Salted, they are eaten just like that, as a snack, or boiled up with a tomato relish. The Ndebele people call them 'macimbi' and they love them to bits. Well, we made a deal at our table that we would all eat a worm, to qualify for the 'been there, done it' certificate to show the folk back home. I nominated myself as the bearer of the bowl, so that I could pick out the 'juniors', and then the serious stuff began. At the first attempt some managed to get it past their lips, only to less than politely spit it out on the side plate, and some managed to keep it in the mouth.
Truth is, it's pretty disgusting.
And with a bigger, fatter worm, please. Perhaps I've become a little more 'Getaway-ish' after all. Oh, how I have fallen 5. Swallowing my pride in Zimbabwe 6. Under the giant wild fig of Chengeta 7.