The media keeps trying to make eating bugs a thing. They're playing the same game they played with gas stove bans -- 1.) they're not happening, 2.) it's a right-wing conspiracy, 3.) okay, it's happening, 4.) here's why it's a good thing it's happening.
We're not eating the bugs. The journalists at CBS and every other outlet are free to chomp on some deep fried cicadas, but we'll stick with chicken and steak, thanks.
You deserve a treat – and this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply. Here are some cicada recipes to try. https://t.co/jXRt3pBh6Y
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 10, 2024
You deserve a treat – and this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply. Trillions of cicadas are emerging from the ground after a years-long absence, and any one of them could be part of your next meal.
Yes, you can eat the Brood XIX and Brood XIII cicadas. And this is how to do it.
During a different cicada emergence in 2021, Montclair State University Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cortni Borgerson said that the insects, which only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years, can be a valuable source of food. In many areas of the world, eating insects is a staple.
It's so telling what their vision for our collective future is if they think eating cicadas is a 'treat' in any way, shape, and form.
my favorite cicada recipe is to feed them to a chicken, then eat the chicken
— Rani, Last of The Red Hot Boomers (@ShadesOfRani) May 10, 2024
Ours, too.
Get bent.
— Slainté 🇺🇸 (@TMichaelByrne1) May 10, 2024
Amen.
Great hire for the food and wine section! pic.twitter.com/cAfkfyT7Jb
— Scott Coleman (@bandphan) May 10, 2024
Hahahahaha.
The bugs eating Walter Cronkite are spinning in his grave...
— The Hanford Institute 🐶 (@ThiccInstitute) May 10, 2024
Yes they are.
CBS had good journalists once upon a time…many years ago. pic.twitter.com/2kIa2Yvx5e
— Calvin 𝕏 🎙🍿🇮🇱🏴🏴☠️ (@DarthCalvin) May 10, 2024
A long, long time ago.
Remember - the people telling you to eat the bugs will never, ever eat the bugs.
— Arthur X. Fortune (@CBove1) May 10, 2024
The people telling you to do without AC in the summer will never, ever do without AC in the summer.
The people telling you to live in the pods will never, ever live in the pods.
They are the embodiment of 'rules for thee, but not for me.'
Make it very clear their rules don't apply to us, either.
You first. The whole newsroom. On air.
— SGT Mortis Von Gobbleshanks (@WitchyDruss) May 10, 2024
And if anyone makes a face, they lose.
Also, still not eating the bugs. Even if they do this.
I prefer steak. pic.twitter.com/XvhwYiQRll
— Rhetoric Facer 🇺🇸 (@John_Monahan) May 10, 2024
So do we.
We also see what you did there.
Oh you missed the best one. Here... try this:
— Ken (@KenJSDev) May 10, 2024
- 5 Cicadas
- 8 ounces of Avocado Oil
- A pinch of Adobo and Lemon Pepper
Mix all of this in a bowl until everything looks to be evenly covered.
Now you can shove them up your ass one by one if you think this is going to catch on.
Brutal, but fair.
Yeah, sure. Then you tell us there is some sort of cicada flu and we will all die from consuming them or that cicadas can cause your chloresterol to rise or something dire.
— NanaBanana (@EmJHarris2) May 10, 2024
Oh, bank on it.
There will be some 'problematic' issue with cicadas down the road and we won't be able to eat them, either.
You deserve a helicopter. https://t.co/y6sAy2ABlS
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 10, 2024
He said it, not us.
Yeah, remember when eating bugs was a racist, right-wing conspiracy?
https://t.co/bWDDQKzx70 pic.twitter.com/qMoaaeEAuq
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) May 10, 2024
Good times.
Ask yourself: Why is the media trying to get us to eat bugs? https://t.co/yUOUO4uWgy
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 10, 2024
We all know why.
You first, goofballs. https://t.co/P4yOYoeXLj
— Deebs (@DeebsFLA) May 10, 2024
First and last.
Cause we're still not eating the bugs.
Go to hell and take your ratio with you. https://t.co/k36D9YRuUl
— Oscar Von Reuenthal (@OscarVReuenthal) May 10, 2024
It's quite the ratio.
There are rarely enough cicadas around because my husband's dog eats them.
— Sensurround (@ShamashAran) May 10, 2024
He eats cat poop so that doesnt say much for the taste of them https://t.co/jTBq09uO6m
Ew.
I have something that CBS News can eat, but saying what it is would get me booted from X. https://t.co/7U6fo54Ypr
— H.L. Chiselfritz (@RotNScoundrel) May 10, 2024
We can imagine what it might be, though.
Understand, they want us enslaved without access to all the things they have access to.
— JD Sharp (@imjdsharp) May 10, 2024
The headline rhetoric alone, "You deserve a treat, here's a bug." is extremely demeaning.
They've become completely emboldened. https://t.co/whpLOF908T
We're glad we're not the only ones who caught the 'bugs = treat' line.
Says a lot about how they envision our lives: miserable, where we get a 'treat' of bugs every 17 years.
Hard pass, CBS.
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