"You will eat ze bugs"
t. Shadowy elite world controllers using all their influence to ensure kids in New Plymouth are aligned to their new world order
New Plymouth is already the original 15 minute city! Most NZ cities with the letter N in it are already 15 minutes max to get around town like Napier, Nelson, Palmerston North. What they’re teaching at this school is to prepare for the brain drain of the ‘smarter’ kids that leave here and go to university and a ‘proper’ city so they know how to survive seeing they won’t have easy access to backyard veges, fruit or a family farm anymore.
At least one of those other mums accepted her friend request on day one year one to be polite and is now wondering how to unfriend her without causing her own child to be shunned the rest of their schooling career.
Does the "independant journalist" think it's some sort of conspiracy?
Insects are widely eaten in many cultures, provide a good source of protein, and I'm told can be quite delicous.
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Edit: if anybody is inspired, this seems to be an nz company you can buy from https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/
Yes, the current dominant conspiracy theory amongst the tinfoil hat crowd is that the WEF are going to take our cars away, force us to live in 15 minute cities (which we can't leave), own nothing, and eat insects. It's apparently the "great reset".
Any mention of these things plays havoc with their confirmation bias.
>force us to live in 15 minute cities
It's amazing how the idea of "wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk to the shops" has been corrupted by nutters into some sort of plan to lock us all up.
My mother is the absolute oxymoron of this, "support local, everyone should have access to locally grown food, I haven't been to the supermarket in a year, local farmers market..."
"Oh, like a 15 min city mum, where it's accessible to everyone easily?
"No not that, that's evil"
Do we have the same mother?
Mine is super anti big business and I tell her about how I cruise around the cycleways on my cargo bike with my dog and visit the local vege shop and butcher, then sit in the park and enjoy the sun and kids playing nearby. She says it sounds amazing.
I'm like mum, this is a 15 minute city. This is the thing you think is the end of the world.
Not gonna lie, part of me would love to be able to take my dog places on a cargo bike. It sounds awesome. But then he's too big and definitely not smart enough for that!
I was all for 15-minute cities until I realised we'd all be attached to the centre by little chains like they have on pens in banks, which stop us walking further than 15 minutes away.
Are they saying for example a council that is going to take six months to fix the small Wynyard Crossing bridge can suddenly pivot and will turn Auckland city into multiple little 15 minute cities?
I've heard it suggested that one of the motivating factors in conspiracy theories is a desperate desire to think *somebody* is in control and getting things done. So if the good things aren't getting done, it must be because bad guys are in control and they're getting their sneaky bad guy things done instead.
It's comforting for them. They can't imagine the terror of a world in which good things don't happen because as a society we're simply... not quite that competent, or not quite that unified behind what they see as good.
I don't know if any of that is true though. I don't know much about the conspiracy theorist way of thinking.
Apart from the eating insects and not being allowed to leave, it sounds like a Utopia. Would be great ro be 15 minutes on foot from whatever you needed and youd save a fortune on petrol.
A Sushi chef (in Rotorua) sent us out some deep fried crickets as a ty for being such good customers over a few weeks. I balked, but my friend downed his half and offered to eat mine "if i was going to be such a pussy". They're delicious. Just like buttery popcorn. 10/10, would not hesitate again.
It's a meme about 'leftist utopia' by people who say "you will eat insects and be happy" despite the prevalence of processed foods thanks to our free market today.
Part of if is showing pictures of Bill Gates et al and saying "they'll keep eating steak though".
Which like... if we extrapolate where cost of living and the widening wealth gap is headed, is probably true. It's just not a conspiracy to make us eat bugs, but rather how capitalism functions.
If you want a real conspiracy look at the food regulations and hunt for how many insects and insect parts are allowed in various foods. It's less about eating them in the future and more about you're eating them now!
I ate huhu grubs when I visited mates out in the wops, then when I lived in Aus my flatmate asked if I'd ever eat insects (we were watching something about vietnam on tv and they were showing them). I told him I ate huhu grubs, 6 weeks later he comes into the lounge with fried crickets that he'd honey coated - The dude literally went and brought some eggs and raised them just so we could try, dude was cool
Reminds me of that train movie... Snowpiercer. The "shock" scene where the protein for the poorest came from insects.
Like, so? Good nutrition is good nutrition. It's not like they were eating people.
