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Loblaws, Canadas largest grocery chain, is now selling cricket flour. The product itself is not new; many speciality stores have been selling it for a few years now. But Loblaw is the first major Canadian retailer to sell the product under its own private label, Presidents Choice.
For Loblaw, with its head office at 1 Presidents Choice Circle in Brampton, Ont., this is not a decision made lightly. Loblaw boldly put a picture of a cricket on the same package as its prized Presidents Choice brand logo. And given the growing number of consumers looking for protein alternatives beyond the meat trifecta of beef, pork and chicken, selling cricket flour is a sign that the protein wars in Canada are heating up.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-canada-wants-you-to-know-eating-crickets-
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)I think I would at least try it.
WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)which is crazy for a gardener!
irisblue
(33,036 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)Ohiogal
(32,104 posts)He read about how good it is for you and full of protein, and said, hey I'd try it!
Me, all I can think of is eating bugs. I told him no way.
unblock
(52,352 posts)Especially if you ride a motorcycle or a bike without a mouth cover lol
Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)😊
dhol82
(9,353 posts)and you dont see little antennae wandering through the mix, I dont have a problem.
unblock
(52,352 posts)I've had cricket tacos in Mexico. Didn't even taste weird, just a little crunchy.
Oddly enough I won't eat the usual land meats. We generally describe ourselves as pescatarians as we eat seafood. The objections I have to eating land meat (health, ethics, big business lack of concern for customers) don't really apply to insects.
So I'd sooner eat cricket than beef, lol!
Haven't tried cricket flour but why not?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)That might be an irrational attitude but it would gross me out.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)...if I weren't a vegetarian
hlthe2b
(102,408 posts)Runningdawg
(4,526 posts)Back in the 70's, in the midst of the meat shortage a family at our church became worm farmers. It wasn't long until foods, using flour made from them, started popping up at potlucks. The texture was sometimes a bit off, but there was very little difference in taste.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)vegetarian
TygrBright
(20,772 posts)Some things no under most circumstances.
Some things yes under most circumstances.
Answers to super-broad questions usually yield little information that is either accurate or valuable.
If what's really desired is the information "How many people on DU who regularly read in the C&B group are instantly/instinctively squicked at the notion of eating cricket flour," you may get some sense of it.
wearily,
Bright