Everyone Jokes About the Billions of Locusts in Africa, Saying They'll Eat Everything - It's Not That Simple
“Locusts” probably won’t be strangers to everyone, I don’t know what kind of childhood everyone has, but most of my childhood was with these locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, dragonflies and other insects, growing up with these “little friends”. But they didn’t grow up, because most of them definitely wouldn’t survive, especially if there were a lot of them, they would just go into the belly, and after being deep-fried, I almost cried because my neighbor’s kid did it.
Locusts and grasshoppers distinction
Difference between locusts and grasshoppers. Locusts can fly 100 miles in a day, and the locust plague in Africa this time is 300 miles in a day.
And grasshoppers? Grasshoppers can only bounce around your home lawn for two days, and die in autumn. If you’re lucky, they’ll only be in the park. If you live in a villa.
They are all one species, in the Insect class, Arthropoda class.
Why didn’t ancient people eat locusts?
Back then, because of the locust plagues every year, they did eat locusts, but later, the plagues became more and more serious every year, at that time the ancient people were simple and honest, they thought eating locusts would anger the gods in the sky, so they didn’t eat them every year.
There’s also the reason that they didn’t have as many seasonings as we do now, like pepper powder, chili powder, cumin and other seasonings. Poor people probably wouldn’t have them, let alone buy them. Rich people wouldn’t even buy them. Do you think they’d eat it?
You taste it, and savor it.
Why don’t Africans eat them now?
Perhaps they think this thing isn’t tasty. Also, maybe they don’t like to deal with it, because they spend every day looking for wild grains and small animals inside the ground or in the river. They’re used to it, just like we eat rice or steamed buns every day.
Furthermore, you think they boil the seeds they give us to plant? Africans would spend the effort to catch them and roast them in a bunch? Deep-fried?
They want freedom. We are not on the same channel.
Will I eat them in China?
If you ask if I will go and catch them to eat in China, I’ll wait and see when they come, and then I’ll eat them or not.
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