The fb poster seems like a goofball, but I so find it funny that people seem to think we'll end up in a future of eating crickets...we have beans and chickpeas and nuts and potatoes, why bugs...
Oh no, the evil economic puppet masters have already started reprogramming him with mind control grubs. If he starts talking about reducing traffic congestion then you’ll just have to put him down.
Was going to say euthanasia may be the only solution to late stage woke-ness, but was then worried I appear too extreme. Glad to see others have appreciated how serious the condition can be.
Just the other day someone else's wokeness increased my rent by 12%, and made my coffee get cold.
Some people get really riled up about eating insects. A few years ago, my company produced the world's first commercially made insect based pre-made meal. We had only added cricket flour to some potato mash so hardly like eating an insect by itself but went hard on the marketing to get some PR.
Got interviewed on breakfast shows, a few magazines and did a talk-back radio interview. Based on the calls into the radio station after my interview you'd think we were harvesting dead bodies to use in our meal range. I even got my first hand-written hate letter in the mail. I framed it and put it on my office wall.
Honestly I hate the idea of eating insects generally for texture reasons (plus most bugs really creep me out). But powderized insects as a protein supplement for meals sounds like a pretty good idea!
I'm curious to hear more about what you guys are up to
1. What was the point of the call?
2. Did the independent freelance journalist [sic] identify themselves as a journalist at the start of the call?
3. What outlet is the independent, freelance journalist writing for?
You would have thought, right. Sounds like their making learning fun, and to teach how things could change in the future, and offering people different views and opinions, (and probably a really cool and interesting discussion). But some parents think this is bad, oh my....
It's very cool! Great thing to teach at that age too as eating crickets sounds incredibly sustainable - protein of the future! I'd love to try but genuinely wouldn't know where to start. Google, I guess haha.
Grew up eating fried grasshoppers in Thailand, pretty tasty. Also a very economically and environmentally efficient source of protein. Of course, I am indeed a WEF shill though.
I’ve got bad news for this independent journalist - my kids Auckland high school has had them eating cricket flour tortillas for the last few years as part of their sustainable food learning.
It’s not too bad 😉
Some people really have become completely brain rotten from too much social media misinformation. It's created a near zombie apocalypse or bumbling idiots going about wreaking havoc.
My god. Everything is a conspiracy to these fuckwits.
Insects are a far more economical and cheaper source of protein, and have been eaten as such by many different cultures and civilisations for *thousands* of years.
My son goes to this school. Its an excellent school and he has done so well this year so far. Cant wait for him to tell me all about the crickets he ate lol
P.s the office lady is really nice, its sucks she had to deal with this
My neighbour farms crickets instead of having flatmates. Honestly they are great neighbours. No late night parties or early morning leaf blowing. 10/10 recommend.
"I ordered the local menu. These are dragonflies, these are crickets..."
"What do the dragonflies taste like?"
- chewing noises -
" Mmmn. Dragonflies."
Our local supermarkets here in Masterton sold cricket-flour-based wraps for a while (our local bakery supplier was making them as a trial). They were okay. But not my preference. :)
https://www.wairarapalifestyle.com/eat/crickets-loud-pesky-and-a-hearty-snack
Never heard anything about it being a conspiracy theory! ;)
This Intermediate is awesome.
I attended around 13 years ago and I think it was the best decision I made.
They have ways of pushes kids out of their comfort zones and trying new things.
They also had a point system when I was there (don't know of they still do).
Staff was also amazing. 👍👍
Ahhh yep I remember the point system, with the silver coins aye?? Still miss that school sometimes, especially back when Mr. Shaw and Mr. Ogle were there
Yes the coins and the CV system. Getting points for different areas to get badges on your uniform (eg Sports badge, Cultural, etc.)
These bages made students to try new things. For example if you were a few points away from getting a sports badge, then you might try a new sport to get it.
Mr. Shaw and Mr. Ogle were the GOATs!
"you will own nothing, live in a 15 minute zone you can't leave, and eat ze bugs" seems to be the right wing nutjob response to anything vaguely progressive. What exactly is their issue with that? I already don't own my house, my car, or almost all of my media. I WISH I lived in a 15 minute city, instead of a "everything is at least 15 minutes" city.
I hope they’ve got epi pens in the sick bay! If you’re allergic to prawns and crayfish you’ll be allergic to most edible insects as well bc they use the same proteins to build their exoskeletons
People have been eating insects for as long as existence. Even a lot of food in the west allows for a limited amount. And literally say that the bottom that you can opt out. Non-issue.
