♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (Finebros) Today you're gonna be trying
an alternative form of protein. - Oh god.
NO!!! Hell. No!
- No.
You can just put this away. I'm not eating a cricket.
- IIIIII'm busy this day. I have to go do a thing.
- I don't know how down I am for this.
- Bugs is one of the things that I never do.
- All right, I'll try it.
Honestly, they're kinda cute.
- They're crickets.
I get a dozen large every week for my leopard gecko.
- It's a living an-- (crickets chirping)
(retches) And it's making noises.
- I will-- (cricket chirps)
(screams shrilly)
They're chirping!
- (Finebros) And now you get to taste it.
- Wait-wait-wait, they're in the cookies?
- They're in cookies?
This makes it a little less scary.
- I'm-- I'm concerned,
'cause it looks like just cookies and milk,
but I know it's not.
- Here we go.
Mm! There's no cricket in it... I think.
- Is there anything currently alive in it? - (Finebros) No.
- Everything is dead. Okay, that's all I wanted to know.
It's a chocolate chip cookie.
- Tastes pretty regular.
(crunching)
- Good.
- Okay.
(crunches)
It's okay. Yeah, it tastes pretty good.
- All right, I'ma go for it.
(crunching)
I taste something weird.
- It's really grainy. It tastes like a granola bar.
- Let's just do it.
NO! (snickers)
Aah! (whimpers)
Nothing? This just tastes like a cookie.
- It has a weird aftertaste.
- I thought you guys were gonna give me a full-on cricket
and be like, "There you go. Have at it."
- (Finebros) You just tried a sweet version of those little guys.
- No way. They're in it.
- (Finebros) Think you're ready to take them on face to face?
- Guys, I hate bugs.
- Right when I thought you guys were being nice to me.
I am not interested.
- I'm not doing that! No!
No, I will not eat this bug! I refuse!
- Aaaagh... aah-HA! I touched it!
No, I quit. I can't! I can't do it!
Lookit, there's legs on there!
- This is for you.
Ugh, god.
Mm. Mm.
Oh! Ooh!
- Okay, which one looks the least disgusting?
YOLO.
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
(crunching)
- Guh!
- (hacks) Okay, I did it. Take those away.
- I don't want to do this!
(crunches)
Ugh!!
- I like, I feel the guts in my mouth. That's so gross.
- I just feel little legs and wings like, (grumbles)
- It was not that bad actually.
I'm liking this aftertaste right now.
- Definitely better than I thought it was gonna taste.
I'm pretty proud of myself, actually.
- (Finebros) Congratulations. You just ate crickets.
- Yes!
- Victory! I feel so accomplished with my life!
- (Finebros) Crickets can be eaten whole
but also can be grounded into flour
and used for a variety of smoothies, oatmeal,
or even baked goods like the cookies you had.
- Okay, so there was no whole cricket in there.
- It's kinda creative, 'cause I couldn't tell.
- Cookies? Those are like-- it's like a little safe haven.
And when you put smushed-up crickets in there,
that ruins the entire safe little bubble you had for cookies.
And now I can't trust anything.
- What's the upside versus just regular flour?
- (Finebros) Some people believe crickets
are the future of protein,
an eco-friendly alternative to livestock and a sustainable way
to feed the over 7 billion people on Earth.
- No! No, no, no, no.
- Moving to alternatives that we can farm.
So effectively and efficiently, space-wise, might be a good idea.
- People put so many GMOs and stuff in their body
that a cricket's natural,
so I'm sure they'll be fine with eating this as their protein.
Just not me.
- (Finebros) Lastly, do you recommend people try crickets?
- I do.
- I would not.
- 0 out of 10 don't recommend.
- Please don't.
- Try 'em. That aftertaste-- beautiful.
- HELL no!
- Yes.
I did it once, and I can say that I did it, and I'm happy.
- Try it as flour, because the cookies were just like
(kisses) baked goods.
All cookies are great.
- Thanks for watching the very first episode of Teens vs. Food
on the React channel.
- Put your mouths over the Subscribe button and "cricket."
- Bye, guys. Can I get another one of those cookies?