Insect Sushi

By John Farrier in Food & Drink on Aug 7, 2010 at 11:57 am

Japanese chef Shoichi Uchiyama has developed a line of sushi recipes that use insects, rather than fish, as the primary source of protein. He believes that carefully-selected insects are not only healthy and tasty, but can help feed a growing world population. From a 2008 article in The Daily Telegraph:

“In order to get 1 kg of beef, we have to raise cows on huge areas of land and give them many more kilos of fodder before they are ready to be slaughtered,” he said. “Insects eat the things that humans don’t and can be kept in much smaller spaces.

“Most importantly, insects are very nutritionally balanced, have little fat and are the perfect food source.”

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  1. clinton robert labombard
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    And if you like shrimp, crab, lobster, and crayfish, then what’s the difference? I love bugs!

  2. namowal
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Actually I’ve had trouble enjoying shrimp and other crustaceans for several years because I keep thinking Gross! It’s a bug!

  3. Ivory
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    This is one of those things I WANT to support, but then the idea of putting a bug in my mouth makes me shudder. perhaps a processed and lovely named version of bugs would go over better.

  4. Gdl
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    When there is absolutely nothing else to eat…I’ll go for the bugs…not before, not even a second.

  5. clinton robert labombard
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    BBQed soft-shelled roaches, locust-kabobs, fried maggots… mmm mmm mmm!

  6. BoT
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Let me be the first pedant to arrive on the scene: that is not an insect!

    Also, I fully support this movement…. for other people.

  7. A
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    I had sushi in the fridge that I was just about to go and eat and I come this friggin’ post.

    God Dammit.

  8. Matt
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    how do they kill the bug?

  9. davez
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    Eat bug sushi? Pfff, cut to the chase: Cannibal Apocalypse.

  10. notofthisworld
    Aug 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    So pretty much it has legs and eyes…there is no way I could put those creepy crawly little feet in my mouth and I refuse to eat anything that is looking at me. Unacceptable.

  11. Gary Klauski
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 6:53 am

    Its got wasabi so I’d try it! Mmmm, wasabi…

  12. LisaL
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Shrimp, lobster, etc… we’re USED to eating.
    There is no way I’d ever eat a roach willingly unless I was on the brink of death and there was nothing else left to eat.

  13. cathy
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 8:28 am

    In my opinion this is WAY LESS disgusting to eat than the poor tortured animals that most people eat. Go Vegan!

  14. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    I hope that by “Go Vegan!” mean “Hooray Vegan” as in “Go Yankees” rather than “I Command you to become vegan”

  15. A
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    You best be trollin’ cathy.

  16. Frau
    Aug 8th, 2010 at 7:13 pm

    I love sushi. I have had octopus. There is not enough sake and wasabi to get me to eat a bug that I would normally shoo out of the house.

  17. Gauldar
    Aug 9th, 2010 at 7:24 am

    Looks more appetizing then the bowl of worms they give you in the military.

  18. Zavatone
    Aug 9th, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOO!

  19. cindolin
    Aug 9th, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    I don’t think eating bugs is that gross. It makes sense nutritionally, and it indeed would help solve the hunger problem. I think if this idea were to evolve somewhat and we as a society started to familiarize ourselves with bugs in food form, bugs could very well become the next beef.

  20. Kalel
    Aug 9th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    The more we eat like chimps in the wild, the healthier we’ll be.

  21. Abe Normal
    Aug 10th, 2010 at 10:58 am

    is it just me or does that look like mukade. which is a poisonous japanese centipede. you wouldn’t catch me eating that!!!!

  22. Gauldar
    Aug 11th, 2010 at 7:47 am

    @Abe Normal

    How about a piece of Fugu?


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