Would you dare?
By Reine25
@Lucky15 (37346)
Philippines
May 6, 2016 11:50pm CST
They can be scary and bizarre to some, but lo and behold, they are nutritious.
We got a lot of crickets here. They can either be sauteed in tomatoes, garlic and shallots or that famous Filipino recipe, adobo--soy, garlic, vinegar.
They don't taste bad to be honest, they have this taste.like a.peanut.butter.
Exotic or bizarre these can be, they are nutritious too.
Cricket has a nutritional value (per 100 grams)12.9 g of proteins, 5.5 g of fats, 5.1 of carbohydrates, 75.8 mg of calcium, 7.9 mg of iron. *research says*
So, would you dare?
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41 responses
@LadyDuck (460370)
• Switzerland
8 May 16
@DaddyEvil We eat shrimps, mussels, clams, so why not insects?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
8 May 16
That was a much more polite way of saying, "EWWW! GROSS!", than I used, @LadyDuck ! LOL!
Your way didn't quite convey the urgency of saying, "No thank you!", that mine did, though! (giggling my tush off!)
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
7 May 16
i love those, including those beetles (abal-abal in our vernacular language) and the field frogs that taste like chicken.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
7 May 16
@Lucky15 sinigang nga tukak. (stewed field frogs)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
7 May 16
i apologize, but jest the thought'f such's makin' me a tad green 'round the gills. i'm sure they're chocked full'f good schtuff, jest's the grasshoppers that tend to plague me're. i live that to the other wild creatures though, who seem to 'ppreciate such. i may ne'er eat peanut butter 'gain!
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
8 May 16
LMFAO! Your comment wasn't quite as funny as mine, @crazyhorseladycx , but it supplied the same sentiment!
I was not big on peanut butter, anyway, so @Lucky15 's description didn't bother me that way. Hopefully, next time I pop a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup into my mouth I won't get a visual of that picture!
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
10 May 16
@crazyhorseladycx Well, I have a peanut butter cup sitting here beside my pc... Guess what I was gonna eat until someone called me back to this thread! 
I'M KIDDING! 
Yes, I know that chocolate is toxic to dogs as well as horses, Crazy.
I'M KIDDING!
Yes, I know that chocolate is toxic to dogs as well as horses, Crazy.2 people like this
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
9 May 16
@DaddyEvil 
i'd the need to consume quite a bit'f peanut butter when i was tryin' to get the body to absorb proteins. that'n naners make a purty tasty ('n fattenin', to the delight'f my doc's, lol) muffin. 'course, i'd put dark chocolate chips'n 'em...'xcept fer the pups. ya know, coz chocolate's toxic to our lil canine friends?
yepperz, i dunno if'n i could e'en partake'n a reese's cup...
i'd the need to consume quite a bit'f peanut butter when i was tryin' to get the body to absorb proteins. that'n naners make a purty tasty ('n fattenin', to the delight'f my doc's, lol) muffin. 'course, i'd put dark chocolate chips'n 'em...'xcept fer the pups. ya know, coz chocolate's toxic to our lil canine friends?
yepperz, i dunno if'n i could e'en partake'n a reese's cup...1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
8 May 16
@just4him Well, good for you for being a dare devil! I'm normally not!
I know there are foods I will eat and enjoy while my daughter gets sick smelling it! LOL!
Pretty won't even eat boiled eggs! She claims I am eating farts when I eat them! Of course, when she says that, I act like I am straining to "blow her a kiss"! She screams and runs for her room!
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@just4him (308626)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
9 May 16
@DaddyEvil You're incorrigible!
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@just4him (308626)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
8 May 16
@DaddyEvil I probably will too, but I'm a bit of a dare devil, I just might try them, especially since they're on God's diet plan.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
8 May 16
@Daljinder 
That is far from your usual polite, "No, thank you, anyway!"
What happened there, DJ? Cricket got your tongue? (laughing and teasing you!) You were about as polite as I was in my original post to @Lucky15 ! You just hide behind being vegetarian!
That is far from your usual polite, "No, thank you, anyway!"
What happened there, DJ? Cricket got your tongue? (laughing and teasing you!) You were about as polite as I was in my original post to @Lucky15 ! You just hide behind being vegetarian!4 people like this
@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
8 May 16
@DaddyEvil I have been talking with her for sometime. So, she is used to me by now.
When I get to know a person well and feel like they got used to my way of talking, I drop the formalities.
I dropped the formalities with you too when I started addressing you as DE. Otherwise I would tag you properly to address you.
I am still polite though 
Well I try to be. 
When I get to know a person well and feel like they got used to my way of talking, I drop the formalities.
I dropped the formalities with you too when I started addressing you as DE. Otherwise I would tag you properly to address you.
I am still polite though
Well I try to be.
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I think they look like cockroaches and their legs are spiny...urggg
@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
7 May 16
Nope... though I heard it is nutritious.
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@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
7 May 16
@Lucky15 I will still skip he-he.
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@ashutoshpandey (93)
• Allahabad, India
8 May 16
Would you dare to eat humans too for proteins,fats and other nutritious????
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@ashutoshpandey (93)
• Allahabad, India
8 May 16
@Lucky15 Then why to eat insects? Eat vegs
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
7 May 16
Why not? I'm willing to take the challenge, if i had eaten the " salagubang" or june beetle i could pronably take on this, i guess meat is more harmful and harder to digest lol!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
7 May 16
@Lucky15 yeah, at first i was reluctant to try but really it was not bad, in fact i loved it
, somebody gave it to me all the way from the province of Nueva Ecija
, somebody gave it to me all the way from the province of Nueva Ecija1 person likes this
@Lucky15 (37346)
• Philippines
7 May 16
@louievill some find me...weirdo because of eating those
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
7 May 16
Tastes like peanut butter? Hmmmmm! I thought they taste like shrimps. Hihihihi Haven't tasted one though.
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
7 May 16
@Lucky15 Hihihi maybe some other time. Hahahaha
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@sabashekh (1218)
• Bhopal, India
7 May 16
@Lucky15 thankyou thankyou .. I m obliged .. Lol ;)
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@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
12 May 16
Oh, no! Absolutely not. Isn't it funny how different cultures have such different food tastes? I know from my B,A in Anthropology that a lot of people eat termites and consider them a delicacy. Fried crickets seem the same kind of thing.
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@slayer08 (2377)
• Philippines
8 May 16
I dont thin so.. I'm scared of insects.. I probably will but only if there's nothing left to eat or if someone will pay me to do it.. that looks more like something that came form Fear Factor.. My sister tried eating scorpions in THailand when she visited.. and grasshoppers..
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
8 May 16
And would you dare eat garden snails? When I was doing census work, I came to a house where they were cooking garden snails for lunch.
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