♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So today you get to try this. - No.
What the [bleep]?!
- No way.
- Bugs, really? Bugs?
- (gasping) No, are they alive?
Shut up, those are alive.
- Aaaaah! (giggling) Oh wow.
I can smell, like, the actual earth tones of it.
- Oh my gosh, is it a caterpillar?
- Are these silkworms or something?
These remind me of my childhood because we grew these in third grade.
- Silkworms?
I am actually the biggest fan of chocolate covered bugs.
I don't know about live bugs though.
- Why is it always alive? Okay, let's do it. Sure.
- I was complaining about brussel sprouts on Kids React.
- (FBE) Now you get to try it.
- How do you go from something so small...?
(groaning) I'm sorry, that still looks gross.
- Oh, great, a fork.
Because we're not animals eating bugs.
- Oh, no, am I gonna do this?
All right, bottoms up.
Man, that's weird. That's, um, that's new for sure.
Oh my god, that's kind of spicy.
It tastes, like, really grainy, like a granola bar.
It's gonna be hard to brush my teeth tonight.
- That looks so disgusting.
All right, my tongue feels like...
it doesn't feel like it was spicy, but kind of tingly.
Like chickeny. Just a little bit.
- Okay, it's chewy. It's not bad.
There aren't any legs or eyeballs or anything this time,
so that's a plus.
Um, interesting texture.
It doesn't go down well.
- I got to take the tiniest one. Oh, it crunches!
Okay, (inhaling) hoo! I can do this.
Okay, it tastes like chicken.
It's spicy. (laughing) It's freaking me out, but it wasn't awful.
- This looks really good.
Ooh, it smells-- hoo!
That's good.
- Wait, it doesn't look too bad. It doesn't look too bad.
It doesn't look too bad. It doesn't...
(crunching)
Ugh, no.
It tastes like old, old fries.
It looks gross. It doesn't taste-- it's not the worst thing
I've ever tasted.
- Why are these so big though? That's kind of nasty.
(crunching)
I don't like the taste.
I don't like this stuff on the outside. It tastes kind of gross,
but the inside, like, I don't know,
I'm gonna take it out and eat it.
That is so gross!
Ew, it's crunchy.
Wait, ew, wait.
I kinda-- I get-- I regret doing this.
(crunching)
It kinda tastes weird.
- (laughing) I can't do it!
(moaning)
(rapidly) One, two, three!
(gagging) It's just bland and tastes not-- like nothing, and awful.
It would be like trying to eat a packing peanut
or styrofoam or something.
Well, it's just bad.
- It's not at all what I expected, and it is-- it's good.
What it is is freaking me out though.
- (FBE) You just ate silkworms. - (groaning) My god.
I heard of it in third grade,
but I never thought I'd eat one.
- I'm disgusted.
- Shouldn't they be (gagging) put to better use
by making silk or something, instead of some teenager eating them?
- Okay, I see it.
There's, like, some kind of meat thing in there.
I bet it's protein.
You can fry it. It'll taste good.
- (FBE) So silkworms are mostly eaten in different countries throughout Asia,
but they have also been proposed for cultivation by astronauts
as space food for long-term missions
because they are packed with protein, are tiny,
and require little food and water. - Lovely.
Couldn't pick anything else besides worms?
- That is super cool!
You can eat them.
You can make, like, fabric out of them.
This little bug can do a lot.
- See, that's the one reason that I can't be an astronaut.
Not the, you know, lack of skills and any sort of profession whatsoever,
but the worm part.
Couldn't eat it.
- (FBE) For the poll, do you recommend that people eat silkworms?
- Never. Don't eat it.
- Yes.
- I do not recommend this.
- I always recommend that you try as much as you can one time,
and then never do it again.
- I would not recommend it
unless you want to go through a cultural experience thing.
- I don't recommend it at all, unless you want to have
a bland, awful taste coating your mouth.
- Why not? They're not awful to eat.
You just have to get past the fact of you are eating a bug.
- Yes, do it. It's an experience.
I think I'm gonna try some more of these.
I immediately regret this decision.
- Thank you so much for making me eat silkworms.
Just kidding. You guys are great. Thanks for watching.
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Yes, I tried the silkworms, and, yes, they're disgusting.
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