The Typhoon restaurant (http://typhoon.biz/) serves insects. They have a whole insect section on their menu. I tried the Taiwanese crickets once. They were quite tasty: crunchy and nutty. I highly recommend giving it a whirl if you're in Santa Monica.

Tarantulas aren't insects.

Right, my mistake. In my native language "insect" is common name for any bug.

"Some arthropods are delicious" then.

But that's too wide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacostraca (shrimp, crabs, lobster!)

"Insect" is acceptable for those willing to be a little loose for the sake of this sort of discussion. "Bug" is better.

Congratulations, you've contested the point by completely ignoring it.

So what? He provides interesting material. Why the need to attack?

The thread started with:

> You would never know the difference between say, a sausage patty, a veggie sausage patty, and an insect sausage patty.

The argument is not "insects can't be tasty", the argument is "insects may indeed be tasty but people can taste that it's not beef/chicken". Given that people can tell the difference between, say, grass fed and grain fed beef, the claim that an insect or vegetable-based alternative will be indistinguishable needs more evidence than "nuh uh!"

I'm pointing some insects can be indistinguishable from other kind of meat, if not sausages. Tarantulas taste like shrimp or lobster, ants with flour taste like pork because it's fried in fat.

And I've eaten those if that's enough evidence, it's available in my country.

Seriously, that response of yours was uncalled for. This is not a pissing contest.