Add a few ghost peppers and no-one will notice the bugs.
I'm sure I'm not the only one disturbed by the advertisements for tree grubs in concourses.
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The problem is people try to get those not culturally acclimatized to eating bugs to try them while they look like what they were, what they should do is process the protein into what we are used to like anonymous burgers etc.Laughs uncontrollably in actual Italian pizza.
Back on topic a bit, insects have just a far better protein/costs ratio. The idea of eating grubs and larvae instead of a good steak makes me a bit sick, but even I am fully aware than the difference between a chunky, disgusting grasshopper and those delicious cocktail shrimps is mostly just a cultural one. If we want to keep being 10 billions+ people on this rock, we are going to eat the largest available source of proteins, there's hardly any getting around this. Who knows what will be socially acceptable to eat a thousand years from now. Just a few centuries ago, tomatoes were a decorative plant!
Tomatoes went from being thought of as being as poisonous as the rest of the Nightshade family* to tasty to mostly tasteless nowadays, did you know that the major flavour compounds in a tomato break down at a few degrees above the temperature tomatoes are stored and transported at.
*Yes I know potatoes are a member of the same family, don't eat any green bits on a potato plant as they will make you very sick.
Exactly this.
As for mostly tasteless tomatoes, if you never tried Datterini or Pachino, or a properly cooked sauce made from San Marzano or Roma, I feel sorry for you!
Whatever flavour compounds they lose a few degrees above transport temperature, all the ones that matter actually come up at many, many degrees above that.
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Exactly this.
As for mostly tasteless tomatoes, if you never tried Datterini or Pachino, or a properly cooked sauce made from San Marzano or Roma, I feel sorry for you!
Whatever flavour compounds they lose a few degrees above transport temperature, all the ones that matter actually come up at many, many degrees above that.
tomatoes are ones of those things where it really IS true that home grown tastes far better than bought