[Quiet Man Cometh]

Well, for one thing, horror and gross-out I'd consider two different things, so I wouldn't lump them together. Also, both of those depend quite a lot on what people have encountered before, I expect. I eat seaweed, so anything seaweed derived hardly bothers me. I don't eat insects but (if memory serves) more people in the world eat insects than beef or chicken, so that's nothing unusual either. I already knew the bit about gelatin, and my dad brines turkey all the time so salt solution is no big deal.