Grub's up: Insects served at Rentokil pop-up on Cheapside

 
Anyone for cricket? A punter tucks in
12 August 2013

Bizarre dishes, from salted ants to worms dipped in chocolate, will be served at a pop-up restaurant this week.

Also on the menu are sweet chilli pigeon burgers, salted grasshoppers, BBQ tarantulas and crickets, giant scorpions and chocolate-dipped silkworm pupae.

The “pestaurant” will open for one day only as part of pest control firm Rentokil’s 85th birthday celebrations. The dishes on the menu will be free to try at the pop-up site at One New Change at Cheapside on Thursday. Rentokil said several organisations had identified insects as valuable foods, because they are rich in protein, zinc, calcium and iron and low in fat.

The UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation says more than two billion people supplement their diets with insects, and house crickets contain four times as much protein by weight as chicken. David Cross, head of Rentokil’s technical training academy, said experts at the “pestaurant” would answer questions and give tips on avoiding pest problems.

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