It will never be said that they look too good to eat. But that isn't stopping the stream of orders for edible chocolate creepy-crawlies made to look like real beetle larvae and caterpillars.
Komatsuya Honten, the Akita-based confectioner that makes them, can't keep up with demand since a news report about the tasty bugs — made of dark and white chocolate and orange peel — was posted Jan. 19 on Yahoo Japan.
One fan of the icky sweets posted an eager message on 2Channel, Japan's largest Internet forum: "This is so real and weird . . . but I want them!"