I am really surprised this is just now being brought up. I find it funny for two reasons, the obvious one that you mentioned...plus she looks funny walking around like that in a clean bright shirt. LOL

 

The worms were in Alexandria..................where they have plenty of food too. Lol

I think it was more of a test for Lydia. That or just displaying her weirdness.

 

Oh crap, I meant Hilltop.

That gif still makes me laugh when I watch it. That poor dog is getting bitch slapped. LMAO

 

I think Lydia ate the worm because it was still early in her stage of discovery. It was just too hard for her to believe that such a community like Hilltop exists after years of lies from Alpha. In her defensive/survival mode, the safest surest food source is the worm. So, she was still living in her own world. Unlike Negan, when Negan got out from the jail, he snapped a tomato from ASZ's garden to eat.

Regarding Lydia's walker walk, I think it is exactly because she was not wearing a mask, making her vulnerable to the walkers' recognition. So, she walked like a walker to hide among other whisperers. Looking from a distance, her walker walk will not make her standing out as a human. She would look like a freshly turned walker, just like the young guy who will get arrowed by Daryl in the preview. I imagine, this kind of walk will only work when you are further away from a walker. If a walker is too close, you will still be identified as a human food.

 

Agreed. Basically she grew up living a certain life, walking like a walker and eating things like worms. So she was just doing what comes natural to her.

 

Maybe after you get used to it, a worm is just like any other snack?

I mean, like sour cream & onion crickets...

 

I have to rewatch but IIRC, Lydia only walked like a walker when she was marching with the herd. Once she was back to the whisperers' base camp, she walked normally.

 

Without even reasoning it out (the fact that whisperers and Hilltop both have legit foods available), I just thought the worm-eating scene was kinda dumb - like it was done just for shock/effect.

 

Yeah but they all did.

 

Could it be that Lydia had already started to like Henry and she was testing his reaction to eating worms to gauge how well he might fit in with her group? If he was totally grossed out he might not be able to live like her people but he didn't freak or make her feel bad and actually ate one himself. She saw possibilities perhaps since at that point she was convinced that settlements like Hilltop alway fell.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking. She was testing him.

 

Award worthy end credit song for the worm episode. This is too good.

 

You are presuming they always have access to game and apples. Even Daryl ate a worm a few seasons back when there was no food to be found.