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OTTAWA – The Conservative Party of Canada has officially announced that in addition to walkable cities, vaccines, and transgender children, they are also deeply afraid of eating bugs.

“We WON’T Eat Bugs,” the CPC said in an online petition it posted this week. “No one is asking us to, but we’re so scared someone might, and it could be Justin Trudeau. And that makes us furious and so very frightened of this version of Justin Trudeau that we made up who is making us eat bugs.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

What happened to freedom and letting people excercise their liberty as they please.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago

Many political scientists believe the reason rightwing politicians become hysterical at the idea of eating insects is due to the fact that in school, all of them were either the kind of children who made other children eat bugs, or the kind of children who would’ve made other children eat bugs if they’d possessed the upper body strength to do so.

“Like all bullies, conservatives are deeply afraid of pretty much everything,” said Dr. Abigail Petrie, the head of the Political Science Department at McGill University. “They mask their terror with anger, but beneath their performative rage you’ll find a person who is terrified of anything and everything. Sadly, rather than simply coping with their anxiety in a healthy way, conservatives lash out, like a dog attacking a vacuum cleaner while pissing itself in fear.”

Nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What's it called when you eat the onion but turns out it actually is real?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

This fucking timeline

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So… what are the odds that trump is going to have The Onion shut down?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I guess we'll find out on the Beav.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Thank God, the market price of lobster and crab is too damn high. Even prawn is getting up there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I tried eating bugs, it's not bad. Aside from lobster and shrimp I mean, grasshoppers aren't that bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Silkworm pupae (Beondegi in Korean) are pretty good too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I would try it, looks interesting. The canned stuff though... Ugh

The boiled or steamed snack food is served in paper cups with toothpick skewers. Its aroma has been described as "nutty, shrimp-like, and a bit like canned corn" and the canned-type smells very much "like tire rubber", while the texture is firm and chewy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi

Edit: are those just the 'de-silked' pupae from the silk industry?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The pupa stage is a motionless stage. In this stage, people kill the pupa by plunging the cocoon into boiling water and unwind the silk thread.

https://byjus.com/chemistry/silkworm/

So yes, it looks like this is the leftover insect after the silk is removed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Even better, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

More for me!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh shit new moral panic just dropped!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)