Little different to prawns, langoustine tails, or even snails.These are a white bodied insect that Kunyi (Grandmother) fries in a wok with oil and fresh garlic.
What puts me off is that everything (I think) of animal origin that I eat has been cleaned i.e. has had its gut removed.
After I put some out for the birds, I got curious and looked it up. The adult is actually a black beetle called (*drummroll*) the mealworm beetle.What do the adult flies ( I assume) look like, and how will they keep them on the farm?
Little different to prawns, langoustine tails, or even snails.
They are very high in protein and in the future we will have little choice other than to eat them (if we are to eat less red meat) however, I think they will be sold more as a mince or a powder so as not to offend sensibilities.
Or snails or prawns or anything very small really, Mosaix. (Monty Python's Crunchy frog chocolates?)
Never had whitebait?
Expect Witchetty Grub "scampi" some time soon.
If the world wants to rely on animal protein in its diet, then we are probably going to have to get to like insects in all their [in]finite varieties.
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