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

The flying mouse · 04-10-2016 08:50PM #1

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 · 04-10-2016 08:51PM

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

The flying mouse · 04-10-2016 08:55PM

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. · 04-10-2016 08:56PM

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

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

Junkyard Tom · 04-10-2016 08:58PM

Washed down with a pint of tenants?

ten ants

ants

04-10-2016 09:02PM

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 · 04-10-2016 09:03PM

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

Ted111 · 04-10-2016 09:05PM

Getting sick of the same old grub?

Skyfarm · 04-10-2016 09:06PM

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

Skyfarm · 04-10-2016 09:07PM

Ted111 wrote: »

Waiter, waiter, I have a soup in my fly

fixed that for you..

R.D. aka MR.D · 04-10-2016 09:08PM

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

jester77 · 04-10-2016 09:12PM

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 · 04-10-2016 09:23PM

Interested? I dust mite be.

04-10-2016 10:10PM

mzungu wrote: »

Interested? I dust mite be.

Oh dear.

Anyway nope nope nope. Yuck.

Summer wind · 04-10-2016 10:11PM

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

04-10-2016 10:31PM

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 · 04-10-2016 11:22PM

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 · 04-10-2016 11:39PM

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

Jimoslimos · 04-10-2016 11:51PM

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 · 05-10-2016 12:11AM

I've tried flavoured crickets and meal worms.

Fairly meh.

suicide_circus · 05-10-2016 12:11AM

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

05-10-2016 08:06AM

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

Estrellita · 05-10-2016 08:28AM

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 · 05-10-2016 08:57AM

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 · 05-10-2016 10:05AM

Mary Robinson's new favourite restaurant.

OldGoat · 05-10-2016 10:18AM

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 · 05-10-2016 10:24AM

I'd rather eat at the cereal cafe.

Tazio · 05-10-2016 10:33AM

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 · 05-10-2016 10:42AM

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 · 05-10-2016 01:05PM

HensVassal wrote: »

Just don't earwig on their conversations.

Oh to be a fly on the wall.

Shenshen · 05-10-2016 01:19PM

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.

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

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