In ancient Greece, the Centaurs also found beetle larvae delicious.

In ancient Greece, cicadas were considered luxury snacks. And even the Romans found beetle larvae to be scrumptious.Why have we lost our taste for bugs? The reason for our rejection is historical,and the story probably begins around 10,000 BC in the Fertile Crescent, a place in the Middle East that was a major birthplace of agriculture.Back then, our once-nomadic ancestors began to settle in the Crescent.And as they learned to farm crops and domesticate animals there,attitudes changed,rippling outwards towards Europe and the rest of the Western world.