A Desert Delicacy

"We simply deep-fry them in vegetable oil. Then they are ready to be eaten as a snack," Esther Daniel, who sells fried locusts in Maiduguri town, explains.

"We make a powder of salted hot chilli which we call yaji. You eat the locust by dipping it in the yaji."

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"We eat them because they taste good and they are nutritious. In fact, they taste like shrimps," says Judith Passo, a self-confessed locust eater.

"The hind legs are the tastiest part. They are the ones that actually make people call the locusts 'desert shrimps'."

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Why do I have a sudden craving for fried locusts?