go out at 4am and 30 degrees F with my grandfather to deliver a breech birth calf (didn't end well).

I'm not afraid of most bugs (spiders a bit, tarantulas a lot, crickets not even a smidge) but I've never had any desire to eat them.

It's cultural: Bugs are not people food.

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Re:Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour by nhangen on Sunday August 18, 2013 @11:49PM (#6235502)

You can't be serious? Besides the obvious physical differences, there are biological differences as well. An egg is not a slow roasted chicken.

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