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2019-11-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Fancy a Bug Mac? UK farm launches WORM burgers in bid to save the planet - and creator claims they're tastier than beef

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Not Bee?
AYFKM?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 01:03|| 2019-11-07 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Years ago there was a rumor that McDonald's used ground earthworms in their burgers. An executive VP at the fast food giant commented they'd never do that because worms cost more per pound than ground beef.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 01:06|| 2019-11-07 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Food for worms, lads... or is it worms for food?

It's so confusing

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 01:14|| 2019-11-07 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Next CEO's from Denmark:

KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?

HAMLET At supper.

KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where?

HAMLET Why, Mickey D's, thou rogue and peasant slave! Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your wormburger is your only emperor for diet...I'm lovin' it ;-)

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 01:21|| 2019-11-07 01:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Tastes like chicken.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-07 01:24|| 2019-11-07 01:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Soylant yellow is made of worms!

Sort of an admission that veggie-burgers no matter what they might claim are not really a replacement for beef. Vat created meat might replace beef but our taste buds are trained on thousands of years of tasty cattle and the can't be fooled easily.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-07 10:04|| 2019-11-07 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Eat them before they eat you

Posted by European Conservative 2019-11-07 14:40|| 2019-11-07 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The Diet of Worms, redux

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 14:52|| 2019-11-07 14:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Not kosher.

Separately, Lex wins. We’ve had an unnoticed Shakespeare shortage for some time.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-07 15:16|| 2019-11-07 15:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks two... but I was hoping for a bit more competition from EC.

Worms is a pretty easy figure to riff on, if you like your medieval/renaissance metaphors...

Once more unto the breach, EC!

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 15:28|| 2019-11-07 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 That's too easy:

CLAUDIUS
At supper where?

HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-11-07 15:52|| 2019-11-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Þan sayd þe son, “Horrybil bestes restys with þe.” Þe voice sayd, “Thow sal cum and reste with me.” Þan sayd þe son, “Thy fayr flesche falls and fadys away.” “Son, so sal þine do, þat is now so gay.”

(A Disputation Betwyx þe Body and Wormes”, 15th century manuscript)

Posted by European Conservative 2019-11-07 16:00|| 2019-11-07 16:00|| Front Page Top

#13 While I don't know no Shakespeare...

'And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.' - Book of Exodus

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'But then the Saxons said, We would yet eat. And they ground them up for to save the land; For in that day it was believed among the heathen that if they ate any meat, the world itself perish.

Then the Lord (probably) said to Moses, See that thou stay away from that wretched isle, for they are a people with a head like flint.' - Dron, the meshuganeh's Apocrypha

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-07 16:07|| 2019-11-07 16:07|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ any red meat

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-07 16:14|| 2019-11-07 16:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Wheeeeeee!!! I am so happy right now — I haven’t the words to tell you how happy I am.

Ok: my ruling is that Lex and European Conservative are tied for winning the thread, and Dron66046 gets an very honourable mention.

And I get to remember my mother explaining what fun she had shocking her English professor at NYU by reading Chaucer aloud as if it were modern Dutch — it works perfectly that way, though Flemish is, in Mama’s considered opinion, almost nearly as good.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-07 23:39|| 2019-11-07 23:39|| Front Page Top

23:39 trailing wife
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