MUSEUM VENDING MACHINE SELLS SNACKS MADE FROM INSECTS

The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a vending machine that dispenses only snacks made from insects. The machine, located in the hall’s Cockrell Butterfly Center, includes chips made from ground cricket flower and lollipops made from bugs encased in candy. The machine has made “quite a lot of money.”
* They have a similar machine down at the bait shop that also does very well.
* If I want candy with bugs in it, I’ll buy from the vending machine here in our building, thank you very much.
* You know, if we start eating bugs this could change everything about the mosquito problem.
* Instead of sitting out in the yard slapping mosquitoes they’d be known as light snacks.
* “Timmy, I don’t have time to get your lunch ready for school today. Just go out in the recess yard and eat some ants.”
* Relax. According to Layla Eplett at the Scientific American Guest Blog: “an individual probably ingests about one to two pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs each year without even knowing it.” Oh, and sorry if you didn’t know that before.
* Would it help if I told you the vending machine insects are washed before they’re used for snacks?
* Everyone of these “eating insects” stories features crickets. I want someone to man up and eat a centipede.
* Oh, you don’t like those? How would you feel about nibbling on a tarantula?