Anyone for ‘Beef Tartar and Sour Ants’?
Or a jerky jumbo shrimp spiced with a dozen ants for good measure?
Well, Noma Restaurant will no longer be able to pamper its diners with these little joys of life.
As Basil Fawlty might say, “Ants away … sorry!”
The EU is to blame
The culprit is the EU. No wonder Gordon Ramsey voted for Brexit.
According to The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, the veterinary and food administration, the restaurant no longer complies with the EU ‘novel food’ directive.
The directive requires that all foods not eaten in the union before 1997 must have special approval before they can be sold.
This will require ants, and probably a few other staples on the Noma menu, to be risk assessed before they can be marketed.
As Basil Fawlty said …
Bad news for copycats too
According to a report in Berlingske, Noma forages ants from the wild, records the location of their catch and species and then stores them in a freezer.
An announcement from the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has confirmed that the restaurant is โremoves the ants from the menu from tonight โ.
It remains to be seen whether other restaurants with ants on their menu – known in the industry as replicaants – will have to follow suit.
Well, who’s for trivia?
Source: The Nordic Page