On my trip to Bucaramanga, I learned that toasted ants are a popular delicacy amongst the locals there (and have been gaining global popularity). However, I didn’t get the chance to actually see them while I was there. So Maria brought back some with her when she came back. My first reaction was that the ants were humongous. Way bigger than any other ants I’ve ever seen before. After summoning up some courage to give them a try, I picked up an ant and bit into it. Surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad. The ants are heavily salted and crunchy so which pretty much masks any other “ant” flavor that you might be expecting to taste.
Reading about it some more, I came across this:

The people of sun-soaked northern Colombia have been eating ants for
centuries. They believe the accurately named “hormiga culona”—big-butt
queen ant—is everything from a natural form of Viagra to a protein-rich
defense against cancer. http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/ap_060813_eat_ants.html