In Barcelona, I gnawed on some cartilage-y, furry pig ears (not my fave TBH!).
And right here at home, my go-to snack issauerkrautbest eaten by the jarful.
To put it simply, I’m an equal opportunity foodie.
Nothing is off the table.
With all that in mind, I’ve always known that someday I would end up eating a bug.
That’s not to say that the idea of noshing on insect whets my appetite.
It very much doesn’t.
In countries likeMexicoandThailand, those grasshoppers I fear have long been considered delicacies.
Evenparts of Australia are starting to get onboard with bugs in an effort to be more eco-friendly.
It’s a win-win.
Still don’t think we’ll ever actually truly eat bugs?
Goodyear writes that just 20 years ago, you would have never seen sushi in the supermarket.
Now it’s all the rage.
And we actually already kind of have started embracing bugs.
Many health food stores now sell cricket flour.
You’ll never know you’re eating bugs (maybe).
What followed was…interesting.
Just kidding, they absolutely did not.
It’s fine guys, I WAS FINE.
Frankly, none of it tasted like bugs, it all just tasted like alcohol.
Which I was totally fine with.
“Throw back your drink,theneat the worm,” another guest said to me.
This is exactly what I did.
And then I chomped down.
And I kind of liked it.
So far, so good.
Which also ended up being pretty good!
Not my favorite bowl of bolognese ever, but definitely not bad.
The sliders looked like regular sliders, but they were most certainly not regular sliders.
I took one bite and got a mouthful of little cricket parts.
And let me just tell you, crickets are not easy to chew.
I spent a good 45 seconds to 1 minute chewing my one tiny bite.
Slowly I gnawed through little bits of exoskeleton and antennas…I’m getting goosebumps thinking about it.
Remember my complaint about how long the crickets took to chew?
It was so sticky and goopy and really, really not for me.
I quickly learned that I was really only comfortable eating bugs if they didn’t actually look like bugs.
Which is why I wasn’t able to take more than one bite of thiscookie.
He heated up the oil and the masses gathered around to watch.
Into the pot the scorpions fell one by onePV let them cook until they were crispy and browned.
The first thing I noticed: It was a little furrier than I would have liked.
For my first-ever buggy encounter, I consider this a mostly successful experience.
Will I eat bugs again?
And I think that this is the approach that will end up resonating with Western masses.
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