Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: In Africa also they eat live bugs. Cockroaches, dead or alive, anything. Once when we were in Zambia, there was this one African who was cleaning around the house, his name was David. He was about twenty years old. So we swept up his room because it was so filthy—I was there at the time. And there were all these cockroaches in a pile, and we were about to throw them out and he said, "What, you're throwing them out? You mean you're not going to eat them?" (laughter)
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: There was one big, big professor we met in the college...
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's hard to understand that prasādam is (indistinct). (laughter)
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Not only the Africans, but this big, big professor, she is advocating that people should eat the bugs because they are good protein. She is experimenting different bugs to eat—the worm, the cockroach, the beetle—and she's making a big study, being paid money, how to feed people by eating insects.
Hari-śauri: They're already doing that. In France, you can buy cans of chocolate-coated ants, grasshoppers, frog's legs, bumblebees, fried bumblebees you can get. The French eat the most abominable foodstuff.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The English think that way, anyway.
Hari-śauri: They all do.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The English think the French eat abominable foods.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: This is the modes of nature, Śrīla Prabhupāda, acting.
Prabhupāda: Kadarya bhakṣaṇa.