Achillides from North Korea

In Vietnam, at Haiphong, I ate pupae of some hymenoptera. In Xichuanbanna (South China), I was served a rather good dish of wasp chrysalis cooked with lemongrass.

Of course, in Mexico, I often drank tequila accompanied by grilled grasshoppers or fried caterpillars. It sounds pretty much like dried shrimp.

The worst experience took place in the island of Marajo in Brazil where my local guide was enthusiastic about the discovery, in a trunk of fallen tree, of large larvae of beetles that had to be tasted alive. To preserve my prestige of French (!!), I crunch the huge larva which curiously had a vanilla taste. Whatever may be the taste, I do not wish to repeat the experiment frequently. In the same country, the children are roasting the tarantulas, which they regard as sweets!

All this is only folklore. As everyone knows, food industries today are preparing steak dishes based on locusts or other insects rich in proteins and whose farming will produce less CO2 and methane in the atmosphere than the bovine American or Brazilian breeding stations largely responsable from global warming.