Strange Food Encounters #3 – Bugs in Oaxaca, Mexico – Daily Photo

You new this series of food encounters would have to get to this topic eventually. It was one thing to run into vendors in the marketplaces in Oaxaca selling bugs for food (crickets I think) and quite another one to be offered to share a dish of bugs, chilies and onions on a bed of guacamole and cheese. I don’t know if the dish had any particular “buggy” like flavor as the overwhelming sensation was that this dish was spicy. I am not sure if they would have needed to cook the bugs first with the number of chilies in this dish. But seriously, other than having to floss out an antennae or two I don’t know that the experience was as strange as I might have expected.