The Scorpions Taste Kinda Fishy describes some of the cuisine at Adventures in the Global Kitchen, the first in a series of planned programs on global cuisine held at Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History:
Crickets do not taste like chicken.But sauté them with a little olive oil and some spices and they are surprisingly edible, with a nice crunch and a subtle nut flavor. Their little legs do tend to get stuck between your teeth, though.
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Most didn’t have much of a taste — deep-fried grubs are all crunch and no flavor, though they do literally melt in your mouth. Ants have a lemony snap, though some are sour and vinegary. But tarantulas are surprisingly tasty, rather similar to crab meat. Then again, spiders aren’t insects — and neither are the bitter and vaguely fishy-tasting scorpions that topped the sushi rolls.