Farm-bred insects - just not the same!

Insects? Ewww! That's the standard answer you'd probably get from a western person. Western educated Asians will probably give you the same response. Then you actually go to Asia and find that insects are really good food! Sometimes, they are considered a delicacy to be savoured, thus paying a high price for bugs that run all over your dirty home. Haha

Well, in today's world that is saturated with gourmet food, Thailand has decided that they will fill the hunger for exotic insects. So instead of farmers catching the insects in the wild and cooking them (thus the supply is entirely subject to weather conditions and availability of insects scuttling around), they've decided to create insect farms. Now, ants are cultivated for food. Breeding them must have become a science.

Now the western person who is daring enough to try insects does not have to worry about hygiene. Farm-bred insects are clean, aren't they?

True, but as with farm-bred poultry, the meat just does not taste the same as those caught in the wild. We Asians like free-range chicken, skinny, small in size, tough meat, but oh so tasty! Sooner or later, I think those who have tasted wild insects will not enjoy the farm-bred ones. They just aren't as tasty. Ditto for frogs. The wild ones have sweeter meat.

Having said all that, fried spiders anyone?

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