No, not these Mexican bugs Grubstreet (good name for this story?) LA posts the following news bit today: Interested in eating insect tacos? If you live in the right Oaxacan-influenced neighborhood, you can buy chapulines by the bag and hope you fare better than Eric Greenspan in preparing the little hoppers. Or you can come…

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