It’s a promising solution to some of the environmental and sustainability challenges facing the food industry. Compared to traditional meat sources, mealworms require less land, water, and feed to produce the same amount of protein, and they produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, they are a good source of essential nutrients like protein, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Unfortunately, I also could FUCKING NEVER.
I’d sooner eat the cardboard.
Not my cup of tea but an interesting option for some.
Was going to get a box earlier today until I saw one of the main ingredients is mushrooms. 🤮
Short answer: No
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo
Nope, not for me. I’d be tempted to try some but I’m severely allergic to dust mites and I’d feel like such a dope if I was hospitalised because of trying an insect burger.
The rich and powerful will continue to eat meat until the very moment the world ends, it is an absolute marvel and miracle that that the vast majority of us in this country can easily afford to eat meat daily and it is a privilege I am never willing to give up just so Im forced to eat fucking grasshoppers whilst the main causes of environmental harm go ignored
Fair amount of fat in them isn’t there and then when you go fry them?
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Someone posted about it here a few weeks ago, they we’re having a raving conniption about it being a conspiracy. As if they we’re forced to buy it.
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I might be tempted to try. Probably less insects than a regular burger lol.
I saw the photo first and my first thought was please don’t be r/Ireland
people get hung up about eating insects but it’s fairly normal in many places. remember watching a show where they blind taste tested a family with burgers and you could put up to 50% insect flour into them before they started to say something seemed off.
i’ve had various insects. often pretty non-descript tbh til you season them.
It’s just protein lads, give over. It also in a burger so you wouldn’t even know unless told.
Well I mean people eat dead cows and pigs what’s the difference in eating an insect?
Try it sometime.
To be fair it’s the soya that’s throwing me off more. Worms I’m not mad about eating but crickets I’d be fine
I’ll eat people first, the people pushing this shit specifically.
Well protein at least
Who looked at bean burgers and was like you know what man fuck a few maggots in there
Ewww soy
Whatever about eating insects, I just don’t get this. Why is this not just a soya burger? Soy/wheat/pea/quorn/etc meat substitutes have gotten so good (with high protein), I’m not sure I see the point of bunging in a miniscule percentage of insects.
Soya 🤢
I’ve tried an insect burger before and it was nice
disgusting shit
you crush bugs under your shoe, you don’t eat them
Eat Ze Bugs
We need to move away from beef. Look at our annual emmisions lads, not good.
I traveled in SE Asia in my younger years, and now I have no qualms about eating insects or other things that are considered “yucky” in Western cultures. However, I tried those Lidl mealworm burgers and they are just like most other “meat alternatives” I’ve tried to date, that is to say NOT GOOD AT ALL. Very dry and the texture is totally unappetizing. I’ll take a nice hummus plate over this shit any time of the day.
Ironically, probably the most convincing vegan burger I’ve ever tried was McPlant, it’s hardly distinguishable from the usual McDonald’s fare.
EAT ZE FUCKIN BUGS!
You will eat the bugs, you will live in a pod, you will own nothing and be happy.
I will not live in the pod; I will not eat the bugs 🐛🐛🐛
You vill eat ze bugs
Klaus Schwab approves this message
Not a hope would I eat that.
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if it becomes more or less forced as the price of meat is artificially increased and is phased out for the lower classes of society in the name of saving the environment. Then people will try justify it and vilify those who eat meat as selfish arseholes who want to watch the world burn.
Couldn’t give a fiddlers about George Monbiot and his ilk- I refuse to believe that a few cows in Kildare etc are actively contributing to the demise of the planet. Nope. Utter rubbish.
I’d maybe sample them in a really nice restaurant or some legit street food out foreign.. just not a lidl version. Tbf we eat much worse, it’s just about what is normal. And didn’t red food colouring used to be crushed up red bugs? Or maybe that’s a myth
I think as long as I couldn’t see any insect bits I could probably give it a try. If I like it I could probably get used to if but seeing a leg or bit of head would definitely put me off.
Nice try World Economic Forum! Nice try!
