 Look at me. I just bought a new timecode sink, thanks, and I'm not using it. F***ing idiot, dude. Aaron, thanks so much for coming. Oh, are we doing that? I guess we're rolling though, we're rolling. I'm on, man, there's nothing you could do about it. Thank you, Ethan. So what are we doing today? Well, Aaron, thanks so much for asking. Thanks for coming to my home. You're welcome for coming. And as a gracious host that I am, I thought, no, for an amine should go hungry. So today we're gonna eat. I feel like you're pulling away a little bit. You're like, I'm done with this a bit. Yeah, I was done, but it's... Aaron, I'm gonna, oh man, I was gonna shave before this. Have you ever been awake at night going, boy, am I hungry, brother? Yeah, I guess so. Well, Aaron, have I got the treat for you? Oh, yeah. Because in here, I have many different bugs for us to eat. Oh, great. Have you eaten bugs before? I have, yes. Crickets, for sure. I think some kind of ants and something with wings. Well, today we have a plethora of bugs. Should I get a little trash can? Do you wanna just start with these and see how we... Well, here's the thing. Let's start out first by prefacing this with a PSA, my friends. PSA. We should all be eating insects. This should be normalized, I just wanna say right now. If we all ate insects as our source of protein, the world would be like a better place. Because it takes like literally no water to raise a cricket to full grown cricket. And then the cricket has like, what, like three grams of protein in it? It takes two gallons of water to make one almond. It's one and a half, so you were close. And these mealworms, you could probably raise a whole colony of these on one drop of water. Just one whole drop, you could spit on them and they would be happy. Should we just start with these and then we'll go for the big boys and then we can just blindly do these. We have barbecue, cheddar cheese, and Mexican spice. Oh, cheddar cheese sounds awesome. I feel like it's not. I'm a real whitey. One gram of protein per the entire packet. So here we go. Ooh, I thought they were moving, but I was just... That is a regular one. Ooh, it's like somebody's dead cat or something. So, wait, have you eaten bugs before? I have, through the... We ate some bugs. But they were, we ate a couple of ants. We had one of these in here, which I'm terrified of, which we'll both have to eat as much. It's so great. Aaron bottoms up. There was a kick. It's all right. It was just... Oh, crispy. It's like eating a Cheeto. Yeah, it's just like eating a Cheeto. Oh, what is it? What is it? What is that like, that little thing at the end? A little kind of burnt, smoky kind of... Is it just barbecue flavored? It's probably what it is. I would eat these while I'm currently eating them. Yeah, I mean, this is like pop in your mouth. I'm actually, cause I'm cutting weight, I have to input this in my fitness pal. My trainer's gonna be like, what the heck? This is Mexican spice. Aaron, do you know what a flow agent is? Ooh, that's got a kick. Let me tell you something about that. That's got a kick. This is good. I don't like these. Oh, you don't like the kick? You don't like that one? No, it's not the kick, it's the flavor. Jocelyn, do you want to try one? Why? Is it just barbecue, or is it wine though? Yeah, well, just wait until you see them. These are probably the most tame of the bunch. Yeah, I mean, this is like eating a snack. I think these are gonna be the best. This is good, I don't know. No, those are the worst. Those are absolutely the worst. I can't even place what the actual flavor is, cause it's just not cheddar. Yeah. Oh no, those are bad. Barbecue's best, cheddar's the worst. Mexican spice is right in the middle. I thought Mexican spice was pretty close to barbecue. Barbecue, I think probably, well, let me try it. Dagnabbit, barbecue's the best. So, how do you want to do this? I guess just blind, blind grab. Okay, this one fell out. It's like tarot reading. It jumped out of the deck. How is it? Black crickets. Oh, this is probably the next step up. Yeah, this is easy. These are chocolate covered. They're covered in chocolate? Mm-hmm. Well, let me add them, bro. Black crickets, sugar, vegetable fat, cocoa powder, emulsifier. These are very covered in chocolate. Millen. This is when you go to DQ and you're like, double dip it for me, please. It's probably fine for me to eat. Yeah. I didn't say that there's peanuts in it. Therefore, there shouldn't be. All right, here's what it looks like. All right, ready? Wow. It's like 100% chocolate. It's just a vessel for chocolate. And you get a little protein. You can keep these if you want. Put them in your pocket. Mm-hmm. Do you want to put them in? Oh, there was a little thing at the end. Do you want, do you want, um, this? What? There is actually like a weird aftertaste. Yeah. There's like a... Ah! Oh, that's weird. I actually, I actually don't. I don't know if I would eat more of those because of the aftertaste. How is it good? Oh, this is the one I didn't want to eat. It's a black scorpion. That's such a big jump. I love how it's like ingredients. Asian forest scorpion. Thanks. Here, don't, don't grab it out. Let it fall out of the bag. Oh, it's in like a little tub. I'm afraid of it. A little bit. Ah! Ah! Look at that. I'm assuming