A trend I can’t get excited over: ant eggs, maguey worms, and grasshoppers,
Rodriguez and the other bug mongers of San Juan offer their wares as “pre-Hispanic” foods, a nod to the Aztecs, Mixtecs and other civilizations that flourished for millennia here on diets rich in grubs, grasshoppers and other edible invertebrates.
I embrace my Spanish roots – bring me steak, eggs, bacon and sausages!
Remember, before the arrival of Europeans, all the protein source in Mexico was very limited to reptiles, fish, dogs, and insects. Deer were strictly reserved for the elite.
I have tried fried chapulines [grasshoppers] in an Oaxaco market. Not bad.
That would be OaxacA.
[Burp!]