Sainsbury's Selling Bug Grub

[naomi24]

//Crickets are set to hit the shelves as Sainsbury’s becomes the first supermarket to sell edible bugs.

Customers will be able to fill their shopping baskets with Eat Grub’s Smoky BBQ Crunchy Roasted Crickets in 250 of the supermarket giant’s stores from Sunday.

The house crickets, also known as acheta domesticus, are farmed in Europe will come in packets of about 50 and sell for £1.50 per bag.

Anyone brave enough to try the snack is promised to get a “crunchy texture with a rich, smoky flavour”......The global edible insect market is set to exceed $500m by 2023.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sainsburys-first-uk-supermarket-sell-edible-bugs-insects-crickets-a8638581.html

Well? Would you?

[ethandron]

I always enjoyed monkey nuts...

[Baldric]

So did the Monkeys ;o)

[mallyh]

lol ^^^^

[ethandron]

Oh you are awful...but I like you ;) (whose catch phrase was that?)

[sandyRoe]

One of Dick Emery's characters

[hereIam]

Dick Emery ..

[spathiphyllum]

B&m were selling an i’ma a celeb challange bug box for years

[Mamyalynne]

This man wasn't safe round your Monkey's Nuts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Voronoff

[Patsy33]

They might be tasty but I don't think I could eat them willingly. Although, as a child, my father would fry elvers, and put vinegar, & pepper on them. He gave me some to try. I absolutely loved them! The only thing I didn't like was crunching the eyes.....

[DarceyK123]

Bainbrig - Are you a vegetarian?

[bainbrig]

Yes Darcy, you?

[bainbrig]

Sorry, Darcey ... slip of the keyboard.

[DarceyK123]

No, but there doesnt look like theres much meat on them.

[bainbrig]

Ho ho. For me it’s more a question of ‘did they have a life?’, and our right to take it from them.

[emmie]

no i wouldn't not for any price.

[ChillDoubt]

I’ll give them a try.

If predictions are correct they(insects) will have to become one of Africa’s main food sources in order to sustain life on that continent in this century.

[rowanwitch]

That and tank grown algae for the other food groups. Not in what's left of my lifetime but bug protein could become useful in feeding people who live in countries where populations are now unsustainable.

[naomi24]

I feel sorry for the carrots and potatoes. They scream their heads off when they're pulled out of their cosy beds in the ground you know. ;o)

[bainbrig]

Excellent, clear-headed thinking as usual, naomi24. I wonder how The Buddha missed that?

[ummmm]

Are you selective, Bainbrig, on what can and can't be killed?