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- I have a feeling this is gonna be cream filled and I'm not looking forward to that. Tastes like dirt. Like moldy dirt. (bug crunching) (Coyote gagging) That tastes horrible. Ah. (Coyote gagging) Today, "Coyote Bites Back." We are in Thailand and I'm going to be trying a bug buffet. There are over 10 different insects and arachnids right here at this counter that I'm going to attempt to eat. Bamboo worms, fried pupae, grasshoppers, giant sized crickets, and then the creme de le creme, scorpions, centipedes, and tarantulas.
Now, we know that the centipede has been one of the most painful bites that I've ever gone through so it'll be really interesting today to actually try what a centipede tastes like. Oh, I'm gonna get a mango smoothie to wash these guys down. Actually, I'm gonna do mango and watermelon. All right, you gotta wash down your bugs with some fresh fruit juice. Let's go find a table and set up Coyote Peterson's ultimate bug buffet. Now, in honor of the late, great Justin Schmidt who created the insect sting pain index, I think it's only fair to rate these different bugs on a scale of one to four.
One being the most tasty and four being the least tasty. 'Cause with the insect sting pain index one is the least amount of pain and four is the most amount of pain. When we're talking the most amount of pain we've also gotta make it the grossest so we're gonna start off small with the pupae. This looks like just a slimy little jelly bean type thing right there. Here we go. Doesn't really taste like much of anything. Little mealy. Kinda tastes like a bad peanut. Oh, kinda dry. Not my favorite.
All right, we're moving on. Next is the caterpillar. Let's try that guy. Been stung by many caterpillars, have yet to eat one. (suspenseful music) That just kinda tastes like a pork rind. Little crunchy, not really juicy at all, thankful for that. All right, so we're gonna rank the pupae as just one. We're gonna rank the caterpillar as just a one as well. Easy to swallow, easy to digest.
Moving up from there, we're gonna go to the cricket. It's just a normal sized cricket. It looks plump. I have a feeling this one's gonna pop in my mouth like a gusher. (suspenseful music) Wow, surprisingly not bad at all. Kinda tastes like a dried mushroom. Could be worse. I give that a two. So, we've got a one, a one, and a two. Chewing it up's one thing, swallowing it down is definitely another. It's actually really kinda dry. You guys remember the mole cricket many years ago?
Finding mole crickets and catching one was actually much more complicated than I would have ever thought. So, there you have it, mole cricket. What in the world is mole cricket gonna taste like? Here we go. It's just a peanut, don't think about it. It actually kinda tastes like a pistachio. A rotten pasticcio. Oh, hold on a second. It's just a cricket, it's just a cricket. So, mole cricket, I'm gonna rank this a two as well.
We've got two ones and two twos. Kinda does have the consistency of peanut butter once you get it all mushed around. Next up, let's go for the cicada. Now, cicadas sometimes bloom out in massive quantities. Hundreds of millions of them and they're actually considered a delicacy every time you have a bloom of cicadas and a lot of people will actually fry these up in their own kitchen and eat 'em. Doesn't really smell like anything. Actually a little bit like a barbecue potato chip. Oh yeah, real crunchy, a little tart.
Oh, don't really like that one. Oh no, not at all. No, thanks. I'm gonna put that still at a two though. Tolerable but not exactly something I wanna eat on a daily basis. And this one we're used to seeing, probably right in your own backyard. That's a grasshopper, they call it locusts around here. Going in. (suspenseful music) I'm embracing my inner Bear Grills right now. Actually, that's the tastiest out of any of them. I'm gonna rank that as one. That tastes, that tastes like a peanut. Closest to a peanut that I've had so far.
Really not that bad. (suspenseful music) (bug crunching) (Coyote gagging) Now as we're moving into the second half of these bugs. Also a cricket but that's considered a super-sized cricket. Here we go. Wow. That one, believe it or not actually is the most tasty. It almost tastes a little bit like dried shrimp mixed together with potato chips.
Like, if you took a bunch of shrimp, mushed 'em together with potato chips and shoved it into an exoskeleton, that's what I'm getting a little bit of hint of right there. Now, I watched a couple food review shows out there. Best food review show ever, he eats some crazy stuff. I don't know how he does what he does but Sunny, I'm telling you, gotta try some of these bugs. You're gonna like these giant crickets. I don't know what that is. I don't remember what it said on the sign. So, I have to put it up there but that thing's absolutely huge.
Bear Grills would look at this and be like, vitamins, calcium, protein, just go for it, Coyote. Burping up insects over here. So, here you go, super-sized locust cricket critter going down the hatch. You guys ready? One, two, three. Ah. Least good out of any of 'em, for sure. That's a three. 100% a three. - [Mario] What makes it a three? - The taste is not good.
- [Mario] But what about texture? - Texture not good. It exploded in my mouth in a way that I really don't wanna explain right now but it is not good. - [Mario] It exploded in your mouth? - Uh huh. I'm holding my composure. You guys know I have a squeamish stomach. In the past all the videos that we've done where I've lost my lunch, trying to have that not happen with these bugs but that super cricket thing is pushing me close. - [Trent] Can you explain the texture of it? - The texture is like a peanut shell filled with boogers and a little bit of fat, cold fat.