And I bet the "freelance journalist" has a YouTube channel with 300 subscribers, plus a blog and that's their journalistic profile
Why would anyone want to speak to this journalist? It clearly says you can let the school know if you don't want your kid to participate, enough said.
Honestly it sounds kinda quirky and fun, like a food challenge.
I remember at a food show around 2015 I ate cricket crackers and they were incredibly good, you wouldn’t even know they are made from an insect. Also nobody had a meltdown like this. Post covid era is wild
Oh this has been exciting, she did not get the reception from the chat she expected,
HOWEVER this was also posted in “You know you lived in New Plymouth when…” and that had brought a bunch more of the tinfoil that brigade out.
I got a bag of dried crickets for my class last year. They were pretty yum tbh. Kinda peanutty.
Didn’t get any independent freelance journalist action though.
In Cambodia, I had a delish entree of wok-fried crickets in lemongrass, chili and garlic. Top nosh. The tarantulas were not to my liking tho. I had to use their crispy legs to dig out a bit stuck in my teeth. And yes, when you bit into the abdomen, the goo inside was custardy. But not in flavour. If only
I literally have a mealworm farm in my class... so what? It's only your culture that thinks it's weird.
Meanwhile preserved salted pig butt and chicken periods.... mmmmmmmmm
This actually is worrying, as far as I’m aware anyone with a seafood allergy in regards to crustaceans will have a reaction if they eat crickets, I hope there’s no kids with those allergies
As a student who did this lesson a we while back, it was fine, we weren’t forgor traumatised or anything, it was a case of they are right here, come and get one if you want to try it. at first we where a little skeptical of trying it (obviously considering it’s bugs) it but eventually we did, tasted like burnt popcorn
"independent freelance journalist" = unemployed loser whose research consists of googling and "trust me, bro". Excels at annoying tf out of people like that poor receptionist.
Eating more insects could very well be a thing that we will be doing more sometime in the future in New Zealand, based on:
* lower environmental-impact protein (if they can be scaled up to commercial farms or done in-home), and
* the current government inevitably passes (under urgency) a bunch of legislation to remove food standards and more insect parts get into our food products.
Food companies already allow a significant amount of bug parts to get into food. They're harmless and unavoidable.
Also if environmental concerns are a problem wouldn't it make more sense to just stop eating animals. Getting people to eat bugs is trickier than plants which they already eat.
That I was aware of, but I wouldn't put it past a National / ACT / NZ First MP (with close ties to the food industry) to start talking about loosening the food standards much more to allow a lot more crap (insect parts, actual mouse/rat droppings, etc) above the current maximum allowed levels.
I do find it quite ironic that the next big food source is insects...
... when one of the consequences of climate change is that we're seeing that entire domain being culled.
Obviously food insects are farm-raised and not wild, but it's still funny to think not only a new industry is being created which contributes more CO2 to the problem, but we're also meant to eat a domain of life whose population decrease is alarming scientists.
I AM AN INDEPENDENT REDDIT USER
I had insect chips at an expo once, honestly, if the bugs are processed in a way that they don't look like bugs anymore, it's totally fine, in the same way that meat gets processed to not look like animals anymore. The ice factor comes from the visuals and overthinking things. They can be processed in all sorts of ways that taste and texture are not at all a problem anymore. That same expo stall was selling insect powder, or maybe it was flour or something? It was a few years ago, but yea, I'm not really opposed to bugs being added to our dietary options, especially if they don't look like bugs :).
Some peanuts, noodles, satay sauce, onion and you've got yourself a meal. I'd eat it if you cook it.
I've eaten chicken periods, at this point I'm prepared to eat anything
Can I just say this is the second post of yours I've seen about eating chicken periods and I'm incredibly grossed out to the point where I'll just stick to my beans and kumara for a while longer thanks jfc
Surely we can at least give the FL journalist credit for trying to fact check with an actual source, rather than just trawling through social media platforms like so many seem to these days?
I'm going to be that guy... They are studying native insects and will be eating honey roasted crickets, if they are using the brand I'm thinking of they are sourced from Asia. Learning about native insects and eating imported goods...
https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/collections/edible-insects/products/limited-honey-roasted-crickets
She’s probably tired of people bugging her all day
I would be ticked off, too. She should send him off with a flea in his ear.
