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Now you can enjoy the taste of Bugsnax in your own homeWith real-life recipes
With real-life recipes
Weird critter-hunting game,Bugsnax, made me uncomfortably hungry when I played it for the first time over the weekend. Watching the little Bungers (they’re kinda like burger beetles) waddle around charging at splodges of ketchup made me go “awww”, and then immediately order a McDonald’s delivery. Thankfully, I will no longer need to default to takeaways to serve these strange cravings, because video game food-maker, Victoria Rosenthal, has come up with a bunch ofBugsnaxrecipes.
Rosenthal is experienced in creating game dishes - she’s the chef behind the official Destiny andFallout 4cookbooks, and has a load of cool recipes from the likes of Hades,Yakuzaand more all over her blog,Pixelated Provisions.
Oh no, I’m hungry again.
Speaking of which, how about a Cinnasnail? There is no actual snail in this, promise. Rather, it’s a cinnamon bun shaped like a slimy little friend (pictured above in the header). The bun part of this one is pretty self-explanatory, but the complicated bits are those eye stalks.Rosenthal explains in this recipehow to mold them out of melted white chocolate.
My personal favourite so far, though, is the Flapjackarak. This creature is like a crab with pancakes for a body and bacon rashers for legs (I’ve learned from this little fella that Americans and Canadians refer to pancakes as flapjacks, which is weird, stop that). The best part aboutthe Flapjackarak recipeis that Rosenthal uses actual bugs in it. She took the words Bug and Snack, went “yeah, ok” and made pancakes with cricket flour. Cricket! Flour! Flour with actual crickets in it. I’m fascinated.
…Is it weird that it kinda makes me want to try it more?
I’ve personally found Bugnax (the actual video game) a lot of fun so far. It’s like Pokémon, but trippy. Steve Hogarty liked it in hisBugsnax review, too, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be replaying it any time soon. “Bugsnax is a delightful and intriguing world to inhabit, just one whose robotic wildlife won’t inspire you to jump back in and finish off your collection.”
All this talk of Bugsnax has stuck the theme song right back into my head, so I invite you all to wallow with me in this excellent catchy tune again.
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