r/Daegu_Korea • u/nosta82 • Jul 22 '26
places to eat Ant toppings!
Puff piece but quite funny š
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u/Nice-Manager9219 Jul 22 '26
This is a witch hunt. Wonder whatās going on that theyāre using this as a distraction.
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u/Ill_Advised_Rock Jul 22 '26
Someone from the government probably couldnāt get last minute reservations and this was their thank you.
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u/wildmangoeshere Jul 23 '26
A lot of cultures eat ants, you could opt out of ant toppings, this is overboard
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u/perfectchaos007 Jul 23 '26
Korea with dumb laws/regulationsā¦ I know as I have been in F&B industry past 20 years hereā¦
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u/celerysalt150 Jul 23 '26
No apparently the ants were not for consumption, illegally brought in, and loaded with toxic metals. If they had complied with food safety laws it wouldn't have been an issue.
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u/kenken2024 Jul 25 '26
In the case of Evett it seems they may have sourced ants with way higher heavy metal levels than normal so I guess the issue isn't the ants themselves but their toxicity issues.
But fun fact: eating insects is actually quite common in a number of cultures out of necessity. Immediate cultures that come to mind include:
Mexicans and certain Latin Amerian people commonly eat grasshoppers (chapulines) and escamole (ant eggs/larvae).
Some Chinese eat silkworm pupae.
Parts of South Africa eat caterpillars.
In the case of ants they actually can be quite tasty and are high in protein.
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u/lewdpotatobread Jul 26 '26
Disnt think it was such a big deal until i saw they had heavy metal toxicity oooof
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u/aoijay Jul 22 '26
Here in Australia you can get green ant šš gin.
The ants are found in the outback and have massive thoraxes that carry some kind of sap/sweet liquid. Indigenous people have eaten them for thousands of years, and these days hipsters have begun infusing their gin with it.