article_snippet: Toasted leafcutter ants, oven-baked tarantulas, waxworm potato fritters, bees, beetles, crickets, worms, caterpillars, scorpions, wax moth larvae, and grubs - in many places, and not always intentionally .
article_snippet: Rats are, in contrast – and after you overcome any squeamish cultural bias - rather tasty, especially the big boys eaten in Africa, where Rats're called 'grass cutters,' an appealing appellation doubtless bestowed by the branding consultant who renamed the Patagonian toothfish as 'Chilean sea bass' and the slimefish as 'orange roughy.' 
article_snippet: The locals skin the rodents, split the rodents down the middle, spread the rodents out flat, and roast or grill the rodents.
article_snippet: Each tastes exactly like what it ate.
article_snippet: If it lived in a cane field, it tastes like sugar. '
article_snippet: Unfortunately, the elephant dung beetle I ate in Kenya smelled exactly like what the elephant dung beetle I ate in Kenya ate, but I overcame this olfactory impediment with a liberal application of insect repellant under my nose.' '
highlights_snippet: The author has eaten anteater roadkill, rats, dung beetles, snake, caramelized fish hatchlings and  oven-baked tarantulas .
  