COME TO THE 'PESTERAUNT': London eatery serves up ants, tarantulas, worms, and scorpions in creepy-crawly pop-up
Stan Knight, 9, eats barbecued mealworms at a pop-up ‘Pestaurant’ in central London
London is turning up the heat on pest control and their taking it to an all new edible level.
For one day only, international pest control service Rentokil introduced the world's first "pop-up Pestaurant" in London with a menu of crawling cuisine in celebration of more than 85 years of service.
Londoners had the chance to sample sweet chilli pigeon burgers, salted weaver ants, BBQ Mole Crickets and chocolate dipped worms.
The company served up a medley of exotic critters Thursday, such as salt and vinegar crickets, chili pigeon burgers, BBQ mealworms, grasshoppers and chocolate-dipped ants for free to foodies with adventurous appetites.
A pigeon burger is topped with mealworms — a source rich in protein, calcium, zinc and iron and low in fat.
Stan Knight, a 9-year-old from north London, scarfed down 10 yellow barbecued worms which made him vomit shortly after.
"I don't know. I liked them. They were really nice. I think it was because I had too much of them in one go," he told the Independent. "They just felt like normal food."
Pest control company Rentokil offered adventurous eaters barbecued worms and salt-and-vinegar flavored crickets.
Though the edible insects may not appeal to all palates, according to the UN's Food & Agriculture Organization, they are a nutritional food source rich in protein, calcium, zinc and iron and are low in fat.
Pigeons have also been hailed as a delicacy found on Michelin-starred menus across the world.
"I don't really see why anybody wouldn't eat them. I think it's just the concept really, rather than what they actually taste like," Londoner, Tim Guest, 40, said.
"I wouldn't go and grab a handful from the wild and shove them in my mouth."
jsettembre@nydailynews.com
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Stan Knight, 9, eats barbecued mealworms at a pop-up ‘Pestaurant’ in central London
London is turning up the heat on pest control and their taking it to an all new edible level.
For one day only, international pest control service Rentokil introduced the world's first "pop-up Pestaurant" in London with a menu of crawling cuisine in celebration of more than 85 years of service.
Londoners had the chance to sample sweet chilli pigeon burgers, salted weaver ants, BBQ Mole Crickets and chocolate dipped worms.
The company served up a medley of exotic critters Thursday, such as salt and vinegar crickets, chili pigeon burgers, BBQ mealworms, grasshoppers and chocolate-dipped ants for free to foodies with adventurous appetites.
A pigeon burger is topped with mealworms — a source rich in protein, calcium, zinc and iron and low in fat.
Stan Knight, a 9-year-old from north London, scarfed down 10 yellow barbecued worms which made him vomit shortly after.
"I don't know. I liked them. They were really nice. I think it was because I had too much of them in one go," he told the Independent. "They just felt like normal food."
Pest control company Rentokil offered adventurous eaters barbecued worms and salt-and-vinegar flavored crickets.
Though the edible insects may not appeal to all palates, according to the UN's Food & Agriculture Organization, they are a nutritional food source rich in protein, calcium, zinc and iron and are low in fat.
Pigeons have also been hailed as a delicacy found on Michelin-starred menus across the world.
"I don't really see why anybody wouldn't eat them. I think it's just the concept really, rather than what they actually taste like," Londoner, Tim Guest, 40, said.
"I wouldn't go and grab a handful from the wild and shove them in my mouth."
jsettembre@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...rms-scorpions-article-1.1427915#ixzz2c9A4AxU7