Mixing it with iced coffee does not make it any better. Coming up next I've got two super-sized grubs. Now, the first time I ever saw Bear Grills eat a huge grub it was at least five times this size so I can't really feel bad about swallowing one of these. I've got two. This one right here that I would consider medium size and this one right here that I would consider a jumbo. I'm gonna go ahead and eat the jumbo. Oh, that's a leg. Okay, at least this doesn't have legs but I have a feeling this is gonna be cream filled and I'm not looking forward to that.
No better time than the present. Oh yeah. Very crunchy. Tastes like dirt. Bad dirt. Like moldy dirt. This is like if you'd have a really stale donut that somebody instead of putting cream filling in put a dirt filling in. It's like wet peat moss in my mouth. All right, I'm gonna rank this one as a three as well. This is not good. Have you ever hesitated to connect to a public WiFi network in a cafe, hotel, or airport for fear that someone might steal your information? Well, today's episode is sponsored by the solution, CyberGhost VPN. One of the best VPN services that encrypts your information and protects you while you browse the internet safely. With over 38 million users worldwide
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There's even a 45 day money back guarantee and 24/7 customer support for ultimate peace of mind. (upbeat music) And now, back to me eating some gross bugs. So, the plate of bugs has been conquered. Chopsticks down and we're getting into the big bugs. That is an emperor scorpion. I don't even know how to go about eating this scorpion. The body is kinda squishy. I'm just gonna go ahead and take it off of the stick. Oh. That is the emperor scorpion and to eat this I think, just like I've seen Bear do on "Man Vs Wild" you just I think kinda gotta go for it.
Now, I've worked with many emperor scorpions in the past but I never thought I'd actually be eating one and one of the first things that I ever did was actually the giant desert hairy scorpion sting. I've always had a problem with scorpions. They've always been creepy. Now it's my chance to get a little bit of a bite back. (bug crunching) Oh god. (suspenseful music) Oh, it's really sharp. Oh, a claw fell off. I don't even know how you're supposed to eat this.
It's just like eating bird seed. (Coyote gagging) It tastes terrible. It's terrible. That's a four. That's a four for sure. I don't know what was inside of that, looked like, the worst. Gotta wash it down, hold on. So far that is the worst thing I've put in my mouth. First thing I've had to spit out. Primarily because it was so sharp.
I didn't wanna swallow this down my throat. Feel like it would completely rip me up. They got music going in the background. They are building up the hype right now so that we can get to the 11th insect, the tarantula. (slow music) This is covered in urticating hairs. I'm a little bit worried about some of these hairs getting in my mouth and if you look at the fangs, take a good look at the fangs.
The fangs are absolutely massive. I imagine like the claws of the scorpion it's gonna be really hard to bite through that. So, I think I'm just gonna go for this put the whole thing in my mouth and try to chew it up. (slow music) Oh. (slow music) Oh god. (Coyote gagging) Uh. (slow music) Uh, can't do it, can't swallow it. Ah, can't look at it either. That's a five. If the scale's one to four, that's a five for sure.
Oh my gosh. The abdomen was full of something. When that exploded in my mouth I almost lost all the bugs. They would have been all over the table. I had to lose it. There it is. Ah. Ah, that's so bad. It's like rotten peanut butter. Oh, gotta wash it down. My mouth is full of hairs. I can feel all the hairs stuck into my lips. All right, we are up to our final arachnid. A giant centipede. Now, there's no question about it. In the past I have had a very sordid history with this creepy crawly.
One of the most painful bites I have ever taken and today I'm going to actually bite a centipede myself. (Coyote screaming) I'm just gonna kinda chomp on this like an ear of corn I guess but I'm gonna start with the head. All right, are we ready? Eating a centipede. This is gonna be gross. (centipede crunching) It's just like. Oh, it's like dried up pork skin. Oh, does not taste very good but the mandible's really sharp. Oh. Surprisingly, this one doesn't taste all that bad.
It's not nearly as bad as the tarantula. I'd probably only rank it as a two. (Coyote gagging) Oh god, the body's much worse, just kidding. (Coyote gagging) Nope, nope. Nope, that's a five. It's a five. I didn't realize there was all this disgusting meat inside. That tastes horrible. The head not a problem, just tastes like dried up pork skin, pork rinds maybe, and then I bit into the body. The body is absolutely awful.
(Coyote gagging) (slow music) Nope, nope, washing it down. (Coyote gagging) That is by far the worst one that I tried so far. I went from being like, oh centipede's not that bad to centipede being horrible. Look at the goop inside the middle of it. I got into that and all of a sudden I was like, oh wait. Oh, it smells terrible too.
Can't do it. Not eating any more. That's it, centipede, just like it's the worst bite, it also has the worst taste out of any of the bugs that we tried today. Oh, I almost lost it there. I almost literally puked up nine other bugs by eating a centipede. So, what did we learn? Eating bugs, while maybe entertaining, it's definitely not for me but I'm actually quite proud of myself that I managed to keep down nine of these bugs before getting to the three big ones, the scorpion, the tarantula, and the centipede and in honor of the late, great Justin Schmidt on the one to four ranking scale we pushed beyond four being the worst
and we got to five with the tarantula and whatever remains of this centipede being the grossest thing that I've ever tried to consume. I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave, stay wild. We'll see you on the next adventure. I think I need to go get another watermelon smoothie. Thanks again to CyberGhost VPN for sponsoring this video. With our link in the description you get their best deal ever, just $2.03 a month plus four months for free which is 84% off.
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