Two in one. First, Ghost’s Sour Patch Kids energy drink, red berry flavor. It tastes exactly like the red Sour Patch Kids, with almost no sugar and almost no calories. Five out of five. It’s sour candy you can sip on for hours without the sugar guilt.
Then Val from Trippy Food brought hormigas culonas, Colombian leaf cutter ants. Every spring the females leave the nest to start colonies of their own, and in villages around Bucaramanga people catch them in nets, pull the wings off and roast them. They’re hard to get in the US. His brother-in-law Richard brought these back.
They’re crunchy and salty, somewhere between a cricket and a raisin, and they leave a bacon-flavored-popcorn taste behind. The legs are the problem; you have to chew through them. Val gave them a five, his favorite insect. The rest of us landed between two and three: one of the better bugs, but you’ll need water with them.
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