Lidl now selling insect burgers

[Vitamin c]

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Lidl selling insect burgers in Ireland yum.
How long till we are privileged to this bugg burger offering.
Me think sooner rather than later.
I will try them and if ok and price is right their be on my regular menu .

Will you try.

[jansman]

No. Not part of my culture as a native Englishman. . It’s like asking a Hindu to eat beef,or my Muslim friend to eat pork.

[jennyjj01]

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Lidl selling insect burgers in Ireland yum.
How long till we are privileged to this bugg burger offering.
Me think sooner rather than later.
I will try them and if ok and price is right their be on my regular menu .

Will you try.

I'm hopeful that they'll be priced further out of my reach than black pudding and cod roe. Not for me thx.

[Kiwififer]

I would have to see it but I’m not against eating stuff like that in principle.

We eat prawns. The Japanese consider them insects of the ocean.

I’ve had frogs legs, sea urchin and a million other things that would make a lot of folk boak. Insects is just another thing to try imo.

[Vitamin c]

As a exlondoner as a kid often ate jellied eels, cockles and muscles not a huge jump to insects.
I believe a lot of it will be in the presentation.

[Whitetailprepper]

No. Not part of my culture as a native Englishman. . It’s like asking a Hindu to eat beef,or my Muslim friend to eat pork.

Spot on

[jansman]

As a exlondoner as a kid often ate jellied eels, cockles and muscles not a huge jump to insects.
I believe a lot of it will be in the presentation.

Local food - what your community is used to. round here ( used to be) rabbits and game in general,and in the Autumn a particular’blue leg ‘ mushroom. I made some money as a boy with that in the Railway Pub down the road!

[grenfell]

I'd try them at least. After all we eat honey which is basically bee vomit or cheese that pretty much the same from a calf. Eat a sausage or burger and you've probably eaten mechanically extracted meat which in it's raw state isn't very appetizing. I reckon a lot of the opposition is psychosomatic , people find the idea of eating insects off putting as they imagine them alive and crawling. I have found the same with best before dates with our family . If something is past that date some of my family will not eat it and make comments like "it'll make me feel sick" but don't tell them and they'll eat it without problem. Same goes for insects. Make it look like something else and don't make a song and dance about it and they'll be eaten.

[jennyjj01]

I'd try them at least. After all we eat honey which is basically bee vomit or cheese that pretty much the same from a calf. Eat a sausage or burger and you've probably eaten mechanically extracted meat which in it's raw state isn't very appetizing. I reckon a lot of the opposition is psychosomatic , people find the idea of eating insects off putting as they imagine them alive and crawling. I have found the same with best before dates with our family . If something is past that date some of my family will not eat it and make comments like "it'll make me feel sick" but don't tell them and they'll eat it without problem. Same goes for insects. Make it look like something else and don't make a song and dance about it and they'll be eaten.

With me it's the thought of eating innards and eyes and all the intestinal contents with nowt taken out.
I couldn't eat whitebait for the same reason. I once had surf and turf and realising I'd eaten a shellfishes eye with my peas put me right off.

It's a cultural thing and psychological. We who've never starved might one day have to adapt.

For me, flesh is edible. Jiggly bits, you can keep. Anything borderline, Don't show me: Don't tell me.

A lot of the time, what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve. So, yes, we might be more amenable if the insects are well presented, pureed, battered or whatever and called something italian sounding.

I do like chicken liver pate and blue cheese, so go figure.

[jansman]

I just asked Mrs J: Would you like a Lidl Insect burger? You can guess the look on her face and her answer!