UConn food truck tries cricket taco garnish

A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up crickets, reports The Daily Campus.

The university's dining services is touting the insects as organic, not genetically modified and earth friendly. The Food for Thought truck is offering a small plastic container of the whole-roasted insects—enough to be a garnish on the truck’s tacos--for 99 cents.

About two to three orders are sold per day, UC’s dining services area assistant manager, John Smith, told The Daily Campus.

“Some people do get them as a topping, some get them for the protein, some for the ‘wow factor’ of having these things. I think people are just surprised we have them,” Smith said.

Check out the full story about UC’s new topping at The Daily Campus.