Salt & Straw Serving Up Bug Ice Cream
Would you eat this creepy crawly treat? Salt & Straw located at Downtown Disney in Anaheim has just unveiled some of their spooky fall flavors and among the new treats is an ice cream that features real bugs! Yup, you heard that right. Real bugs!
The flavor is called Creepy Crawley Critters and the name says it all! Salt & Straw pride themselves on pushing the envelope when it comes to ice cream flavors and this treat is no exception. Let’s take a look at the official description:
Walking through a haunted house, your hand is thrusted into a bowl of squelching guts. Then cold, slimy eyeballs. Reaching for the brains something grazes your arm, making your hair stand up. One, two, ten prickles along your skin. Whipping off your blindfold you spy dozens of spiders wriggling up your body. Now, we’re not going to let any critters loose on you, but we are delivering dozens hiding in the grass by way of this matcha ice cream with toffee-brittle mealworms and chocolate crickets. La Cocina graduate Don Bugito in Oakland provided the delicious insects, and we brought the creepy. Be careful though—did that one just move?
When we first red the description we thought “surely they jest, it can’t be real bugs.” But let’s take a look at the ingredients shall we:
Ingredients:
Milk, Cream, Sugar, Don Bugito’s Coconut Brittle Bugitos (sugar, toasted mealworms, coconut, amaranth, cinnamon oil), Tapioca Syrup, Don Bugito’s Dark Chocolate Covered Crickets (toasted crickets, chocolate [cacao beans, sugar, cocoa butter, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans], amaranth seeds), Orange Juice, Matcha Powder, Salt, Natural Gums (guar gum, carrageenan).
Allergens: Milk, Shellfish (insects), Tree Nuts (coconut)
Three (3) servings per pint. Each serving 2/3 cup. Calories per serving: 340
So yes. There you have it- real bugs indeed.
So if you’re feeling exceptionally brave, be sure to head over to Salt & Straw at Downtown Disney this spooky season and give this creepy frozen treat a try. And if insects in ice cream really isn’t your style, don’t worry there are other incredible flavors including The Great Candycopia complete with Vanilla Bourbon, chocolate, shortbread and pecans. Also, be on the lookout for Mummy’s Pumpkin Spiced Potion!
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