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  Taste alone won't do it.  You'll need to make sure they also have a pleasing texture.  Not too dry and crispy with no "meat".  Not too slimy or gelatinous.  Tasting bad, of course, is a non-starter.  But tasting good is just one of several aspects that needs to be accomplished to result in frequent and happy consumption.
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  I agree with the "can" part of your argument. The "will" part is a whole other story. 
  If something tastes good and is safe to eat, people can most definitely get used to eating it. But good taste alone is not enough for society to get used to eating something. You could argue that almost anything edible can be made to taste good with enough salt, fat, and or sugar. The hurdle for bugs is that there is the cultural factor and psychological disgust factor that most people have on eating bugs.
  If there was some immense catastrophe that made bugs our only food option, bugs would quickly become part of every culture's food. 
  There just isn't enough of a widespread reason for people to eat bugs as opposed to what they're used to eating. Since there's no reason for it, people wont eat it, and thus won't get used to eating them. >
  
  OP is a commie >
  
  Bugs are not new, people have been eating them throughout history. 
  Thing is, as an area becomes wealthy, they stop eating them. Nobody's swapping back from a western diet to insects.
  Lobster isn't the same. Lobster may have raised its status, but it was always eaten, and scarcity lent it some status/price increases. Bugs are not generally going to be a scarce supply in the way that seafood can be, and thus cannot ever become a Veblen good in that fashion. >
  
  
  Nobody's swapping back from a western diet to insects
  
  I had a professor from Africa. He would light up every time he told us about growing up and eating locusts. >
  
  I have a coworker who talks fondly of the time his ~~day~~dad hit him because “He knew I’d gotta away with something, just didn’t know what”. 
  Just because someone has a found memory of something doesn’t mean it’s healthy. >
  
  When you don't have enough to eat, that which contains calories is likely to be healthy. I assure you that Americans are pretty much the last people to listen to regarding nutrition, considering our history. >
  
  Yes I'd agree...the local organic store by me has fried crickets and they're low cal/high protein and I love them. A bit too pricey, but still enjoyable every now and then. If Rogan had some dude on that said bugs are great for gains or some bs about Test levels, people would line up to eat bugs. 
  I don't think people should be forced to eat anything, but there's no way that the American diet is not partly due to influence and control by meat/diary industry. I love eating meat and different types of animals. It's weird online thing to be like they're going to force you to eat bugs. Like yeah I'd take bugs over whatever weird process foods exist in most stores. >
  
  The Dairy Council and the Meat lobby are amateurs compared to Big Sugar. Our entire medical system is still using the food pyramid dreamed up by cereal salesmen in the 1890's.