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Mexican prehispanic meal of crickets and vegetables

Imagine sitting at a restaurant and asking to be served some hot grasshopper cake and a cold glass of juice.

Or request to be offered crickets muffin, a piece of termites biscuit and hot lemon tea, or better still, order for a chapatti baked by sifted flour from lake flies.

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