College sells crickets as a light snack.

UConn's 'Food for Thought' food truck has decided to start selling a new high protein, yet low fat snack.

Roasted crickets.

Sold in small plastic containers for 99 cents, The Daily Campus newspaper reports that only two to three such containers are sold each day, as the squeamish factor hasn't entirely subsided yet.

UConn sources their crickets from Next Millennium Farms, which has an estimated 30 million crickets on hand at any given time. According to the newspaper, the farm carefully removes any dead or unhealthy* crickets before killing the rest and quickly roasting them.

In addition to being sold in containers, the crickets can be added as a topping to tacos sold from the food truck as well--which is probably more edible than anything coming from Taco Bell.

The school newspaper interviewed some folks who tried free samples of the crickets. Paula Wilmot, assistant director of the Honors Program and Learning Communities, became a fan.

“It reminds me of a veggie puff,” Wilmot said.

And that, my friends, is the first time in history a cricket has ever been likened to a veggie puff.



*How, exactly, in a sea of 30 million crickets do you distinguish which cricket is unhealthy? Dead I understand. It probably looks obvious that the poor little bugger (heh-heh) went to the great big garden in the sky. But unhealthy? Does the cricket have a cough? Is its chirp sounding a little wheezy? Does it get an MRI? How do we know?