like they just give it to you with no warning. Like it's safe to eat the whole thing, right? Like these things usually have venom. Would you rather eat the silica beads than this? Probably. Probably scorpion. He's like charred. Oh, that's a little boy. He's barely hanging on there. Oh no, Aaron. Are you excited? No. Oh yeah! This is like the lobster of eating. Of the land. First of all, his stinger is like tucked up in his body. I don't know if they did that like for presentation or if that just happened, but it's very polite. I know. There's nothing on here that technically says that it's edible, but it does say that it has no MSG. So we're safe. Oh, that's good, man. No, it says on the back, this is edible. Oh. Edible Asian forest scorpion. New. Yeah. New. New. Well, do you want to just start off with claws and go from there? Start off with claws. What if they pinch our tongues, Aaron? I don't think this is going to happen, dude. No, I think it. Personally, I want to stay away from the stinger. I don't think... I'm sure it's... It's like tucked in the back. I'm sure it's fine. That's what I say. It's so polite. He's like coming in like dress code. He's like, ooh, put your stingers over there. Oh, there it is! I got it out. Oh, look at that. Oh, it's right there. That's stingers right there. I don't want that in my fucking belly, dude. There has to be trace amounts of venom. There has to be. They didn't boil it out. Scorpions and spiders are actually said to taste a little bit. But the only danger is in the venom sacs What did they? Are you going to take another bite? Are you going to take a big bite of the body? I don't get it. The content is... There you go. There you go. I'll eat the front. How is it? Good? No, it's not good. It's so good. You're so brave. God, you're so brave. It's not great. No, it's not good. I feel like it's not meant to be. I'm trying to think of if there's another food that we normally eat that's that crunchy. And I don't think I eat anything that's that crunchy. What is this? This is giant water bug. What? That's like the most painful sting on planet Earth. There's a video of a guy and he's like, all right, I'll get it to sting my toe. And he does. And he's like, ah, he's like screaming. Here, you look that way and put your hand out like this. Okay. I feel like I have to Google this one because I know too much about the water bug. All right, ready? Yeah. Don't look at it yet. I hate this. Okay, go ahead. Oh, okay. That made me jump for a second, dude. I was like, yeah. Ooh, God, it's got little eyes too. I hate that. Aaron, are you ready? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, man, if we were all eating mealworms and crickets, I'd be fine, but this shit. This is a different bug. Are we eating the whole thing whole? Is that what you're doing? I don't know. I guess so. Not the whole thing, but do you want some mustard? You put mustard on it? Yeah, you want ketchup? It's not a bad idea, honestly. Wow, I really, my body is just like, don't. This is a bad idea. Even though I'm like, yeah, whatever. I can do anything for the views. I'm just like, I- It's gonna get two views. It's a mental fight. Oh my God, there he goes. Ooh, we got wing bits. How is it? Mm-hmm. Oh my God. How is it? Oh, okay. Why are you chewing? Just chew it. It's probably worse with the mustard because it gives it like a goo. The little wing bits, that's the worst. Yeah, like it starts to come apart in your mouth. You want some mustard? No, I don't, I know. Man. The bin is also behind this. No, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so strong. Oh, no. Isn't that so difficult? It's so, so. That tasted like wrong. Like how are you supposed to prepare these? If there are cultures that eat this, there have to be like the fucking sprinkle a little shit on it or you know, like a little vinegar or whatever. And it's like, ooh, num, num, num. Don't you wish Dan was here? He would love this. Oh yeah, he would be so into it. He wouldn't even fucking think twice. He'd like leave this thing. All right, you can pick the next one. Here we go. Weaver ants. Weaver ants. Whoa, look at that. The whole colony in there, huh? Damn. Jesus Christ. This is the kind of stuff that like, if I just put it in like a fried rice or something, I'd be like, yeah. A-okay, you know? This and fried rice would be sick. Do you have any instant rice or something? We should like. I mean, I have a rice cooker and I have rice, but it was like 20 minutes. Why don't we load up some rice? We'll be filming for the next 20 minutes, right? We'll make a big rice dish. Let's save this for the rice. Hey everyone, editor Justin here bringing you some breaking news. Ethan's microphone stopped working from this point on the video. So I couldn't deal with it. Shit happens. Pick another one. Oh yeah. Bamboo worms. I'm assuming they either live on or eat bamboo. These are the kind of ones that I think would be like squishy if they were in the wild, you know? You remember in The Lion King? When he's like a grub. Slimy, yep, shut up. Yeah, I think it's like. That's what these would be like if they were fresh. And maybe it's what they'll be like. Right now. They look like salt and vinegar. Oh, they're like powdered though? Oh, these are flavored? Oh, they're seasoned with salt. Just salt? Man, they