Made with real digger wasps – yup, nothing but the best – Japanese wasp crackers have caused quite a buzz among insect epicures. Made using wasps hunted by elderly gents in the woods near the town of Omachi, they’re baked by the tray-full and distributed by a wasp lovers club. Confused? We were. Still, this is Japan, so a wasp fan club shouldn’t shock you any more than a man being dragged around by his unmentionables for some bizarre game show.
Taste-wise, the wasp club president passed on the easy option of saying they were just like chicken, instead opting for the enigmatic, if rather unhelpful, “It's hard to explain, you really just have to taste it yourself.” Wishy-washy waspy. Each rice cracker contains five or so of its insect ingredient, which are first boiled in water. But the big question on everyone’s lips is: are there stings in their tails? Apparently yes, but they're not harmful to humans, especially when pressed in hot iron cracker cutters.
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