Our secret weapon this year?

[Scot-e]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up roasted crickets.

The Daily Campus reports (http://Post original url/1KQXRh2 ) the university's dining services are advertising the insects as organic, not genetically modified and earth friendly.

The crickets are high in protein and low in fat. They're a source of B vitamins, iron and zinc.

UConn says the farm that supplies the crickets uses carbon dioxide to kill them and then roasts them.

The crickets are sold for 99 cents and come whole in small plastic containers. They're sold as a snack or a taco topping.

Dining services area assistant manager John Smith says they sell two or three containers of crickets per day at the truck.

How many crickets would it take for AB to put on extra 20 lbs.

 

[MexicoHusky]

This is an evil plot to remove meat from our diets. Huskies eat meat, not crickets.

 

[HooperScooper]

This is an evil plot to remove meat from our diets. Huskies eat meat, not crickets.

Technically aren't crickets meat?

 

[MexicoHusky]

Maybe..when eating fish do you call it fish meat? Or just fish? Likewise, do you say cricket meat?...maybe.

It's sorta like the Texans who refer to Soda as Coke. In Texas you order a Pepsi Coke or a Sprite Coke or whatever Coke...its redundant.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Mojo Buzzworthy

 

[intlzncster]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up roasted crickets.

The Daily Campus reports (http://Post original url/1KQXRh2 ) the university's dining services are advertising the insects as organic, not genetically modified and earth friendly.

The crickets are high in protein and low in fat. They're a source of B vitamins, iron and zinc.

UConn says the farm that supplies the crickets uses carbon dioxide to kill them and then roasts them.

The crickets are sold for 99 cents and come whole in small plastic containers. They're sold as a snack or a taco topping.

Dining services area assistant manager John Smith says they sell two or three containers of crickets per day at the truck.

How many crickets would it take for AB to put on extra 20 lbs.

Tastes like chicken.

Aside: Our secret weapon, as always, is The Dove.

 

[Matrim55]

 

[RichZ]

Maybe..when eating fish do you call it fish meat? Or just fish? Likewise, do you say cricket meat?...maybe.

It's sorta like the Texans who refer to Soda as Coke. In Texas you order a Pepsi Coke or a Sprite Coke or whatever Coke...its redundant.

Rural Georgia and Aabama. "I'll have a RCkokola."

 

[RichZ]

Tastes like chicken.

Every time somone's trying to get me to eat something non-traditional (rattlesnake, squirrel, possum, 'gator, etc.) and they say "It tastes just like chicken," I say, "Fine, I'll order the chicken then. Tastes the same anyway, and it's probably cheaper."

 

[intlzncster]

Every time somone's trying to get me to eat something non-traditional (rattlesnake, squirrel, possum, 'gator, etc.) and they say "It tastes just like chicken," I say, "Fine, I'll order the chicken then. Tastes the same anyway, and it's probably cheaper."

Note, I've never tried cricket. But all the other weird foods apparently tastes like chicken, so...

 

[Palatine]

My cat eats crickets and she's very active. Not that I condone it.

 

[ctchamps]

Every time somone's trying to get me to eat something non-traditional (rattlesnake, squirrel, possum, 'gator, etc.) and they say "It tastes just like chicken," I say, "Fine, I'll order the chicken then. Tastes the same anyway, and it's probably cheaper."

I'm with you. I want the super fortified version pumped with steroids, carcinogens, antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria. None of this imitation substandard stuff.

 

[MexicoHusky]

Crickets frequently have a worm inside of them. See link below. I've personally seen them crawl out of a cricket carcass. It's sorta gross and I want no part in eating them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha

 

[Palatine]

Crickets frequently have a worm inside of them. See link below. I've personally seen them crawl out of a cricket carcass. It's sorta gross and I want no part in eating them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha

Kinda like tequila.

 

[Matrim55]

Note, I've never tried cricket. But all the other weird foods apparently tastes like chicken, so...

They don't really have a taste - just crunchy. I've tried chocolate-covered and Mexican-spiced.

 

[MexicoHusky]

Kinda like tequila.

Other than the cricket worm is alive

 

[ctchamps]

Other than the cricket worm is alive

So take out your 45 and shoot the thing.