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On Fri, 6 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 03:29:11 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:
>
>> I haven't checked with my friend Google/et.al. but I seem to recall that
>> there is a problem that the chitin (sp?) of those insects....the
>> 'shell'...can have some potent allergen reactions for some people.
>>
>> I've heard that this can be a problem with 'cricket flour', I believe.
>
> Probably for some people. Personally I'm a little weird and I eat the
> tails on fried shrimp and shrimp cocktails. Maybe I have some sort of
> dietary deficiency but I'm fairly sure I could handle cricket flour.
>
> I don't know if it's still around but Reese was a company that sold cans
> of weird stuff including fried grasshoppers, whale, and chocolate covered
> bees. The grasshoppers weren't bad.
>
> Trivia: Many of the Indian tribes ate grasshoppers. They approached it
> with great efficiency and set fire to the fields. The fire got rid of the
> legs and wings, producing roasted hoppers.

Interesting! Nothing new under the sun! But somewhere there is a problem 
or else there would be abundant grasshopper protein companies.

I mean, there are companies making ridiculously expensive meat 
substitutes, but they have all neglected the grasshopper route.

Or maybe it is just culture, and they foresee it as being very difficult 
to persude the consumer to try it.

> I don't know if they were as prevalent before wheat farming but the
> Carolina hoppers are big.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissosteira_carolina
>
> I had to roll the windows up on the pickup while driving past wheat fields
> after the harvest because the cab was filling up with the damn things.
>
>