Could you handle eating at London's first Insect Bar ?

The flying mouse

London is welcoming its first Insect Bar next week, dishing up delicious meals made out of creepy crawlies :eek:

Liquid nitrogen insect ice-cream, cricket flour pasta and insect tofu will all be on the menu, as well as insect-infused cocktails.

To give you an idea of what to expect, here’s what UK food company Grub, who source and sell edible insects and are part of the pop-up Insect Bar, call “chimp sticks” – sticky caramel wrapped around a bed of nuts and kaffir lime leaves (all sounds fine, but wait for it) plus mealworms, buffalo worms and crickets. http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/real-life/could-you-handle-eating-at-londons-first-insect-bar-424139.html


Now I am aware that in some Asian country's this can be quite the normal snacks, Now I myself have eaten horse, snails and some other stuff I cant even describe, But actually sitting down to a plate of worms just doesn't do it for me.

What about you AH ?Would you indulge ?

nullzero

Would make a nice change to all the chain restaurants in London.

The flying mouse

nullzero wrote: »

Would make a nice change to all the chain restaurants in London.

Sure if its successful it be only a matter of time before they be creeping everywhere...

Alf Stewart.

I read that title as "incest bar" and wondered wtf that would entail of.......

Sisters are doing it for themselves.......

Junkyard Tom

Washed down with a pint of tenants?

ten ants

ants

You'd be some sap to go there and pay for it, throw a few digestive biscuits down the back of the couch and you'll be eating worms breakfast, lunch and dinner for a few days.

Ted111

Waiter, waiter, I have a fly in my soup.

Ted111

Getting sick of the same old grub?

Skyfarm

we have one of those bars near me ,in fact the bar flys keep buzzing me for money when i pass...

Skyfarm

Ted111 wrote: »

Waiter, waiter, I have a soup in my fly

fixed that for you..

R.D. aka MR.D

Would love to try it but I assume that it'll be overpriced because of the 'novelty' factor.

jester77

Had deep-fried tarantulas once, the legs were nice and crispy, the belly was meh. If the insects were crispy like the legs then i would dig in.

mzungu

Interested? I dust mite be.

mzungu

mzungu wrote: »

Interested? I dust mite be.

Oh dear.


Anyway nope nope nope. Yuck.

Summer wind

Ooooooh sweet Jesus I would never ever in a hundred million years:eek:

Ted111

Ted111 wrote: »

Waiter, waiter, I have a fly in my soup.

Don't worry sir, there's a spider on the bread. :pac:

learn_more

Cockroachtails instead of Cocktails

Micecream instead of Icecream

Fullauvants instead of volovants

Spaghetti Ballsofsnails instead of Spaghetti Bolognese

I don't think so, I'll just skip straight to the dessert wine, thanks.

ancapailldorcha

I'll give it a go. Will report my findings.

Jimoslimos

Ugghh...all that subhuman vermin.

The insects I could stomach, it's the annoying pretentious **** that frequent these sort of places that would have me retching.

GLaDOS

I've tried flavoured crickets and meal worms.

Fairly meh.

suicide_circus

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Washed down with a pint of tenants?

ten ants

ants

https://secure.static.tumblr.com/3d1714b45d1f8b33574324651b32eec3/lfpdmug/yMSnywqom/tumblr_static_1lwhiok03lz40g08socsskskg_640_v2.jpg

After human placenta - frogs and snails - snake - and some of the weirder things that come from the sea - insects would seem relatively mundane.

Estrellita

The flying mouse wrote: »

Now I myself have eaten horse..

At this point, I'm sure alot of us have. Either knowingly or unknowingly. I won't be dining on insects any time soon (purposely).

Essien

I never would have believed there were that many people out there who would be happy to go out and pay money to eat bugs? If it's protein you're after just get a nice bit of steak or salmon.

Dr Jakub

Mary Robinson's new favourite restaurant.

OldGoat

GLaDOS wrote: »

I've tried flavoured crickets and meal worms.

Fairly meh.

I've eaten dried mealworms on a few occasions - the texture is kinda like a stale "Cheesey Wotsits", nice nutty flavour though.

Boom_Bap

I'd rather eat at the cereal cafe.

Tazio

I'd love to see how a Heath inspector gets to grips with this... good roaches versus bad roaches..... they all look the same to me!

HensVassal

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Ugghh...all that subhuman vermin.

The insects I could stomach, it's the annoying pretentious **** that frequent these sort of places that would have me retching.

Just don't earwig on their conversations.

Jimoslimos

HensVassal wrote: »

Just don't earwig on their conversations.

Oh to be a fly on the wall.

Shenshen

I'd do the same I do in every restaurant and ask for the vegetarian menu.

Seriously, though, people stuff themselves on prawns, consider raw live oysters to be delicacy, and happily tuck into unidentifiable parts of unknown animals stuffed into pigs intestines which may or may nor have been thoroughly rinsed before being repurposed, but they've got a problem with ants?

I don't understand onmivores, sorry.