Insect Food
Have you ever eaten insects?
昆虫食
My hometown of Aichi Prefecture don’t have a culture of insect food, while those living in Nagano Prefecture where now I live sometimes eat locusts and hachinoko(which means bee larvae).
虫を食べたことはありますか？
In fact, cooked locusts and bee larvae are sold in grocery stores.
私の故郷の愛知県ではそういう文化はありませんでしたが、今住んでいる長野県ではイナゴや蜂の子が時々食べられています。
I have an experience of eating such insects, but the taste wasn’t too bad.
実際、調理されたイナゴや蜂の子がスーパーで売られています。
However, only the taste of silkworms was hideous for me, so I will never eat them again.
私もイナゴや蜂の子を出されて食べたことがありますが、意外と普通の味でした。
In the former Nagano Prefecture, since these insects were valuable protein sources, eating them was very important.
ただし、蚕だけは苦手な味で、もう食べたいとは思いません。
