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I guess regular bugs have way less need of muscle than swimming bugs. I have eaten crickets in a few different ways, and they never taste anything like shrimp. ALso, living in salt water pre-seasons the flesh maybe. That is my working theory.

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BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It sounds like you’ve already solved it, just force them to live in salt water and I feel like you might be halfway there.

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- SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I fed some crickets oranges before taking them to a demonstration speech I was giving for speech class. My demonstration was on making “crispy critters” which are rice crispy treats with dry roasted crickets. As an opener, I ate a live cricket (new personal fears of parasites would stop me from doing this now). The cricket tasted just like orange candy, because he had a belly full of oranges. It was better than my dry roasted crickets. I ate a cricket live out of the yard and it tasted like grass. They are what they eat. Even so, when you cook them, they dry up to the point that you are just eating their shells mostly.
  
  The muscle is the major part. We need to figure out how to make them get major gains. Little barbells maybe.
  
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- bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  There might be some complications in the living part
  
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Swimming bugs are much bigger and thus it’s much easier to peel away their exoskeleton and intestines. Sea water definitely does have a seasoning effect, though, as seen with fresh water fish vs. ocean fish.

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- SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Your words are true. I grew up catching fresh freshwater fish, but I would rather eat saltwater fish fresh or no.
  
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think the reason why water bugs taste way better is because they have less exoskeleton. Which they don’t need because they don’t need to carry their own weight, since the water carries most of it.

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- Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Are you sure about that? Water also has a pressure that pushes against the animal.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes i am sure. If the pressure is equal on all sides (i.e. inside and out), you don’t need a skeleton. Consider how a thin foil of plastics (or a jellyfish) in deep sea does not get ripped apart.
    
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