Europe Wishes You a Merry Cricketmas (They Want You to Eat Bugs)

Ho ho hornet stew

Journalists and other liberals really want you to eat bugs. And worms. And larvae. And other repulsive little creatures. Until now, the pitch has been that eating bugs will save the planet. Eating cows and chicken and pigs is bad for Gaia, supposedly. But now they’re switching to a new argument: “We’ve made actual food too expensive. But now you lucky people will be allowed to bugs. You’re welcome!”

In Europe, at least. Now those unwashed whiteys can go to the store and buy some grub. By which I mean grubs.

Archie Hunter, Bloomberg Quint:

Crunchy, nutritious and now likely to hit dinner plates and supermarket isles; three types of bugs have now been certified as food fit for human consumption by the European Union.

European member states have recently approved house crickets, yellow mealworms and grasshoppers as so-called ‘novel foods’ which provides regulation for new them (sic) to be brought to market.

The bugs are permitted to be sold in frozen, dried and powdered forms.

Frozen bugs, yum! Who’s up for a pupa-sicle?

These foods are novel in the same way the COVID-19 virus is novel. Which is fitting, because I’d rather become a victim of the pandemic than wittingly ingest a cricket, mealworm, or grasshopper.