Eating bugs

Had a fascinatating conversation with a grad student last night about eating insects.  I told her that I has eaten a caterpillar, and she asked if it was one of  the brown ones or the black thorny ones.  I said "what???"   She said "oh you would have known if they were the black thorny ones, because they poke you on the way down your throat!"   Ew!!!

Then she went on about the culinary delicacies related to grasshoppers and flying termites, which apparently, are especially delicious in December.