Edible bugs on the menu at Toronto market

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Edible bugs on the menu at Toronto market
By Rita DeMontis, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 06:00 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 06:06 PM EST
TORONTO - Big on bugs?

Would you like dried insect with that salad?

Toronto’s Summerhill Market has added high protein key-lime cricket pie and mealworm protein balls to their gourmet shop’s selection of 800-plus prepared foods, made fresh on site daily by their 100-chef kitchen brigade.

That’s right — bugs in your food!

From savoury to sweet dishes, there’s roasted crickets, seasoned mealworms and even an organic cricket flour for those mouth-watering baked goods on your must-make list.

Summerhill Market is one of Toronto’s first grocers to sell gourmet dried insect goods. The products include honey mustard, BBQ and Moroccan roasted crickets ($1.69 per 2-gram pack), sea salt and pepper seasoned mealworms ($1.69 per 2g pack) and organic cricket flour ($15.99 per 113g bag), all from Entomo Farms.

“Our customers come to us for wholesome homemade food and hard-to-find items like these,” said Brad McMullen, third-generation grocer and owner of Summerhill Market.

“Crickets are a great source of protein and an environmentally conscience option. Plus, they’re delicious.”

Um, yum?

SUMMERHILL MARKET, two locations; 446 Summerhill Ave., 416 921-2714, and 1054 Mt. Pleasant Rd., 416 485-4471; Summerhill Market - Home.
Dried insects are for sale at Summerhill Market. (Supplied)

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I saw the walls of the old Eatons Centre food court, behind a big hoarding after they had moved it "downstairs" and the walls were moving. There were millions of cucarachas ... herds of them. It looked like the Orcs climbing down the walls of the Mines of Moria.

Anyway, edible bugs are nothing new to the Toronto foodie scene.
 
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You want to go to markets in China.

By the way, scorpions don't really taste of anything. I ate one a few years ago. And when I was akid I used to eats ants (which taste bitter), worms and other creepy-crawlies.
 
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Silkworm curry. I should get my local curry house to see if they'll make it.
 
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Ludlow said:
I suppose you sprinkle turd tumblers on your cereal as well.
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No, I'd rather eat silkworm. It's a delicacy in China.

Karl Pilkington saw these along with other tasty dishes, like cockroaches, toads, foetuses and scorpions, at a Chinese market. Those Chinks eat anything.



What recipe do you have for stank bugs Blackster?
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Brown marmorated stink bugs, eggs and chips. A simple, tasty British dish with a Far Eastern twist.
 
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