The New Food Trend: Edible Bugs

The New Food Trend: Edible Bugs

One Sticky Wicket

Le Thanh Tung picks up a fried cricket with his noodles at his farm in Ho Chi Minh city September 13, 2006. Breeders of crickets say the insects have became "fingers food for beer drinkers" in an age of increasing prosperity in Vietnam compared with the recent past when they might have been food for the hungry or for wartime soldiers surviving in the jungle.

REUTERS/Kham