It’s time to finally squash the idea of insects as food

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Eat at a bug restaurant once, it’s certainly interesting. But those restaurants were always going to struggle with being anything other than a one-visit novelty

Even the Victorians had hipsters. Way back in 1885, Vincent M Holt was parading around in the 19th century equivalent of a Carhartt Holt Jacket, moustache fantastically twizzled, telling anyone who’d listen: “Guys, we’ve got to, like, diversify our diets if we’re gonna save the planet. We absolutely need to start mixing bugs in with our line-caught miso kimchi.” 

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