Starvation-threatened Africans are being encouraged to eat insects by a UK aid initiative.

African caterpillars, migratory locusts and black soldier flies are on the menu under the initiative taking place in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo - but locals are rejecting the offer due to the taste and cultural norms.

Dr Alberto Fiore, the project lead who has whipped up a dish of locally farmed mopane worms, cereals, and fruits, has also created a insect-based porridge containing grains including sorghum and millets, which he reassured the Guardian is palatable.

  • whoami
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    2 years ago

    the only time I’ve eaten insects I ate chapulines (grasshoppers), in a mexican/oaxacan restaurant. They were fried, and seasoned with salt, lime and chili, so between the texture and the seasoning, I could have been eating any other fried snack.