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[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Like I don't object to the idea of this if they're labelling it and it's safe.

Yeah, it's the surprise crickets that are the problem for most people :D.

More importantly what's the shellfish/cricket allergy crossover?

They apparently have some of the same proteins as shellfish.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Huh interesting. Makes sense they'd mention it then! Better safe than sorry. Especially with how bad shellfish allergies can be.

But yeah here it's listed and I can't say I wouldn't give them a go for the novelty of trying it you know? Might even end up enjoying them.

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Huh interesting. Makes sense they'd mention it then! Better safe than sorry. Especially with how bad shellfish allergies can be.

Except I would never think to check a bag of cheese poofs to see if it would make my wife sick to eat, and I don't think she would either.

This cricket shellfish issue is news to me. Means cricket protein is off the table for us. Wife developed a shellfish/fish allergy relatively recently. Which is another issue, you may not be allergic now, who knows tomorrow.

[–]Nona_Biba 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The front of the bag says "sustainable." Might be wise to double check any new foods that use that word or claim to be more "green" than your average foodstuff. I'm sure eating crickets IS more sustainable than some other food, not knocking their claim, but if a food claims to be more environmentally friendly then they must have cut corners somewhere.