So what do you guys think of this?
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Be seeing restaurants with gourmet dishes made mainly from worms⊠Anytime soon. Sponsored by the media of course.
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Personally, my opinion - this is disgusting (all cultures, of course, have their own taste preferences, but this does not exist in Russia). Recently I saw an informational video about this, where the announcer explained the advantages of such a âdishâ.
Although I will not be surprised that in twenty years this will become an everyday food. Media technologies will do their job if need be. Unfortunately, if someone needs it (this may be due to both material and social factors), then the whole PR machine and the popularization of this âdelicacyâ will be launched.
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It shows the contempt your masters have for you.
Note that it requires complex beliefs in things one cannot personally observe, plus adoption of a specific value system, in order to make this seem like a great choice.
No-one just looks at these and recognises âfood.â
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It makes me sense that there has always been a culture for this, almost fitting to those reptilians conspiracy theories lol humm what shall we have for lunchâŠ
Worms with fries and salad son.
Oh thank you mama! My favourite food!!
But without wanting to feed any conspiracies⊠Who would accept to eat food made with worms? @_@
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They love us! What you going on about⊠Look at all the freedom they give us.
We canât even be sexual anymore⊠You gotta love them. They are so good to us.
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And Iâm saying this but Iâve eaten a locust alive. Iâve eaten Mill worms, pigs brains, the most crazy stuff⊠But as dares, as challenges to myself, for the experience, the knowledge.
(itâs all awful really)
Now I come from Portugal and apparently the diet around the Mediterranean is one of the best diets in the world⊠You think Iâm ever going to swap my food for any other? Unless a world war comes and I have no choice, not gonna happen!
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In my unpopular opinion, it might not be that bad actually.
They serve snails in France and consider them a delicacy. And I donât see how worms are different from snails - both look disgusting. And a nice cook can make worms taste great just as they can make snails taste great.
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One is a traditional food, enjoyed by some, scorned by others, just like anything else.
The other is a novel food which requires wholesale adoption of a worldview and items of faith, in order to be palateable, and is being promoted as a moral necessity - just like the replacement of butter and lard with hydregenised vegetable fat, and that turned out to be an absolute fucking disaster which crippled, maimed, and killed untold numbers of people. 
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I beg to differ. Snails donât smell or taste of anything much and the dish tastes mostly of butter and garlic. The texture is chewy like shellfish.
Mealworms are covered in keratin thatâs like eating fingernails, and smell pungent and atrocious. No amount of verboten butter is going to cover that.
This is bullshit.
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It goes with what I was saying⊠Eating strange things for the fun of it, for the experiment is one thing, make a whole diet system based on these strange things,thats another level. I donât know whatâs going to happen, it might all go down the drain, perhaps no one will ever be convinced to put this in their food habits (I hope) but they will be trying to convince everyone how good and how healthy it is, all the thousand and one benefits that will have to put this in your diet regularly.
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Ideology and a moral war against all the norms of the past pushed billions of tons of hydrogenated vegetable fats down peopleâs throats, destroying their cardio-vascular systems and causing runaway inflammatory responses, as well as replacing good fats in the brain itself. I wonât go beyond this, because politics, but the parallels are pretty obvious.
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Iâm not a fan of religion, so I donât believe in eating worms. 
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I both agree and disagree with you here.
People from Asian and African countries eat similar stuff and some of them live longer than people of western descent. I cannot recall the exact country, but some people eat potatoes with sauce from dirt and feel nice.
It might cause some troubles in terms of physical adaptation to such food, yes, but I still donât see how it is more dangerous than all these tourists tasting dishes in Thailand or China, for example.
Besides, a human is a creature that can adapt to anything.
My point is that in 100 years people will say the same about worms 
No, it is not. You are talking about your personal taste preferences. I have never had worms and I cannot say if they are shit or not until I try. But I dislike snails. As well as I dislike oatmeal that is very popular in many countries and eaten by lots of people for breakfast, although originally it was horse food. Yet I do not call it âbullshitâ because they have a different opinion. On top of that, if no one could force me to eat oatmeal in my 30 years, no one can force you to eat worms, as I believe you are a grown-up person who can decide what to have for dinner by yourself.
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Yes. Because someone needs it for some of their purposes. Unfortunately, our materialized society does not pay much attention to the âusefulnessâ of the product. The main thing is that it brings profit at minimal costs. A classic example is the hydrogenated fats that Lady Eva brought up.
First, the topic of worms will be promoted by âauthoritativeâ scientists, then they will write scientific opuses about their benefits, then famous personalities will advertise it as a super popular product. Well, further it will appear more and more often in news, advertisements, films, etc.
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People never adapted to hydrogenated veg fat, they just got sick, usually very low-level stuff which acted as a gateway to other illnesses, but many died.
Novel food + a moral ideology that forces it into the place of something humans have adapted to, has historically been very bad news.
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Something to note about indigenous bug consumption (used as the model here) is that the food is usually fresh, gathered by the same person and eaten within a small window of time, so any fats in the food are not rancid or oxidised.
The problem of rancid fats is something people are only beginning to wake up to. Similarly, the discovery that starches change after being cooked is a new thing, so I donât think weâre at a place of having enough comprehensive knowledge to be able to start fucking around like this.
Snails are not universally consumed in regions theyâre commonly found in, even among the poor, so that seems to be more of an outlier, like Japanâs custom of eating fugu fish:
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See i was raised eating raw sea food⊠If I say that to anyone from a western civilized country they might think Iâm crazyâŠbut it was nice fresh sea food that I caught and ate there and then.
Not inside a jar, processed with chemicals so it lasts months. I wouldnât eat that not even paid.
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I wasnât raised with a lot of seafood, thereâs no sea near my home, but when I was in Japan I once ate really freshly made tuna sushi, and that was so incredibly good, canât be compared to what you get here.
I believe regional is the key.
I donât believe it is better to eat dried insects than it is to eat some pork that was raised and killed by a small local farmer in my own village.
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