Insects + Rice

“Nanikore Chin Hyakkei” travels to Shizuoka prefecture and tries out some yellow jackets (Vespula flaviceps) mixed with rice:

The comedians who eat the gruesome looking dish are quite surprised by how good it tastes. Apparently the bugs taste very much like sakura shrimp.

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11 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - November 27, 2009 at 7:57 am

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helical

My brain tells me insects are extremely nutritious and are a virtually untapped food soruce for the mankind.

Then my gut tells my brain to go f*** itself and gives me free samples of what it would do if I ever consciously ingested any.
TofuUnion

It may look disturbing, but it’s just a food culture to eat insects or not. And some small sea creatures (such as sakura shrimp) eaten in Japan look bugs alike.

Before humans acquired live stock, I believe they had been eating insects anywhere in the world. Still nowadays in some areas in Africa or Asia people actually do eat insects. Also in Nagano Japan where people living far from sea or river, there is still a custom to eat baby bees.
Nova

Shit, I’m going to Shizuoka pref next year. I won’t eat that.
Chesu

Hey, you’re finally writing it as Hyakkei!
Ajapa

Before criticizing the custom of eating insects, have a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy

You ecologists and eco-conscious people should eat insects.

Insects generally have a higher food conversion efficiency than more traditional meats, measured as efficiency of conversion of ingested food, or ECI. While many insects can have an energy input to protein output ratio of around 4:1, raised livestock has a ratio closer to 54:1.

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Additionally endothermic (warm-blooded) vertebrates need to use a significantly greater amount of energy just to stay warm whereas ectothermic (cold blooded) plants or insects do not. An index which can be used as a measure is the Efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance: for example, only 10% of ingested food is converted to body substance by beef cattle, versus 19–31% by silkworms and 44% by German cockroaches.

I don’t want to eat insects though…
Nicklas W Bjurman

There is a reason people find insects disgusting… Because they are disgusting and filled with disease!

Ajapa

In the rural areas in Japan, spiders are often considered benefical insects both in houses and fields since they are predators of harmful insects. They can contribute to prevention of the spread of disease.
helical

I too, find tautologies to be tautological.

peter

umaii, what is the name of the revealing music?

Andy

It’s from the “Great Gate of Kiev” segment of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

aazarfg

Please don’t spoil the surprise in the title and first image, I know you want to attract view but please try to find a smart non spoiling way.

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