First of all, they’re living creatures, so no fucking thank you.
Secondly – see first point.
I always find the “but X place eats insects all the time, it’s normal there!” So stupid, like man, the reason many of those places incorporated insects into their diet is because they were literally starving with nothing else to eat, a mix of terrible weather events, literal locust swarms and wars absolutley destroyed agricultural output on the regular.
Like I don’t have either biblical plagues of locusts, the rapids of an overflowing Mekong Delta or a rampaging Mongol army fucking shit up outside my house, so nah, I’m gonna continue not eating bugs, thank you very much.
It’s not the fact that it has insects in it, it’s the fact it’s Lidl meat alternative that I know it’s shite
Fuck that hard no thanks
“you can eat it ,but it tastes like shit”
I actually don’t mind trying this! We’re going to go through a food crisis and insects could be a good solution, or a good part solution. Insects aren’t even that gross if raised in a clean environment, unlike the ones we see in nature.
My only issue is that it’s Lidl’s, thus likely dry and tasteless.
Judging by reaction on Facebook when these first came out there must be 5G & chemtrails in the ingredients .
Am I waiting for the Snowpiecer end of the world or soylent green end of the world?
Lol literally poison our stomachs can’t handle insects, otherwise I’m pretty sure it’d be on menus the last few hundred years..
Why they gotta have the larva displayed on the box tho
It’s no ratburger
I’ll stick to my fillet steak thanks
Eat Zee Bugs!
Quick question, was it on the vegetarian section?
On Lidl close to my house it is…I’m vegetarian and was looking at it and thought it was a joke name. Back in Brazil we have a cake called “anthill cake”. It has this name because we use chocolate sprinkles inside it and the cake is white, so you have a white cake with loads of black chocolate sprinkles and that gives you the appearance of ants on the cake.
That being said, I thought this burger was something like it, it’s not real insects…it’s just because it looks like there are insects in it.
I don’t remember seeing the “vegetarian suitable” stamp on it, but it is always in the vegetarian fridge section…
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It’s a promising solution to some of the environmental and sustainability challenges facing the food industry. Compared to traditional meat sources, mealworms require less land, water, and feed to produce the same amount of protein, and they produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, they are a good source of essential nutrients like protein, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Unfortunately, I also could FUCKING NEVER.
I’d sooner eat the cardboard.
Not my cup of tea but an interesting option for some.
Was going to get a box earlier today until I saw one of the main ingredients is mushrooms. 🤮
Short answer: No
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo
Nope, not for me. I’d be tempted to try some but I’m severely allergic to dust mites and I’d feel like such a dope if I was hospitalised because of trying an insect burger.
The rich and powerful will continue to eat meat until the very moment the world ends, it is an absolute marvel and miracle that that the vast majority of us in this country can easily afford to eat meat daily and it is a privilege I am never willing to give up just so Im forced to eat fucking grasshoppers whilst the main causes of environmental harm go ignored
Fair amount of fat in them isn’t there and then when you go fry them?
​
​
Someone posted about it here a few weeks ago, they we’re having a raving conniption about it being a conspiracy. As if they we’re forced to buy it.
​
I might be tempted to try. Probably less insects than a regular burger lol.
I saw the photo first and my first thought was please don’t be r/Ireland
people get hung up about eating insects but it’s fairly normal in many places. remember watching a show where they blind taste tested a family with burgers and you could put up to 50% insect flour into them before they started to say something seemed off.
i’ve had various insects. often pretty non-descript tbh til you season them.
It’s just protein lads, give over. It also in a burger so you wouldn’t even know unless told.
Well I mean people eat dead cows and pigs what’s the difference in eating an insect?
Try it sometime.
To be fair it’s the soya that’s throwing me off more. Worms I’m not mad about eating but crickets I’d be fine
I’ll eat people first, the people pushing this shit specifically.
Well protein at least
Who looked at bean burgers and was like you know what man fuck a few maggots in there
Ewww soy
Whatever about eating insects, I just don’t get this. Why is this not just a soya burger? Soy/wheat/pea/quorn/etc meat substitutes have gotten so good (with high protein), I’m not sure I see the point of bunging in a miniscule percentage of insects.