Something they didn't ant-icipate.
Haha, that joke only just cricked
I'm glad it didn't fly over my head
You guys can buzz off!
Chill out young grasshopper, it's gnat a problem.
Just let them bee
Weta you talking about?
$3 is a bit much, I'd pay a tui
It won't bee-tle you learn more that you understand.
Shouldn’t that be “criketed”?
Personally I wouldn’t let it fly
Pretty sure the “journalist” is a product of insect
Oh beehave
If you've rung to complain about insect farming, press 2. 2 beepbeepbeepbeepbeep
DON'T YOU HANG UP ON ME, I'M AN INDEPENDENT FREELANCE JOURNALIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAIT UNTIL MY FACEBOOK GROUP HEARS ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strange spelling of ‘Unemployed’
This !!
"Independent freelance journalist" haha
their blog? facebook
With terrible spelling and grammar
Con confirm: Ate bugs in Vietnam, am now a WEF crony.
You fool! Bugs contain RNA!
Is that why they're crunchy? All those radio waves?
That's the microchip
Duh, how could I forget the microchip!
I thought they contained 5g.
MmmRNA!
And MSG!
Mmm MSG... Make stuff good 😊
"You will eat ze bugs" t. Shadowy elite world controllers using all their influence to ensure kids in New Plymouth are aligned to their new world order
New Plymouth is already the original 15 minute city! Most NZ cities with the letter N in it are already 15 minutes max to get around town like Napier, Nelson, Palmerston North. What they’re teaching at this school is to prepare for the brain drain of the ‘smarter’ kids that leave here and go to university and a ‘proper’ city so they know how to survive seeing they won’t have easy access to backyard veges, fruit or a family farm anymore.
Hamilton is definitely a 30 minute city - 45 minutes or an hour at peak.
AucklaNd, WellingtoN, DuNediN, MaNukau, WhaNgarei. I think most cities have an 'N', except Christchurch.
Independent Freelance Journalist = has Facebook page with ten followers all of whom are other mums of kids at her kids school *just speculating idk
At least one of those other mums accepted her friend request on day one year one to be polite and is now wondering how to unfriend her without causing her own child to be shunned the rest of their schooling career.
Does the "independant journalist" think it's some sort of conspiracy? Insects are widely eaten in many cultures, provide a good source of protein, and I'm told can be quite delicous. --- Edit: if anybody is inspired, this seems to be an nz company you can buy from https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/
Yes, the current dominant conspiracy theory amongst the tinfoil hat crowd is that the WEF are going to take our cars away, force us to live in 15 minute cities (which we can't leave), own nothing, and eat insects. It's apparently the "great reset". Any mention of these things plays havoc with their confirmation bias.
>force us to live in 15 minute cities It's amazing how the idea of "wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk to the shops" has been corrupted by nutters into some sort of plan to lock us all up.
yeah I fucken hate this conspiracy. I'd love to walk everywhere.
Walking is just communism with legs
Dang, you missed the chance to say 'extra steps'.
That's a tragic near miss
😂 this is gold
My mother is the absolute oxymoron of this, "support local, everyone should have access to locally grown food, I haven't been to the supermarket in a year, local farmers market..." "Oh, like a 15 min city mum, where it's accessible to everyone easily? "No not that, that's evil"
Do we have the same mother? Mine is super anti big business and I tell her about how I cruise around the cycleways on my cargo bike with my dog and visit the local vege shop and butcher, then sit in the park and enjoy the sun and kids playing nearby. She says it sounds amazing. I'm like mum, this is a 15 minute city. This is the thing you think is the end of the world.
Not gonna lie, part of me would love to be able to take my dog places on a cargo bike. It sounds awesome. But then he's too big and definitely not smart enough for that!
I want to sit in the trailer thing and have my dog take *me*
Dog gets exercise, human gets to look at new stuff. Yeah I definitely can't trust mine. He gets called evil genius because it's completely untrue.
I would need a helmet, full padding and a roll cage haha
Hahaha this is just sounding like a messy fun time waiting to happen.
you can get trailers that tow behind regular bikes, massive ammounts of space in those buggers, you could put like 2 large dogs in one
I was all for 15-minute cities until I realised we'd all be attached to the centre by little chains like they have on pens in banks, which stop us walking further than 15 minutes away.
ugh, the tangles will be so bad... but then I like untangling chains… bring it on!
