By: Sophie Ma

On Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Colorado, Swift broke into a coughing fit during her Evermore set, just as she was moving into her song Tolerate It. Swift turned away from the crowd and said that she’d accidentally swallowed a bug that had flown into her mouth. She tries to laugh it off after coughing.

“Delicious.” Swift declared about the surprise snack. The crowd laughed as she showed a bit of embarrassment, smiling, and asked if there was “any chance that none of you saw that?”.

“It’s fine, it’s all, it’s- I’ve swallowed it,” Swift told the crowd and assured them that she’s alright.

“So I’m just gonna try not to do as many of those,” Swift says, “This is gonna happen again tonight. There’s so many bugs. There’s a thousand of them. Anyway, this has been fun.”

The video of Swift swallowing a bug was posted on social media and many fans expressed jokingly that they were jealous of the bug. “Can you believe A BUG went to the Eras tour AND met Taylor Swift and I DIDNT????,” one fan tweeted.

However, this moment does give fans a chance to see that even stars like Taylor Swift experience these things. Just like Swift, many common people have eaten bugs, either by accidentally inhaling them or eating them in our food.

“We have to learn to live with them (bugs), even if it means swallowing them sometimes.” Jeremy Grant, an etymology professor at the University of Tennessee, says.

In fact, there’s no harm in eating bugs. Humans ingest them quite often, actually, and it’s completely harmless. Even if people were to have allergic reactions to some bugs, they would have to digest a fairly large amount for any reaction. People who are allergic to shrimp and lobsters are more likely to be allergic to bugs, but generally? It’s just a surprise snack and a bit of extra protein.

Swallowing a bug happens often to people, but of course, Swift’s encounter with a bug made it on the news. Despite the interruption, Swift handled it nicely and even gave her fans a laugh with it.