Your field assistant has accidentally become an amazon woman

Perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to make any descisions for myself while in tropical climates.  We were hiking up to the 1993 lava flow on Arenal Volcano and were mired in the middle of a thick patch of forest.  Our guide Donald bent down and poked at termite mound until the creatures swarmed up onto his hand.  Normally, I would have begun preparing myself for the inevitable.  Costa Rican guides like to shock Americans.  He held out his hand and said, "Have a termite."  Unfortunately, I said "Okay," and quickly consumed two!  It was as if my brain failed to receive and reject that proposition.  I think it must have hit my spinal chord and then bounced right back to my hand.Termites taste like wet earth, not carrots.  I would eat them if I was hungry.