B1 – Intermediate
A restaurant owner in Mexico is offering tacos topped with insects. He has wild items added to his menu such as scorpions and spiders too.
Tacos with insects
Discuss:
1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
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1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
-I have seen in India a lot of different exotic kinds of food like, bugs, rats, snakes and others. By the momment I have not tried any of them.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
-Yes, I think that a lot of foods from here are exotic for people of the others parts of the word, for example: snails with tomato, grilled octopus, different types of seafood or any part of the pig…
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
-Every country has its own food culture and I think that it´s okay if it does not affect to the environment. I would try all them because I love eating!
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1- I have tried some exotic food in mexico, a chameleon for example.
2- don,t have a lot of exotic food in Spain.
3- depends the culture of the country but in Spain it is not very common
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1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
I’ve eaten some snacks made with insects and the taste were goods, a little salty.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
No yet, I tasted them in the food trade fair.
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not
I think that it is ok, but we need to familiarize with them. For example, we eat snail in my country and maybe it sense very exotic and strange food but for us is a delicious food with a really good taste!
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I tried Thai food, spicy soup, salads and noodles with different sauces and I saw insects on the street like worms, grasshoppers and scorpions but I didn’t try anything.
In Spain there are exotic foods, for example snails, oxtail, pig’s feet and ears or barnacles. For me this is exotic so for tourism more.
I think society is not ready to eat insects. There are some cities where it is normal to see insects in the markets and on the streets, but in Spain right now I don’t see much of a future for it. Later on, I wouldn’t mind starting to introduce this new gastronomy.
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The most exotic food I’ve ever tasted are tacos and sushi, I guess. I knew Mexicans are used to eat grasshoppers, but I didn’t know they also eat scorpions and spiders. I think that all is disgusting.
I don’t know about any exotic food from Spain; perhaps I could mention the sea urchins, that’s a is a typical delicacy in Catalonia which is eaten raw.
In my opinion, people are free to eat whatever they want. I cannot say if it’s ok or not for me to use and put insects as a topic in the food, but I’m extremely sure I would never eat bugs (I have entomophobia!).
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1.What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
I have never eaten insects, I couldn´t eat it if I know they are insects.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
In Spain, I have never seen exotic food in supermarkets, but in Spain there are Chinese and Thai restaurants, although I don´t usually go there. I prefer Italian or Mediterranean food.
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
If other people like it, why not? However, I would never include insects in my food.
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1.- In my life I’ve tasted many dishes that could be wild for other people or culture like: cow liver, entrails, cow tongue or rabit, but insects, I never have tasted that.
2.- Yes, In Spain there are several dishes that can be wild for many people, like: nose, ear, bowels, blood, all os these named as Casqueria. In Spain nothing of pig is wasted.
3.- Yes, but it is dificult to eat it, because we grow with different mindset about the insect food. But I think that is the food of the future.
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1. I think the most exotic food I ever eaten is sushi. The reason is that when i was a child i hate fish and the smell when it’s raw. Also I had problems with rice and now I love them.
2. Probably some of the foods cook in Spain are strange for other countries like cow, lamb or chicken gut, or pig ears.
3. I think that insects is our future. Because there are a lot of people in the world and there aren’t enough food for all of us. Insects give us proteins and vitamins. But we have to take care of them because some pesticides are killing our insects and in some countries they have serious problems to pollinate their harvest because of lack of bees, causing more hunger
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I only know some exotic meals like kangaroo or alligator meat but I have never tried them. Regarding fruits we can see different varieties nowadays in the Spanish markets. Some of them are delicious.
I have never seen before insects in the food so far in Spain. Perhaps there are restaurants or delicatessen shops offering this kind of food but I have not heard about them. But for me it is ok putting insects in the food. At the end of the day, if tasting is increased or more nutritive it does not matter the origin of this kind of food.
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1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
The most exotic kind of food I’ve tried so far could be snails cooked in a spicy sauce, really tasteful and delicious.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
When I was a child it was usual to eat fried animal liver or kidney from time to time. At some fun fairs you could buy fried pig guts on a stick but I don’t know if that would be considered exotic in other countries.
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
For me it’s ok, I think as the world population is growing at a fast pace it will be a future source of protein for humans all around the globe.
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1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
We can find exotic fruits in the supermarkets but you will not find insects or maybe I don´t know if there are specific markets were they sell them.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
I don´t think that we can consider exotic parts of the body that in other countries will not eat them. Maybe other cultures can consider them something disgusting.
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
I would not try an insect. I even can not touch them.
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1. I have tried a muesly bar with insect here in Spain. But the insects percentage wasn’t high.
2. The spanish food maybe is exotic to the people from the other countries. The “criadillas” is typical here and it’s testicle of animals.
Chorizo and morcilla are made with pig blood.
3. For me it’s good. The insects are another ingredient to make recipe. The problem maybe is the connotation about the insects. The people normally think that insects are disgusting but this people haven’t tasted the insects.
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1. What exotic kinds of food do you know or have tried?
I only knew the ants as a exotic kind of food, but I know that there were more exotic kinds.
2. Are there exotic foods in Spain?
I am not sure. I know you cannot find/buy exotic food in the supermarkets, but maybe there are some restaurants that cook exotic foods.
3. For you, is it okay to use and put insects in our food? Why or why not?
For me put insects in our food is disgusting, because I live in Spain and here our culture is see the insects like an insect not like a food. But I understand that there are different cultures and some of them see the insect like an excellent food.
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I have been visiting Malaysia and I had the opportunity to try fried bug, It was a strange experience because I liked them, there were salty and crunchy. I remember I repeated several times during my trip there.
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