I don't know, maybe you just didn't have the really local experience. It seems insects are commonly eaten in many places, and I think it's possible your misint

I don't know, maybe you just didn't have the really local experience. It seems insects are commonly eaten in many places, and I think it's possible your misinterpretation of "insect food only in poverty" is a hangup from this sort of "imperialist cultural supremacy" that seems to be invoked by this topic... To riff a bit, not about you, but: sad really, maybe that real colonialism and imperialism has almost vanished in many places, the "descendents of the former subjects of the old colonial powers" and those who seek to ape their status, cling to these sort of last vestiges where they can lord their wrong ideas of cultural supremacy over "lesser peoples". Insect eating probably provides plenty of opportunities for those of such an imperial mind to turn plump with prideful glee that they have something really meaty to snack into about "how their own culture has made so much progress compared to these awfully-backward places". Back to what you said: I think consciousness of judgement by non-locals may play a role in masking that behavior in front of you?