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I imagine it’s like “The US tradition of eating bull testes”. It took me a lot longer than 5 years before I heard about that one, and I suspect you’d get a similar reaction offering those “oysters” to a random US citizen without couching it in euphemism.

80% of modern countries still practice entomophagy. It seems likely that being grossed out by eating insects is a Western cultural export

It wasn't too long that people saw eating lobsters as if they were eating cockroaches. Likely tastes similar too

Lived over there for 12 years and watched one of their standard TV documentaries about mixing wasps into rice and eating it. I was a bit surprised and asked my Japanese friends about it, and naturally they were disgusted, but were aware of the specific prefecture with that particular eating culture.

Wasps are new to me too, but grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce and sugar are speciality of Nagano