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CNN Live At Daybreak
Berlin Restaurant Serving up Insects on the Menu
Aired March 13, 2002 - 06:58 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: How does maggot salad or cockroach pasta or grasshoppers and locust couscous sound to you? OK, don't spill your coffee.
CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney opens the menu on this one.
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FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Health inspectors aren't about to shut down this restaurant in Berlin just because there are maggots in the kitchen. Actually, they're on the menu. The Soda Restaurant offers such delicacies as sauteed maggots with green leaves and cockroach pasta, and if that doesn't sound tempting, how about grasshopper and locust couscous?
Chef Lars Scheuble says he was bored with German food and decided to branch out.
LARS SCHEUBLE, CHEF (through translator): You see it a lot on holiday, insects being fried at the side of the road in Thailand, for example, so you hear that they can be eaten. So that's where it came from. I just thought I'd try it, but I wanted to make the dishes a bit more European.
SWEENEY: Scheuble notes that while some Westerners may be offended at the prospect of bugs in their bowls, insects are eaten instead of meat in parts of Africa and Asia.
This woman and her friend gave the maggot salad a try.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): They're quite crunchy. It's a bit like having chopped almonds or nuts in your mouth. You just have to get used to their appearance first.
SWEENEY: After you finish the main course, you can top it off with a maggot tart. Scheuble says so far it's been a winning recipe. No one's complained about stomach problems.
Fionnuala Sweeney, CNN.
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COSTELLO: Sorry about that.
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