Timeline for Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches?
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| Apr 14, 2020 at 21:47 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @NibblyPig Due to the size of the roaches, they could be eaten more like crabs, lobster, or crawfish where you eat around the exoskeletons avoiding that problem | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 16:59 | comment | added | user2781 | I would assume the cultural bias originates from the likelihood of wild insects carrying diseases. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | NibblyPig | I've eaten lots of small insects like ants, it's like eating a matchstick. The taste is fine but you end up with a mouth full of splintery bits that get stuck between your teeth. Much like how Stephen Fry describes it youtube.com/watch?v=jY7TPjqgYJ4 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 12:42 | comment | added | Mołot | @SLC no it is not unpleasant. Not when cooked properly. And if other sources of food are harder to use, people will learn. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 10:42 | comment | added | NibblyPig | I don't think it's so much cultural bias as the fact that insects are unpleasant to eat. Would you cook and crunch up a chicken head? That's what eating an insect is like. Bits of it get stuck in between your teeth, it is very unpleasant. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 22:50 | comment | added | Thucydides | Many cultural artifacts survive even long past the end of the culture where it comes from. Head coverings on women are thought to be relics of status symbols in ancient Babylon, and religion holidays like Christmas and Easter are pagan relics. People will do what they need to survive, but in your future I suspect eating real animal protein will be a status symbol and only plebes, students and the homeless eat cockroach on a regular basis. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 22:19 | comment | added | gustafc | +1, although something tells me that cultural bias will evaporate fairly quickly once the apocalypse arrives. In the post-apocalyptic world "culture" would be a weird warping of what we know today with a bunch of new traditions where, once a year on Apocalypse Eve, families gather and gorge themselves on roast cockroach (and drink themselves into oblivion). | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 20:16 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |