Japanese-Martian Diet: rice, beans, potatoes, silkworm pupae

[Taro Toporific]

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Martian silkworms eyed as protein source
Pink Tentacle-- 2006.05.24
Japanese scientists researching the prospects of long-term human settlements on Mars are dreaming up ways to address the challenges of Martian agriculture.....concept involves the construction of transparent resin domes where rice, beans, potatoes, and mulberries are grown in soil consisting of a mixture of Martian sand and compost material. The plants would generate oxygen inside the domes, and the mulberry leaves would serve as food for the silkworms...
"When cooked, silkworm pupae taste like shrimp or crab meat," says Professor Yamashita. "People all over Japan ate them during the food shortages after World War II, and you can still buy canned pupae in Nagano prefecture."

[Choeki]

I've eaten those in Korea, and they definitely don't taste like shrimp or crab. Closest thing I can think of is that they taste sort of how fresh lawn clippings smell.

[Taro Toporific]

I've eaten those in Korea, and they definitely don't taste like shrimp or crab. Closest thing I can think of is that they taste sort of how fresh lawn clippings smell.

This comment from yesterday's New Scientistis precious!

[INDENT]The line "apparently taste like crab or shrimp" was clearly written by someone who's never tried silkworm pupae. They taste exactly like they smell - when fresh, strongly of bug and sericin (silk gum)]