From the New Europe: Eating bugs and worms because you can afford it
The luxury restaurant market in the Czech Republic is apparently looking for new, creative ways to cater to their clients and be "distinguishable from others."
The strategy? Putting insects as an item on luxury restaurants menus, the Prague Daily Monitor reports. The Brno restaurant manager Martin Kobylka says: "We want to shock people. A lobster, a crab or a crawfish are offered everywhere, but a cricket in caramel or a chocolate cake with a cockroach are unavailable in this country for now." (I love that the name Kobylka actually means grasshopper in Czech. It is about the coolest name for a guy who wants to market mainstream insect-eating.)
Chocolate cake with a cockroach sounds like a delightful way to end a first date. Especially if you are really not that into her.
Filed under: Food and Drink, Europe, Czech Republic
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May 21st 2008 @ 4:24AM
Craig said...
Wow, that's...gross. I was just thinking about eating cheaply in Europe. I think my plans were somewhat more delicious but...there's certainly a novelty factor.
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