[where's_the_Outrage?]

Having lived in Thailand for several years, I've tried some bugs (based on the philosophy "when in Rome"), but was not converted. Thai girls are often referred to as bug eaters, based on the food carts:

[crusty old prospector]

Mmm, love me some maggots and crickets. Not. I had a ribeye for dinner.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Those pictures are more appealing than the piles of dead insects for sale I saw in a local Bangkok market in 2008.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In 1969 Utapao AFB we would catch rice bugs attracted to the big lights used at night to illuminate the aircraft.
The locals would pay a “Baht” (5 cents) for each female bug. They did not want the males and could tell by the smell what they were.
From what others said (I did not see it) they would bite off the end of the bug and suck out the rice in the bug.

Only bugs I ever ate was in the chow hall at Beale AFB in California. They had a nice display of salads and condiments which were really good with little bumps on them. Then one day I realized those “bumps” were gnats all over the food. I suddenly quit eating salads as a result.