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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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[-] voluble@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

POV: You’re the world’s largest producer of lentils, by far

Conservatives: “They’re eating the bugs”

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Hell I won't eat bugs and ain't no conservative tagging me for it

[-] fnrir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It already happened in Poland. Source: search "Poland eating bugs"

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 35 points 15 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.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 32 points 16 hours ago
[-] kyle@lemm.ee 14 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 45 minutes ago

Not the onion?

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 hours ago

This fucking timeline

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 47 points 20 hours ago

Oh shit new moral panic just dropped!

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 27 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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?

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 4 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 16 hours ago

Even better, thanks!

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

I guess we'll find out on the Beav.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 20 hours ago

More for me!

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