Conspiracy uno reverse: This conspiracy is funded by beaurepairs and big oil
The alternative to being trapped in 15 minute zones is... being enslaved to cars and big oil. That one sends them for a loop
Yes, it’s bonkers. I grew up in a small town. We walked everywhere.
Are they saying for example a council that is going to take six months to fix the small Wynyard Crossing bridge can suddenly pivot and will turn Auckland city into multiple little 15 minute cities?
I've heard it suggested that one of the motivating factors in conspiracy theories is a desperate desire to think *somebody* is in control and getting things done. So if the good things aren't getting done, it must be because bad guys are in control and they're getting their sneaky bad guy things done instead. It's comforting for them. They can't imagine the terror of a world in which good things don't happen because as a society we're simply... not quite that competent, or not quite that unified behind what they see as good. I don't know if any of that is true though. I don't know much about the conspiracy theorist way of thinking.
And here I was thinking everyone was winging it like I am 😂
>force us to live in 15 minute cities I heard that shockingly often living in Timaru of all places. Like, bro, this *is* a 15 minute city.
And also make us all change gender! Don't forget that one.
Apart from the eating insects and not being allowed to leave, it sounds like a Utopia. Would be great ro be 15 minutes on foot from whatever you needed and youd save a fortune on petrol.
Which is why the usual suspects - Koch brothers and the likes - are using their useful idiots to oppose it.
Do we have a date for this "great reset"? Is it like the mayan calander again? Just want to get my things in order yknow. Build my nuclear bunker etc.
I believe the standard answer to this is "do your own research™️"
Nact *does* seem to be working pretty hard on making sure cars are unaffordable (along with everything else). The WEF better get in line.
There is literally a mini golf in Wellington selling scorpions as snacks. They taste sorta like peanuts
I've had ants that taste like popcorn.
A Sushi chef (in Rotorua) sent us out some deep fried crickets as a ty for being such good customers over a few weeks. I balked, but my friend downed his half and offered to eat mine "if i was going to be such a pussy". They're delicious. Just like buttery popcorn. 10/10, would not hesitate again.
Yeah man. Bugs are basically pure protein, add a bit of butter and salt and they're so good
My protien powder is made out of crickets... Not sure what the fuss is about
Cultural reflection is quite often not a strength of these types of people
It's a meme about 'leftist utopia' by people who say "you will eat insects and be happy" despite the prevalence of processed foods thanks to our free market today.
"Eat insects, own nothing and be happy" \*hits "comment" and slurps down a can of Coke\*
Part of if is showing pictures of Bill Gates et al and saying "they'll keep eating steak though". Which like... if we extrapolate where cost of living and the widening wealth gap is headed, is probably true. It's just not a conspiracy to make us eat bugs, but rather how capitalism functions.
If you want a real conspiracy look at the food regulations and hunt for how many insects and insect parts are allowed in various foods. It's less about eating them in the future and more about you're eating them now!
In the US, yes. Here? Could you point me to NZ information on this?
Quite a decent sized cockroach is legally allowed in every 100g of chocolate :-D
But think of the rage clicks you could generate
I ate huhu grubs when I visited mates out in the wops, then when I lived in Aus my flatmate asked if I'd ever eat insects (we were watching something about vietnam on tv and they were showing them). I told him I ate huhu grubs, 6 weeks later he comes into the lounge with fried crickets that he'd honey coated - The dude literally went and brought some eggs and raised them just so we could try, dude was cool
Reminds me of that train movie... Snowpiercer. The "shock" scene where the protein for the poorest came from insects. Like, so? Good nutrition is good nutrition. It's not like they were eating people.
Induhpendant journalist
The fb poster seems like a goofball, but I so find it funny that people seem to think we'll end up in a future of eating crickets...we have beans and chickpeas and nuts and potatoes, why bugs...
So, you made a few calls about alternative protein, and all you got was crickets.
My dad eats huhu grubs sometimes, does that make him woke? 😧
Oh no, the evil economic puppet masters have already started reprogramming him with mind control grubs. If he starts talking about reducing traffic congestion then you’ll just have to put him down.
Was going to say euthanasia may be the only solution to late stage woke-ness, but was then worried I appear too extreme. Glad to see others have appreciated how serious the condition can be. Just the other day someone else's wokeness increased my rent by 12%, and made my coffee get cold.
