Chapulines - "Grasshoppers"

A picture is worth a thousand words!
As hard as it is to imagine or believe-- grasshoppers are a great delicacy in Oaxaca con tortillas y limón y sal, like a taco. We had been looking forward to actually finding them and MAYBE eating some after fortifying ourselves with enough cervezas . . . . suddenly, while minding our own business in the market appeared a woman carrying a large basket of "something red" and asking us if we wanted to try it. As politely as possible we asked her, ¿Qué es?, and her response was "chapulines". "Ohhhhhh!" Although we tend not to eat from on the streets-- there we were trying chapulines without cervezas.

(fyi, they come in various sizes and we ate the tiny ones-- visible at the back of the photo. No amount of beer could have encouraged us to have eaten the large ones that actually look like creatures.)