Red ants and their eggs are prized

Red ants and their eggs are prized trophies in a number of Thai dishes.

Blindfold a person, feed them a bite of red ant larb, and they will usually say it's delicious.

But unfortunately, it's purely the idea of eating ant eggs that's to blame for most people's revulsion.

Why some people love it: Red ants eat mango leaves so their bodies taste like a squirt of lime. Their eggs, on the other hand, are fatty, like precious morsels of rich butter.