Soya 🤢
I’ve tried an insect burger before and it was nice
disgusting shit
you crush bugs under your shoe, you don’t eat them
Eat Ze Bugs
We need to move away from beef. Look at our annual emmisions lads, not good.
I traveled in SE Asia in my younger years, and now I have no qualms about eating insects or other things that are considered “yucky” in Western cultures. However, I tried those Lidl mealworm burgers and they are just like most other “meat alternatives” I’ve tried to date, that is to say NOT GOOD AT ALL. Very dry and the texture is totally unappetizing. I’ll take a nice hummus plate over this shit any time of the day.
Ironically, probably the most convincing vegan burger I’ve ever tried was McPlant, it’s hardly distinguishable from the usual McDonald’s fare.
EAT ZE FUCKIN BUGS!
You will eat the bugs, you will live in a pod, you will own nothing and be happy.
I will not live in the pod; I will not eat the bugs 🐛🐛🐛
You vill eat ze bugs
Klaus Schwab approves this message
Not a hope would I eat that.
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if it becomes more or less forced as the price of meat is artificially increased and is phased out for the lower classes of society in the name of saving the environment. Then people will try justify it and vilify those who eat meat as selfish arseholes who want to watch the world burn.
Couldn’t give a fiddlers about George Monbiot and his ilk- I refuse to believe that a few cows in Kildare etc are actively contributing to the demise of the planet. Nope. Utter rubbish.
I’d maybe sample them in a really nice restaurant or some legit street food out foreign.. just not a lidl version. Tbf we eat much worse, it’s just about what is normal. And didn’t red food colouring used to be crushed up red bugs? Or maybe that’s a myth
I think as long as I couldn’t see any insect bits I could probably give it a try. If I like it I could probably get used to if but seeing a leg or bit of head would definitely put me off.
Nice try World Economic Forum! Nice try!
First of all, they’re living creatures, so no fucking thank you.
Secondly – see first point.
I always find the “but X place eats insects all the time, it’s normal there!” So stupid, like man, the reason many of those places incorporated insects into their diet is because they were literally starving with nothing else to eat, a mix of terrible weather events, literal locust swarms and wars absolutley destroyed agricultural output on the regular.
Like I don’t have either biblical plagues of locusts, the rapids of an overflowing Mekong Delta or a rampaging Mongol army fucking shit up outside my house, so nah, I’m gonna continue not eating bugs, thank you very much.
It’s not the fact that it has insects in it, it’s the fact it’s Lidl meat alternative that I know it’s shite
Fuck that hard no thanks
“you can eat it ,but it tastes like shit”
I actually don’t mind trying this! We’re going to go through a food crisis and insects could be a good solution, or a good part solution. Insects aren’t even that gross if raised in a clean environment, unlike the ones we see in nature.
My only issue is that it’s Lidl’s, thus likely dry and tasteless.
Judging by reaction on Facebook when these first came out there must be 5G & chemtrails in the ingredients .
Am I waiting for the Snowpiecer end of the world or soylent green end of the world?
Lol literally poison our stomachs can’t handle insects, otherwise I’m pretty sure it’d be on menus the last few hundred years..
Why they gotta have the larva displayed on the box tho
It’s no ratburger
I’ll stick to my fillet steak thanks
Eat Zee Bugs!
Quick question, was it on the vegetarian section?
On Lidl close to my house it is…I’m vegetarian and was looking at it and thought it was a joke name. Back in Brazil we have a cake called “anthill cake”. It has this name because we use chocolate sprinkles inside it and the cake is white, so you have a white cake with loads of black chocolate sprinkles and that gives you the appearance of ants on the cake.
That being said, I thought this burger was something like it, it’s not real insects…it’s just because it looks like there are insects in it.
I don’t remember seeing the “vegetarian suitable” stamp on it, but it is always in the vegetarian fridge section…