I said yesterday that the fried grasshoppers (chapulines) tasted like bagoong, shrimp paste. And they do taste salty. But they also taste a lot like rose hips. Go figure. Must be their healthy vegetarian diets. The mamey fruit, with its firm, bright orange flesh, does taste sweet, and somewhat like papaya. But even more, mamey tastes almost identical to the Canadian dessert known as "date squares".