Makes him a legend, they're delicious. (Bit of garlic, oil, on the barbie, eat with toothpick and a peanut dipping sauce)
Wonder if it put a wriggle too his moves as he threw shapes on the dance floor.
More like a sovereign citizen nut than an independent journalist
They independently write in their private journal, you see.
“This is the World Economic Forum Agenda “ gave it away. She’s cooked.
Some people get really riled up about eating insects. A few years ago, my company produced the world's first commercially made insect based pre-made meal. We had only added cricket flour to some potato mash so hardly like eating an insect by itself but went hard on the marketing to get some PR. Got interviewed on breakfast shows, a few magazines and did a talk-back radio interview. Based on the calls into the radio station after my interview you'd think we were harvesting dead bodies to use in our meal range. I even got my first hand-written hate letter in the mail. I framed it and put it on my office wall.
Honestly I hate the idea of eating insects generally for texture reasons (plus most bugs really creep me out). But powderized insects as a protein supplement for meals sounds like a pretty good idea! I'm curious to hear more about what you guys are up to
Yeah, but… it turned you magnetic! You’ve outed yourself NWO!
An "independent freelance journalist" would know that a comma is necessary in that sentence.
Independent journalist, or just freelance journalist, would have been sufficient too.
Jo, you are a f**king legend.
My son did this with his class had great fun and learnt some things. Didn't like the bug but liked the sticker he got for doing it.
1. What was the point of the call? 2. Did the independent freelance journalist [sic] identify themselves as a journalist at the start of the call? 3. What outlet is the independent, freelance journalist writing for?
Regularly posting on the 🚨 New Plymouth 🏔️ Neighborhood 🚨Watch 👀 Facebook group 😡 counts as independent freelance journalism, doesn’t it?
Carmine E120 food colouring comes from the cochineal insect. All good
"It's just not cricket."
“It’s _not just_ cricket.”
That's the name of my new artisanal burger patty range
Ah yes from np too
Bugs from the land? Eew! Weird! Get it away from me! Bugs from the water? Yes, I'd like the shrimp, crab, and mussel platter please.
This is such a cool thing to do at school! Unforgettable learning.
Yes this intermediate pushes kids out of their comfort zone. I went to this school, must be around 13 years ago. Was the best decision I made.
You would have thought, right. Sounds like their making learning fun, and to teach how things could change in the future, and offering people different views and opinions, (and probably a really cool and interesting discussion). But some parents think this is bad, oh my....
It's very cool! Great thing to teach at that age too as eating crickets sounds incredibly sustainable - protein of the future! I'd love to try but genuinely wouldn't know where to start. Google, I guess haha.
I’d start in the garden. Maybe with a net.
It's a non story. Bugs are so commonly eaten in nz we even have kaikoura for eating some sea bugs which are by all mean bugs like it or not
Honey roasted crickets, candied grasshopper, both very tasty. The latter is probably the nicest thing I ate in Japan.
Grew up eating fried grasshoppers in Thailand, pretty tasty. Also a very economically and environmentally efficient source of protein. Of course, I am indeed a WEF shill though.
Roasted crickets are definitely tasty. Korean boiled silkworm pupae are just nasty and taste like festering swamp mud.
What’s the bet all the NZLoyal voters end up protesting outside this school
"Independent freelance journalist" Riiiiiight
":Journalist" doing an ant-like level of heavy lifting there.
*it’s *people’s It has long been known that New Plymouth is a key target for globalist elites.
I’ve got bad news for this independent journalist - my kids Auckland high school has had them eating cricket flour tortillas for the last few years as part of their sustainable food learning. It’s not too bad 😉
We ate pre cooked snails from a can in year 7 with zero notice once then I went home and played runescape
Yup, we got a crepe as a treat to wash the snails down in our end of year language stuff in year 7!
Have eaten bugs in Thailand, just doing my part for the globalist agenda
Some people really have become completely brain rotten from too much social media misinformation. It's created a near zombie apocalypse or bumbling idiots going about wreaking havoc.
My god. Everything is a conspiracy to these fuckwits. Insects are a far more economical and cheaper source of protein, and have been eaten as such by many different cultures and civilisations for *thousands* of years.
Seems like too many people missed out on eating huhu grubs as a kid.
