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 eat edible insect tacos for five dollars at Machine Project next Friday, during its "Bug Eat Bug" event.
Read more: Bug-Filled Tacos Crawl Over to Echo Park
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