“I had bought a candy store and decided to expand the line a bit,’’ he told me in a phone interview. The next round of flavors included a tequila-flavored sucker to which he added a worm as a final touch.
“It sort of took off as well,” he said. After a popular 1990 Newsweek profile, Hotlix began to create more insect-filled treats. The current line of products now includes sour-cream-and-onion-flavored “Crick-ettes” and scorpion brittle, among other things.
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Peterman says that Hotlix has a new item in the works: a gummy worm that’s naturally a lot more worm than gummy.
“They have a sweet-and-sour and dirt taste,” he said, with more than a little Willy Wonka in his voice.
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He says that the most of scorpions and other critters destined for consumption come from Hotlix’s own rural California insect farm. The remainder come from edible-insect growers around the world.
Peterman—who’s now mostly retired but still sits on the company’s board of directors—says that his edible insects don’t contain any preservatives. He wasn’t about to give away any of his trade secrets, but the answer to how you get a scorpion ready to be eaten was surprisingly straightforward.
“We bake them,” Peterman said.
The only other pre-processing is that the scorpions’ sharp and poisonous stingers—located at the tips of their tails—are clipped off.
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“[The FDA] told us that we didn’t have to,” Peterman said. “But we did just so people don’t get them stuck in the roofs of their mouths.”
There are some insects even Peterman won’t touch—he says light-colored insects tend to be more poisonous—but the main factors in determining an insect’s potential as a snack item are whether they can find a steady source and the amount of processing involved.
Peterman’s company sells “well into the seven figures” pieces of insect candy each year. “We can’t keep up with the demand,” he said. The marketplace has spoken, and it turns out that I was incredibly wrong about how many people are willing to suck on a scorpion or snack on mealworms.
The first lick—at roughly 1:15 a.m.—was pretty much as expected. A big blast of sugar and almost-banana flavor that wasn’t necessarily unpleasant. I guess that was my fault, though. It didn’t occur to me to actually check the label to see what flavor it was until after I bought it and got it back home. I just sort of assumed that yellow meant lemon.
Three or four more licks later my tolerance for suckers—banana or otherwise—had pretty much reached its limit, and I was still at least an hour away from the scorpion.
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