Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants

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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kind of arbitrarily stupid lol.

  Only 10 insect species are approved as food ingredients in South Korea, including grasshoppers, mealworms and silkworm pupae.

  Other places allow ants as an ingredient, just not South Korea, while they allow other insects to be used as food.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    tests that found heavy metals above permitted levels in the ants.

    That seems like the bigger issue tbh

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That changes the story in a remarkable way.

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The most direct way to antagonize food inspectors.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nice

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is “ant farmer for Michelin star restaurants” a job that is hiring? It seems like it might actually be pretty fun?

  They estimated the dessert was served to 12,274 customers, using 49,096 ants, for total revenue of about 120m won.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you only get 4 ants with your dessert? What a fucking ripoff

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    • 50MYT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve done a hatred meal that had two dishes with ants.

      One was a lamington that had some sort of black ants.

      Another dish was a dessert with green ants. They tasted like fizzy lime, and there were heaps of them on both dishes.

      I’ve also seen a green ant gin here for sale also.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The hard part of being an ant farmer is getting the tiny lasso around them when it’s herdin’ season.

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    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not as difficult as harvesting moth balls. It’s so hard to get their tiny legs apart!

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  • Soku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When I worked in a restaurant, we had a snail guy

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ants are used as an ingredient in the US and Europe

  What do you people use ants in?

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