What Pairs With Beetle? Startups Seek to Make Bugs Tasty

News Tribune ^ | Jul. 27 2021

[nickcarraway]

Tiziana Di Costanzo makes pizza dough from scratch, mixing together flour, yeast, a pinch of salt, a dash of olive oil and something a bit more unusual — ground acheta domesticus, better known as cricket powder.

Di Costanzo is an edible insect entrepreneur who holds cricket and mealworm cooking classes at her West London home, where she also raises the critters in a backyard shed with her husband, Tom Mohan.

Her startup, Horizon Insects, is part of Europe's nascent edible insect scene, which features dozens of bug-based businesses offering cricket chips in the Czech Republic, bug burgers in Germany and Belgian beetle beer. The European Union headquarters in Brussels is also backing research into insect-based proteins as part of a broader sustainable food strategy.

[monkeyshine]

[Political Junkie Too]

My post was a rebus.

-PJ

[wildcard_redneck]

"Stop trying to get me to eat bugs. "

In the Great Reset "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy about it - and eat bugs!

Yay!

[wildcard_redneck]

Dang, your comment beat me to the punch.

[Calamari]

Habanero Sauce.

Should be hot enough that all you will taste is fire!

[monkeyshine]

Went right over my head. A reference to Savoy Truffle?

[Political Junkie Too]

Nope.

-PJ

[monkeyshine]

Of course! So silly of my, but BB was a little before my time.

[Political Junkie Too]

I read them when I was a kid at summer camp in the 1960s.

-PJ

[DuncanWaring]

Or eggs for breakfast. ;-)

[oldasrocks]

Just finished a 4 egg omelet with green pepper, jalapeno pepper, pepper jack cheese, American cheese, and touch of soy paste. No bugs.

[Joe 6-pack]

This is my favorite edible bug...

[DuncanWaring]

You really think chickens don’t eat bugs at every opportunity?

[JD_UTDallas]

City folk have never seen what chickens will do if turned into a cow patch with fresh cow paddies on the ground. They will absolutely destroy those paddies digging for maggots and the flys in/on them. Followed up by hogs that will eat every scrap of the cow paddie with a vengeance. Animals only see protein and carbs they could care less if it’s another animal’s waste.