A bellowing, villainous laugh set the mood as a group of students consumed cupfuls of dried, dead crickets.
Kevin Bachhuber, founder of Big Cricket Farms — the first food-grade cricket farm in the United States — was the source of both the crickets and the laugh.
“Watching people eat bugs I give them has given me a chance to really work on my villain laugh,” Bachhuber said.
Colleen Clayton-Dippolito, a professor at Youngstown State University, invited Bachhuber to speak to her composition class on Thursday.