[quote="PrincessKiara"]He learned to like them, I think. When he first tried them, he must have thought they were gross (and probably tasted bad) but being unable to hunt for himself, he had no choice but to eat bugs like Timon and Pumbaa. They may be slimy, but at least they filled him up. (Bugs are also very high in protein!)[/quote]
That would explain why he won the snail-slurping contest so easily. By the time Simba became a teen, he had already acquired a taste for gross, slimy grubs.