like caked that shit in salt. I'm just gonna go for it because mealworms seem like really easy. Look at this little, look at this bad boy. Wait, I should probably hold it so that his head is showing. He looks like a little weenus. You know what he looks like? He looks like that lamp that you put on your wall and then you like pull the foreskin down and it turns on. That's what foreskin looks like. Oh, you stand it up. You're going on a little adventure. He's attentive. All right, I'm going in. Ooh, they're like cold. Wow, it really looks like they're caked in salt. I cannot taste any salt. That's actually not bad. Yeah, it's great. I don't mind that one. It's kind of got that toasty flavor that the mealworms have. I don't feel like that is cold. It's weird. Yeah, it was a little cold. I don't know why it was cold. I don't like these. No? No, they make me sad. Give daddy the bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta pick one now. Oh God, is this the turnichela? No, it's mixed bugs. Mixed bugs? So we have dehydrated grasshoppers, mole crickets, silkworms, field crickets, soga worms, salt to maintain freshness. Not for flavor. Oh, look at that. Ooh, that's like a little, that's like a handful of mixed nuts right there. It literally looks like a walnut, like this, whatever this creature is. Looks like a little walnut. It just looks like there's bees in here. Well, you know what we got to do, right? We got to, we got to do like a dad handful, you know? Oh, God. Just, hey, you got to do, you don't have to eat all those. I'm not. You get like a little handful, and then you just kind of, and then you do this, you know? And then you just pop them in, right? Hold on, I kind of want some salt, because I feel like that's going to make it a little better. Ready? Just pop them in. Are you sure? This is bad, it's bad, it's bad, isn't it? Oh, I got a head. Ready, ready? Zangled, twinkle, a little star. That's not bad. Exactly, you know what? With the salt, it makes it a lot better. I got them all. That wasn't bad. The salt helps a lot. Yeah, it does. It's really like the mental barrier of I'm eating bugs. That one wasn't bad, especially, and the salt was like 60% of why that wasn't bad. Yeah, that was probably the best of the bunch, other than the mealworms. The mealworms are fun. Hey, look! Mamma Mia! Oh, Mamma Mia, look at this. Superworms, what the hell is a superworm? God, we're going to die. Ready to eat superworms dipped in chocolate. I'm actually going to put salt on these too, because a little salted chocolate, that's not bad. Those look large. Yeah, they're pretty large, eh? I don't like the chocolate ones, because they're misleading. Because it's really bitter on the end. Well, let me see if we can do this. Oh, you can barely, it's like a hole inside. You can't even see. I mean, that's the worm. Yeah, but like, you'd think it'd be filled with... Goop and gum. Actually, these will probably be fine, because I think the superworms are very similar to the mealworms. I was like eating a piece of chocolate, dude. And with the salt, that was good. I mean, I was straight up like past the threshold. Praise Jesus. What was this? What was that move, dude? Telling yourself a joke in your head. Annual cicatius, not quarterly. You can get payback for all that loud sound. You can walk outside. Oh, these are so much bigger. Yo, those are huge. These are really... Those are huge, dude. That's why the water bug was so tough. It's just like, it's like eating a full creature. Oh my God! Look at their little... He's praying for his life. Did you see their little eyes? Oh yeah, yeah. No, I saw their little eyes, bud. Did you see the memories that they hold inside? God, he looks so sad. That's what I don't like about it. It's just like, please. All right, ready? Yeah. Okay, ready? What? Act different than all the other ones. People in the comments might be saying, Ethan, you're not even eating some of these bugs. You're just tasting some of the bugs. You're not. So, I'd like to say that. What is my shit gonna look like after this? June beetles. These are more ribbed for my pleasure than those are. You're preemptive disgust. Ooh. Why do they give us so much? I mean, I guess it's good, right? For people who legitimately eat these, this is like, yeah, hell yeah. I got a serving and put this in. This is like a single serving of June bugs right here. This one's not really creeping me out, so I'm just gonna go for it. Ow. Very crispy. That's a different flavor. I don't like that flavor at all. That's like toasty. That's like it's burnt or something. So that wasn't so bad actually. And there wasn't like that one super crunchy part that I hate. We have another form of Saga worms. Oh. Our chocolate stuff. Unchocolate Saga worms. Unchocolate Saga. Nice. Delicioso, baby. Oops. Oh, it's like a dried fucking ball sack. Look at this. This is someone's testicle. Oh yeah, those are nasty. Oh my God, someone's hurt. This so clearly was like moist and gooey and now it's just flat and sad. Oh my God. I actually don't like this one. This one's really kind of... It's like makeup. It's upsetting me. Focus, focus. Focus. Yum. So Saga worms are the pupae of Rinchophoris pharyngeus. Is that flick from a bug's life? Oh, it's just gonna stick. I kind of weirded out by this one, honestly. Like I kind of got one. Runges, Quasic Sins, 1960s. Sorry. