"Tarantulas are tasty...like lobster."

I've never intentionally eaten a bug. Okay, I chewed Bubble Yum bubble gum because it had spider eggs in it (it really didn't), but I've made it this long without eating bugs that nothing short of nuclear fallout creating cattle-sized worms that taste like a Porterhouse steak is going to get me to eat them now.

Muscatine [Iowa] librarians issue challenge: Read and we'll eat bugs

[Betty] Collins, along with teen librarian Tina Miksch, said they will eat bugs if area children and teens read 15,000 books in the library's "Go Buggy for Books" summer reading program.
The duo are discussing menus items such as pasta sprinkled with meal worms, but they're still firming up their plans.
She and Collins are taking suggestions for the types of bugs they might eat, but they reserve the right to make the final call.
"We draw the line at roaches and wasps," said Collins. "But we've heard that tarantulas are tasty."
Miksch smiled and added, "Kind of like lobster."

"I never ate a bug that big before," says Steve McQueen in the movie Tom Horn when he looks down at the lobster on his plate. But he seemed game to eat it, since everyone else was ready to chow down on theirs.

But I'm not eating bugs. Not ever. Not even if Pizza Hut comes up with the TarantuLovers pizza and throws in free CinnaSticks. Not even to promote reading: I don't care if you kids never read again.

You wanna do something to promote reading like a normal person, follow the lead of the Library Gremlin and get an ant farm, which I think is pretty cool. Unless she's planning to stick a straw in the thing and suck all the ants out, shoot them onto a cracker, and chomp on them. Then I'm calling the police.