there’s “Wait, I’m eating worms.”
Mopane worms are the sort of thing
where even people in Soweto would
be like, “Eh...no.” They’re these
spiny, brightly colored caterpillars
the size of your finger. They’re
nothing like escargot, where
someone took a snail and gave it a
fancy name. They’re fucking worms.
They have black spines that prick
the roof of your mouth as you’re
eating them. When you bite into a
mopane worm, it’s not uncommon
for its yellow-green excrement to
squirt into your mouth.
For a while I sort of enjoyed
the caterpillars. It was like a food