Insects as food are pretty common here, fried crickets with salt and lemon are delicious, there's also escamoles (ant larvae) which are super expensive but totally worth it.
Chinicuiles aren't slimy at all once you toast them a bit, they're slightly soft on the inside but none of that slimy-goo-dripping-out-them kind of thing , they're salty and crunchy, so eaten by themselves, it's like eating a crisp. When added to other stuff they replace salt and add a bit of smokey flavour.
I've seen some restaurants in other countries use crickets instead of meat for hamburgers, and even as flour for cakes and other stuff, always thought those uses were kinda weird, but I guess you need to find a "friendly" way to present this kind of stuff to people not used to it.