London Eatery Serving Up WORM BURGERS

[Achilles]

London Eatery Serving Up WORM BURGERS

Published
15 hours ago on
7 November, 2019
Steve Watson

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Trendy ‘urban farm’ says it’s helping save the planet with ‘Bug macs’
A trendy ‘urban farm’ in London is serving up burgers made from live worms, claiming that they are tastier than beef burgers and will help save the planet.



Horizon, an insect farm in London, produces thousands of worms and crickets for its customers to eat.
It claims to use leftover food from local businesses to feed the insects, including Mealworms, and says that the worms only require 10% of the land used for beef, and produce far less CO2.


‘Experimental chef’ Tiziana Di Costanzo, the founder of the ‘farm’, says that the insects have a ‘nutty to earthy flavour’, and claims that she can produce enough worms to feed her family with just bran and used vegetable peel.
“Let them crawl into your menu once, and you’ll be hooked! Costanzo said, adding that “Once you get past the ‘yuck effect’, you’ll find that they actually taste really good.”
“We are hoping to scale up the operation to a production of 100kg per week in the next 6 months, all of this with zero waste” Costanzo added.


The craze for eating insects stems from UN guidelines that “promote insects as a sustainable high-protein food.”

The London insect farm is holding events to teach people how to cook with worms and crickets. Dishes include the afore mentioned burger, as well as cricket bruschetta, curry and coriander mealworm fritters, crispy chocolate mealworm cupcakes and cinnamon and raisin insect biscuits.
No thanks.




https://summit.news/2019/11/07/londo...-worm-burgers/

[KingsX]

Meanwhile back in Texas, I had BBQ beef brisket for lunch.

[Hoppalong]

Lots a good portion. Many peoples have eaten such things as that for eons.,

[KingsX]

Reminds me of "The Lion King" movie... while the lions' pride land kingdom has been taken over and destroyed by evil enemy hyenas, the one male lion heir to throne of the lion kingdom has abandoned his own and his responsibility to be the Lion King and instead has gone off to live a lazy irresponsible life with a bunch of misfit losers who only eat insects.

Who said that is a children's movie? I daresay there are plenty of adults who need to learn that movie's morality lesson.

[Green Man]

Those are just larvae.

Earthworms, unless properly purged with a very good pre-harvest diet can be a little gritty.

[Bear]

[moestooge]

Meanwhile back in Texas, I had BBQ beef brisket for lunch.

The extreme left and their dupes are trying to discredit and ban everything normal. Bugs or vegan? Don't say we didn't give you a "choice".

[merovingian]

The extreme left and their dupes are trying to discredit and ban everything normal. Bugs or vegan? Don't say we didn't give you a "choice".

Cannibalism seems to be an option too.

[dissimulo]

In my travels, I have taken a number of opporunities to eat bugs and always found them tasty with one exception: silkworm larvae. Ugh. Definitely an acquired taste and texture.