I hadn't seen it that way before (and I've done my share of thinking about entomophagy and food taboos); very interesting.

I had oversimplified it to be about Americans' belief that food is sterile, and the association with insects in food with contamination.

One day while working in a cafe I discovered that a yellow jacket had crawled into a flavor syrup bottle nozzle and died. I had to make a judgment about whether the syrup was contaminated or not. Then I realized that we also had honey...