in article , Hairy
Antelope at wrote on 23/2/04 3:31 PM:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:04:46 +0200, you , "Opinicus" >,
> wrote:
>
>> Don't be too quick to laugh. A google search on "diet of worms" fetches up,
>> inter alia
>
> "Mopane Worms" http://hjem.get2net.dk/arne_larsen1/58mopan1.html
>
> Not quite the same as the 'earthwormy' kind of worm, being as it's
> actually a caterpillar... but just as yucky ....

Thinking of creepy crawley things that aren't quite worms...witchety grubs.
The aborigines (of Oz) eat them as bush tucker - raw, maybe even alive.

Never tried it but some whitefellas say it's pretty good, such as Major Les
Hiddens, the Bushtucker Man, who had a cooking programme on the ABC about
how to find and cook the food aborigines ate.

J