Posted on 04/08/2024 3:01:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new restaurant in Finsbury Park boasts burratas, rarebit and tacos – all made with crickets. But is insect protein really the future?
With jaunty yellow branding, moody lighting and the promise of ‘small plates’, Yum Bug, a new restaurant in Finsbury Park, north London, might be any trendy rollout. In fact, it is one of a kind. Yum Bug advertises itself as ‘Britain’s first permanent edible insect restaurant’. Rather than lamb, tofu or fish, Yum Bug uses crickets for its protein. Inside, brave pioneers eat dishes including Welsh rarebit made with minced cricket, burrata with whole roasted crickets, even pulled cricket tacos. For pudding there might be cricket with ice cream.
‘The message is that this is just good food,’ says Leo Taylor, one of Yum Bug’s founders. ‘We want people to have a good time over a few drinks and delicious food. The more we can get people doing that, the more we can get people walking away thinking, “Actually, I can have that for tea. I can’t perceive any difference.”’
Taylor, whose co-founder is Aaron Thomas, an entomologist, says he got the idea from his childhood, which he spent in 12 different countries, many of them in Asia, following his father’s work in international aid. Long term, they want to show that crickets can be a sustainable source of protein. They hope to sell the cricket meat wholesale, as a competitor to meat alternatives such as Beyond Meat. Unlike many meat alternatives, crickets are not processed: they only add seasoning and a bit of flour.
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Don’t take culinary advice from people who want to kill you.
No, it’s not.
It’ll be a curry joint in 6 months.
Feel free. It’s beef for me.
“Insect dining,” AKA “eat ze bugz.”
Think Tyson// Jimmie Sean/ Sarah Lee/ Ball Park/ Hillshire Farms? Old Philly/ Aidell’s
Not in the metmom family.
My chickens eat crickets.
Only a heartless monster would snatch food from their little beaks.
Sure, that bus is just taking you to the grocery store. Sure it is.
And you’ll be home for dinner. Sure you will.
I want roast suckling cricket with a teeny-tiny apple in its mandibles.
You’re probably correct
‘1984’ - no longer just a book and a movie
first they try to make it look fun, cool, hip, and good.
Next, they nudge you
Next they force you at bayonet point.
Always progressing to the glorious revolution.
People will Raise rats , guinea pigs or rabbits for food at home before they eat BUGS
No, it’s not.
first they try to make it look fun, cool, hip, and good.
Next, they nudge you
Next they force you at bayonet point.
Always progressing to the glorious revolution.
just can’t wait for the Cockroach pupu platter with seaweed YUM!
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