Day 28: The Arthropod Squad

I decided to whip up some mealworm, morio worm and shrimp stir fry to see how the insects would taste when matched with some of their sea faring family members. All in all I found that they really complimented each other; there’s definitely a very distinct difference in how the two taste but the shrimp had a softer texture which went really well with the crispness of the mealworms. I mentioned this previously but when I see something like a lobster next to a scorpion for example, I can’t help but notice that they have an extremely similar body shape and movement and yet many people seem to draw the line at the land dwelling version. 

I did a little research and found out that in the past lobsters used to be called «The poor man’s meal» and were given almost exclusively to prisoners as punishment. I suppose this speaks to the over abundance of lobsters at the time but it has always been a pattern in history that the scarcity of a product only increases the demand for it. Could it be that our constant exposure to the insects around us is something that affects people’s opinions on eating it?

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/how-lobster-went-from-prison-food-to-an-expensive-delicacy