In China, it's perfectly normal to buy a scorpion on a stick and have lunch. We consider eating scorpions or spiders to be strange in this country. But if you go to John Lewis, they will sell them for you. They're doing it because it is weird and it's novel. I mean, the only reason we don't eat scorpions is because we don't have scorpions here. If we did, then it might have evolved into a food like ours in other countries. No, we have foxes and we don’t eat foxes.

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