Crunchy
Snacks
Personal Experience by Katya Wilhelmy
I used to think that eating food that is
not of our culture was really gross and
not fetch, like eating raw animal meat.
One day my dad brought us some
weird packages with “snacks” he used
to eat when he was young. I didn’t
notice that the tag had an
announcement that said “energy 100%
guaranteed”, but when I did I couldn’t
figured out why a small plastic bag can
contain protein to keep you awake all
day long. The odor that the plastic bag
expelled was unusual, then I opened it.
I got scared when I saw a four hundred
insect legs pointing to my face. I
screamed, really loud, how could my
dad imagine I would eat that? I threw
away the package and the thing went
worse, because one hundred
grasshoppers came out of the bag and I
had to clean them up.
A few hours later my sister came into
my room with a plate. She eats chips
really often, so I thought she was eating
some of them with lemon juice and hot
sauce. I was wrong. When she brought
closer the plate I saw the grasshoppers
swimming in hot sauce I was disgusted
with that image.
But what is life if you don’t take any
challenge, what is life if you don’t try
something new? So I did something
unexpected, I took one of those spicy
insects and put it in my mouth, the
crunchy shelter thunder in my palate.
As I was chewing I imagined millions of
alive grasshoppers on my tongue. I
finished that
unusual
snack
thinking
that I was
such a girl
and it
wasn’t that
bad.