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Susann Nordvik's avatar

The whole "eat the bugs, bigot," nonsense is so tedious. Deliberately eating bugs is for three situations: 1. You're a kid and you are testing boundaries or don't know any better; 2. You were just in a plane crash and it's either grubs or the dead pilot; or, 3. You are some savage or a bushman with no other source of protein. If you are not in one of these three categories, leave the bugs for other parts of the food chain and stop trying to be trendy.

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Melisa Idelson's avatar

I grew up in Mexico City, and moved to the US at age 21. When I brought my boyfriend home, years later, to meet my parents, we went to a restaurant specializing in indigenous cooking. My stepmom recommended we eat the “escamoles” which are ant eggs.

I refused, but my boyfriend, who wanted to impress my parents, agreed...he regrets it to this day 🤮

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