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Posted on 02/17/2019 7:54:52 AM PST by bgill
When you want a quick snack, something crunchy and salty usually hits the spot. So, how about you grab some...crickets? An Austin company that's launching in H-E-B stores next week is hoping you'll keep an open mind. Mohammad Ashour, the founder and CEO of EXO Protein, said the sustainability and high protein content of crickets make them a perfect snack. "It doesn't give you the feel of the fat and the carbs that you get from chips...but it certainly is quite tasty, and a lot of people use them as a substitute for popcorn or other type munchies," Ashour said. EXO protein sells whole-roasted crickets and also puts them into a protein powder to use in bars and bites. Ashour said he gets it if you think that's a little weird. "Absolutely. I mean most of the food that we eat at once one point was very strange," Ashour said. "I mean, think of sushi. Raw fish to most Americans 30 years ago was more than strange. It was revolting."
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Mohammad is selling
1) You're eating bugs. We're past that point in our evolution.
2) A raghead is trying to sell them to you.
Folks lining up to buy this?
((crickets))
uh-oh. I see PETA starting a new branch....”PETI” (People for the Ethical Treatment of Insects). :)
When I was a teen I got a job at Hudson’s, a fancy department store. I worked at the candy counter. We had a section in our display that featured chocolate-covered crickets. The entire time I worked there we did not sell one box.
For those who don’t know, central Texas gets a major cricket infestation every year, typically around early September. It’s so bad, you literally crunch as you walk over dead crickets. They give the mob of grackles something to do.
So this guy is selling a pest and robbing the natural predator of the pests of their source of nutrition.
However, if Mohammed needs a logo, why not a cartoon cricket with Buddy Holly glasses on the label? Yeah, well, that’ll be the day.
Bugs ain’t Kosher.
All the Proles are eating them.
Don’t know what happened to my comment but that’s what I had meant to post so thanks.
“And when there was no meat, we ate fowl. And when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.”
“You ate what?”
“We ate sand.”
“You ate SAND?”
“That’s right.”
Enjoy your Nancy Boy crickets, liberals!
And the stench is horrific.
“Instead of crickets, I’d settle for a fresh head of cauliflower or a can of pork ‘n beans which our HEB hasn’t sold in decades. The HEB here shelves are as empty as a turd world country and what they do have stocked is dented and what other stores refuse to accept.”
Which HEB do you go to?
Seems to me that creepy, jumping insects are "non-edible" by definition, not edible.
Edible?! What makes this insect edible? You wash it? Fry it? Cover it in chocolate? Dip in into ranch sauce? Prepare it somehow to mask both the looks and the taste of it? So you don't eat them raw like sushi, right?
Just askin'. 'Cause it seems like a really distasteful idea. :-)
AOC GND diet coming to a grocery store near you after the national cow slaughter. Wonder if crickets fart?
“EXO Protein”
As in EXOskeleton?
No thank you. Flossing to remove cricket legs from between my teeth just doesn’t sound very appetizing.
They ain't even FOOD for anything but birds and third-world flotsam.
I know insects are supposed to be a protein-rich source of food, but they’re bugs. I doubt I’m going to get past the cultural habits of a lifetime to deliberately start eating bugs (even though all of us inadvertently eat about 2 pounds of insects per year, in vegetables, coffee, etc.)
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