Finger-lickin’ good!
Ahah, aha! Thought Violet Crepuscular was just whistlin’ Dixie, didn’tcha? Like, who ever heard of eating millipedes? Why write about that?
Well fan my brow, Violet’s a mile ahead of us! The National Library of Medicine, an arm of the National Institute of Health–an official U.S. government agency–has reported on “Millipedes as Food for Humans” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945075/).
They admit that millipedes generate some stinking chemicals and that these “offensive secretions present a severe challenge for the spread of millipedes as an everyday food source.” Even if they cutesy it up by referring to them as “minilivestock.”
Yeahbut, yeahbut! The Bobo people of Burkina Faso, they eat millipedes! Well, hell, why didn’tcha say so up front? Hey, if it’s good enough for the Bobo people, what are we waiting for? I mean, if that doesn’t sell you on scarfing down millipedes, what will?
Anyway, all sorts of Real Smart People think us common people ought to eat more bugs–to Save The Planet, of course. Real Smart People don’t have to do it.
The day we see John Kerry chowing down on a bowl of millipedes… well, let’s just see if that ever happens.
