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I recently got a chance to see the classic Disney animated film “The Lion King” on the big screen and I did have a visceral reaction to one sequence in particular: the bit where Timon and Pumbaa educate Simba in the culinary delight that are bugs. This scene — the slurping of worms, the chomping on slugs, the slimy (yet satisfying) mouthfuls of insect wings— is quite revolting.

So, imagine a live-action, special-effect-less, non-fiction human version of that bug-eating sequence, only instead of lasting for three minutes it lasts for approximately seventy.

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