Feeding the Future Pop-Up

A stall serving up free insect ice cream is coming to the Queen Street Mall.
Samantha Teague
March 15, 2018

Overview

There has been much discussion about what the future of food will look like — lab-grown meat, veganism, Soylent-like meal replacements, insects. And news and finance magazine The Economist wants you to get accustomed with the last-mentioned possibility: eating critters.

To help ease you into the idea of snackin' on creepy-crawlies, it's giving out free ice cream. But don't expect your usual go-to flavours — instead think chocolate with grasshopper chunks, strawberry with mealworm swirls and neapolitan with mixed bugs.

The insect-laden ice cream truck is popping up in the Queen Street Mall between 10am and 4pm on March 15, as part of the magazine's new Feeding the Future campaign. While insects aren't a totally new concept to Australia's dining scene — in Sydney, you can eat them at Kylie Kwong's Billy Kwong and at Bea in Barangaroo House — this is certainly one of your only chances to try them for free (and prepared by a professional, not collected from your backyard).

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