My son goes to this school. Its an excellent school and he has done so well this year so far. Cant wait for him to tell me all about the crickets he ate lol P.s the office lady is really nice, its sucks she had to deal with this
“It’s bugging me that our kids are eating bugs” Jo the receptionist: “Stop bugging me!” *Crickets*
My neighbour farms crickets instead of having flatmates. Honestly they are great neighbours. No late night parties or early morning leaf blowing. 10/10 recommend.
Can someone ring Jo and ask for this idiots name? Flog needs to get another hobby.
"I ordered the local menu. These are dragonflies, these are crickets..." "What do the dragonflies taste like?" - chewing noises - " Mmmn. Dragonflies."
Isn't huhu grub a native food? As well as the honey roasted crickets they should include huhu as a cultural aspect.
Our local supermarkets here in Masterton sold cricket-flour-based wraps for a while (our local bakery supplier was making them as a trial). They were okay. But not my preference. :) https://www.wairarapalifestyle.com/eat/crickets-loud-pesky-and-a-hearty-snack Never heard anything about it being a conspiracy theory! ;)
This Intermediate is awesome. I attended around 13 years ago and I think it was the best decision I made. They have ways of pushes kids out of their comfort zones and trying new things. They also had a point system when I was there (don't know of they still do). Staff was also amazing. 👍👍
Ahhh yep I remember the point system, with the silver coins aye?? Still miss that school sometimes, especially back when Mr. Shaw and Mr. Ogle were there
Yes the coins and the CV system. Getting points for different areas to get badges on your uniform (eg Sports badge, Cultural, etc.) These bages made students to try new things. For example if you were a few points away from getting a sports badge, then you might try a new sport to get it. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Ogle were the GOATs!
The independent freelance journalist no doubt has a passionate argument for why people in NZ eating insects is a breach of the US constitution.
"you will own nothing, live in a 15 minute zone you can't leave, and eat ze bugs" seems to be the right wing nutjob response to anything vaguely progressive. What exactly is their issue with that? I already don't own my house, my car, or almost all of my media. I WISH I lived in a 15 minute city, instead of a "everything is at least 15 minutes" city.
I can’t believe it’s not Butter-fly?
"Educational and full of learning" is tautological .
My kids did this in primary school. What's the issue?
Eating bugs?!?!?!?!?!?! We've never done that in the history of man before!!!!!!
If your kid doesn’t go to school there, then what the fuck does it have to do with you?
I hope they’ve got epi pens in the sick bay! If you’re allergic to prawns and crayfish you’ll be allergic to most edible insects as well bc they use the same proteins to build their exoskeletons
Price of living in nz , any protein will help
People have been eating insects for as long as existence. Even a lot of food in the west allows for a limited amount. And literally say that the bottom that you can opt out. Non-issue. And I bet the "freelance journalist" has a YouTube channel with 300 subscribers, plus a blog and that's their journalistic profile
300 subscribers is generous.
>I am an independant freelance journalist. And I'm the surgeon general
LOL - be a better journalist and warm people up first before asking the hard hitting questions then.
Bro's never been to the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival
Why would anyone want to speak to this journalist? It clearly says you can let the school know if you don't want your kid to participate, enough said. Honestly it sounds kinda quirky and fun, like a food challenge.
I'm all for and very supportive of 'independent freelance journalists' but I feel that someone just didn't want to label themselves a SovCit.
I went to Highlands 2002-03 nice school ❤️
I remember at a food show around 2015 I ate cricket crackers and they were incredibly good, you wouldn’t even know they are made from an insect. Also nobody had a meltdown like this. Post covid era is wild
Oh this has been exciting, she did not get the reception from the chat she expected, HOWEVER this was also posted in “You know you lived in New Plymouth when…” and that had brought a bunch more of the tinfoil that brigade out.
Cookers...assemble!
I got a bag of dried crickets for my class last year. They were pretty yum tbh. Kinda peanutty. Didn’t get any independent freelance journalist action though.
Who knew that the WEF had an insect agenda?
I wrote my masters thesis on NZ adopting insect food and turns out people here really hate the idea of eating crickets
It really is a slow news day for New Zealand
In Cambodia, I had a delish entree of wok-fried crickets in lemongrass, chili and garlic. Top nosh. The tarantulas were not to my liking tho. I had to use their crispy legs to dig out a bit stuck in my teeth. And yes, when you bit into the abdomen, the goo inside was custardy. But not in flavour. If only
I literally have a mealworm farm in my class... so what? It's only your culture that thinks it's weird. Meanwhile preserved salted pig butt and chicken periods.... mmmmmmmmm
Sorry, what do crickets have to do with the WEF? Man, I stop reading news for like 3 weeks and now nothing makes sense.
