Eating Teylu - anyone else tried eating insects?

[Niri Te]

When I lived in Samoa, I would on rare occasions, eat Pololo, which is a type of marine worm that lives in the corals of the South Pacific. One day each year, they leave their corals, and come to the surface to mate during the full moon night of November, (summer in the Southern Hemisphere). ALL the Samoans, are in the water, which looks in the moonlight like it is boiling, with nets, and 5 gallon buckets, to get enough to freeze for the next year. The first year that I was there, I flipped out the Family that I lived with, (and later legally adopted me), by when I was walking out of the waist deep water to handoff the full buckets, and get two empties, I scooped up a handful of the writhing Pololo, and ate them. My brother to be, looked at me, slapped me on the shoulder, and said "you are one of US now".
They really taste good, I loved them, we would fry them up with eggs in the morning.They taste like Shrimp.
Niri Te

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Never had any. Will one day when I have a chance.

How about next week then?

I'm going to be cooking some Zophobas morio larvae ("superworms") at the meetup for anyone who is interested.

Originally Posted by Niri Te

When I lived in Samoa, I would on rare occasions, eat Pololo, which is a type of marine worm that lives in the corals of the South Pacific. One day each year, they leave their corals, and come to the surface to mate during the full moon night of November, (summer in the Southern Hemisphere). ALL the Samoans, are in the water, which looks in the moonlight like it is boiling, with nets, and 5 gallon buckets, to get enough to freeze for the next year. The first year that I was there, I flipped out the Family that I lived with, (and later legally adopted me), by when I was walking out of the waist deep water to handoff the full buckets, and get two empties, I scooped up a handful of the writhing Pololo, and ate them. My brother to be, looked at me, slapped me on the shoulder, and said "you are one of US now".
They really taste good, I loved them, we would fry them up with eggs in the morning.They taste like Shrimp.
Niri Te

*Palolo

The species is Palola viridis. The genus Palola belongs in the phylum annelida, the segmented worms, which also includes leeches and earthworms.

However, worms are not insects, and many other non-european/western cultures also eat them.