Want to seriously gross out your friends? Offer them a bag of Larvets Original Worm Snax. Yes, that’s worm –as in creepy crawly thing. This new snack is made of roasted beetle larvae (not to be confused with earth-worms) and comes in BB-, cheddar cheese or Mexican spice flavor.
It’s pretty hard to put the first one in your mouth. Tad T., 10, of Northfield, spent several minutes mustering the courage. Crunch. “It’s actually not that bad,” he said about a cheddar-flavored worm. And he thought the Mexican spice one had “a good taste.” This tasty (?) snack is made by Hotlix, a company in California (where else?) that raises its own worms. Hotlix also makes worm brittle and worm haystacks (that’s worms in chocolate).They sell for about 37 cents a bag. To order call 1-800-EAT- WORM.