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I don't much care for it. That's the first one that had like squish to it. Oh, I didn't get the squish because I put musty on it. Oh yeah, dude, that was gross. Cause they're all just like super dried out so you crunch it and you're like, okay. That one like, it actually had like some give. There are new times come. Why'd you reach into that big ball there? And we're gonna see what this looks like. For our final bug, give it a little beauty thing. Hairy little boy. Let's see. It's kind of small. I thought it'd be bigger. You know, people keep tarantulas as pets and stuff. And like, I get it. You know, you use like an edgy like 14 something year old and you're just like, look at your edges like crawling on your arm. Are you gonna get upset if we eat this tarantula? No, it's their food. It's ready to eat from the bag. You can eat every part. Some people prefer to remove the tiny fine hairs before eating. You can do this by holding over a gas flame and placing it in the oven at high heat for a few minutes. Didn't you already do that though? The dehydrated tarantulas eggs are tucked in legs are tucked in during the drying process to avoid them breaking. They're very fragile. I thought you said, I mean, you did say eggs and I was like, what? Oh! It's insane. Oh dude, do you wanna hold it over a flame to get rid of the hairs? Yeah, we should pull it over a flame so we can burn off the hairs. Yeah, you can see, oh yeah, you can see the little hairs burning off. Whoa, they're like singin'. Oh! Little smoky, we're gonna set up an alarm or something. These are hairs are not burning off. Yeah, it's just makin' it crispy dude. Yeah, his un-ticulating hairs are still there. This is like the ultimate stall right now that's happening because this tarantula has been out for like 20 minutes and none of us have even been close to eating it. That looks right. Thank God. Y'all, Aaron, you're too kind. You're looking at this. Yeah, you gotta, it's like, you know, you get calamari and it's like, you get the nice little rings or you get the straight-up squid. I'm afraid it's gonna come alive. It's not, ready? That was the worst flavor of them all. That was, it was like bitter sawdust. Blah! All right, what do you think? Just have a little leg. It's like a little lobster leg. That actually sounds nice. There's not much. What'd you think? I didn't like it, Aaron. No? No, not for me. What was it like? Bad. Yeah, let's make some, let's make some ant fried rice. You got some soy sauce? Maybe a little like mirin or, yeah. Oh, you're like full on doing it, huh? Yeah. What do you think? Try that puppy up, baby. There we go. Yeah, let's get some of that. Soy sauce? That's perfect. Wow, what a little meal we've got, huh? Yeah, nice little bug dish. I guess we should put in the ants. Now, let's throw some ants in there. There we go. Get them nice and like oiled up, you know? Like I already smell that like, really that insect smell, you know? All right, let's throw that rice in there. It's like the exact right amount of water. There's like no moisture in this rice. Look at this fucking spatula, it's covered in ant parts. That's perfect. Got a little heat in there, a little kind of pepper or something? I think I have gochujang. Really? That'd be interesting. There you go. Perfect. It doesn't really look like much as far as the ant part. Yeah. It looks like fried rice. I didn't even plan on making fried rice. I thought we were just gonna eat bugs. Hey man, you know what? You gotta make the best of the situation. Is that a good source of protein though? Oh yeah, absolutely. You're gonna start ordering ants putting your fried rice every night. Yeah, I'd say this is well fried, eh? Oh yeah. You've got yourself a nice little dinner, huh? Well, ant fried rice. So I don't know if you got like a good look inside the bowl or anything. There's our ant fried rice. You can see the little bits of ant in there. I probably could have put a lot more ants in there. All right, you ready? Hey, you can eat to docky moss, am I right? It means hello in Japanese. Yeah? About even tasting them. Ants. That's pretty good. Yeah, that ever present bug taste that was in like mostly all of them, you can kind of taste it in this. So you're like getting a little bit of that if you like it, but it's definitely like all the other flavors like way overwhelming. No, it's good. I like it. Well, we've eaten the bugs and you know, they weren't half bad. Waterbug? Was pretty bad. Like even vegetable for sources of protein are like worse for water than insects. So if you can... There's like a billion ants. If you can, yeah, exactly. If you can get like a cheap source of dried insects like crickets or ants, this is like the easiest thing to just like whip up. And you have like a pretty banging source of protein right there. That's good for the environment. It's just crunchy. Adds a little bit of prawn. Thanks for coming on today. Thanks for making me a nice meal. Nice dinner. I actually wasn't sure what I was gonna have for dinner. You're gonna have ant fried rice. Hey, it's been a pledge. It's been a pledge. Thanks for sharing your bugs with me. Those have been sitting in my drawer for a long time. Wait, they're how old?