Or is it she “Bizarrely documented”??
I love this quote of hers: “…the nutritional value of a bug is irrelevant if you can’t eat it.”
I still don’t know what to think about this strange tale.
One thing’s for sure (Darth Vader voice) “The Ick Factor is strong in this one.”
For seven days, I only ate grasshoppers, worms, and tarantulas. It was absolutely awful.
See, the truth is that I’m afraid of bugs. Deathly afraid. When I was seven, I became convinced that if I didn’t cover my face while I slept an earwig or a redback spider would crawl into my ear canal and lay eggs so I slept with a hand over my ear for years. And while don’t do that anymore, I’m now a vegan who is happy to kill spiders. They’re just ugly and hairy. They’re unnatural and I hate them.
Noma, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark, famously serves lobster mains with live ants. So I tried the next best thing for breakfast: black ants and Vegemite smeared on toast. My housemate Brad had a slice and revered the taste, saying: “This is next level woke!” Watching Brad eat the ants gave me a little confidence in the meal.
What I’d learned was that the nutritional value of a bug is irrelevant if you can’t eat it. I’d also discovered it was easier to tolerate starvation than the thought of bugs.
