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Mini blog: Insect snacks – the new pub grubs

10 May

Weird food: Curry flavoured crickets and barbecue meal worms

Pint of lager? Check. G&T? Check. Bags of Doritos? Check. Insect snacks?

OK, so crunchy baked crickets (acheta domestica) in a thai green curry seasoning and baked, barbecue meal worms (Tenebrio Molitor) aren’t your average pub snack but that’s what I’ve brought with me to Westow House in Crystal Palace, London to be sampled by my team of tasters.

It’s a great venue with draping curtains, wrought iron shelves and orange papered feature walls but, as usual, it’s pouring with rain outside so I’ve brought the exotic with me.

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