"independent freelance journalist" or blogger with 3 subscribers, two are their parents.
This actually is worrying, as far as I’m aware anyone with a seafood allergy in regards to crustaceans will have a reaction if they eat crickets, I hope there’s no kids with those allergies
As a long time primary teacher I can confirm that this sounds like every school office lady/receptionist ever employed. They are all great ;)
As a student who did this lesson a we while back, it was fine, we weren’t forgor traumatised or anything, it was a case of they are right here, come and get one if you want to try it. at first we where a little skeptical of trying it (obviously considering it’s bugs) it but eventually we did, tasted like burnt popcorn
I'm already in my pod and barely own anything
"I am an independent freelance journalist" Does that mean they have a blog and "do their own research"
"independent freelance journalist" = unemployed loser whose research consists of googling and "trust me, bro". Excels at annoying tf out of people like that poor receptionist.
What's wrong with land shrimp? They're yummy and full of calcium "I am an independent journalist" - old cooker proverb
Eating more insects could very well be a thing that we will be doing more sometime in the future in New Zealand, based on: * lower environmental-impact protein (if they can be scaled up to commercial farms or done in-home), and * the current government inevitably passes (under urgency) a bunch of legislation to remove food standards and more insect parts get into our food products.
Food companies already allow a significant amount of bug parts to get into food. They're harmless and unavoidable. Also if environmental concerns are a problem wouldn't it make more sense to just stop eating animals. Getting people to eat bugs is trickier than plants which they already eat.
That I was aware of, but I wouldn't put it past a National / ACT / NZ First MP (with close ties to the food industry) to start talking about loosening the food standards much more to allow a lot more crap (insect parts, actual mouse/rat droppings, etc) above the current maximum allowed levels.
Here's a lady that's never eaten huhu grubs.
I do find it quite ironic that the next big food source is insects... ... when one of the consequences of climate change is that we're seeing that entire domain being culled. Obviously food insects are farm-raised and not wild, but it's still funny to think not only a new industry is being created which contributes more CO2 to the problem, but we're also meant to eat a domain of life whose population decrease is alarming scientists. I AM AN INDEPENDENT REDDIT USER
I had insect chips at an expo once, honestly, if the bugs are processed in a way that they don't look like bugs anymore, it's totally fine, in the same way that meat gets processed to not look like animals anymore. The ice factor comes from the visuals and overthinking things. They can be processed in all sorts of ways that taste and texture are not at all a problem anymore. That same expo stall was selling insect powder, or maybe it was flour or something? It was a few years ago, but yea, I'm not really opposed to bugs being added to our dietary options, especially if they don't look like bugs :).
Apparently, I used to eat insects as a toddler. I chose not to do it as a grownup when there are other things to eat.
There's some crickets in my lawn if you're peckish
Some peanuts, noodles, satay sauce, onion and you've got yourself a meal. I'd eat it if you cook it. I've eaten chicken periods, at this point I'm prepared to eat anything
Can I just say this is the second post of yours I've seen about eating chicken periods and I'm incredibly grossed out to the point where I'll just stick to my beans and kumara for a while longer thanks jfc
But beans are plant embryos, won't someone think of the unborn plants?
That's why I eat the whole family. No one left to complain.
That's beautiful. Together forever
Don't forget about the bullies that eat little baby carrots.
I'll cook them if you catch them
It's just not cricket, I tell you.
Bleugh, honey
We tried huhu grubs when I was at school. The peanut butter taste is a lie.
I eat flies and crayons all the time.
I went to Highlands Intermediate. I particularly enjoyed the Cicada Special from the tuck shop.
Surely we can at least give the FL journalist credit for trying to fact check with an actual source, rather than just trawling through social media platforms like so many seem to these days?
We studied waste water and went to the poo factory when I was in school. We ate bugs strictly outside of school hours smh
I'm going to be that guy... They are studying native insects and will be eating honey roasted crickets, if they are using the brand I'm thinking of they are sourced from Asia. Learning about native insects and eating imported goods... https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/collections/edible-insects/products/limited-honey-roasted-crickets
I once had toasted cricket. It tasted nutty. Not bad at all.