Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Native Bird Blogging

Beattie, who worked in the Chathams for 15 years, said weka were delicious, and make chicken look bland and greasy by comparison.

If approved for commercial farming, Beattie planned to sell weka breeding pairs to farmers and lifestyle-land owners. He estimated the birds could return $2000 per hectare.


It turns out that this was all a misunderstanding -- he actually said weta, but the journalists misheard him.

14 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

I submitted a comment.

It is being moderationed.
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Smut Clyde said...

I find it difficult to believe that we have a Moderate option set up here. What probably happened is that you were trying to hack in to delete a duplicate comment, and destroyed the wrong one.

M. Bouffant said...

Oh gawd, we've already had emu & ostrich meat scams here in these United Snakes.

(And I hear rattlesnake tastes just like chicken, also.)

Fortunately, torucin will clear up anything you get from the ostrich meat.

Jennifer said...

Weka! Pfffft! I believe scientists just grew morepork in a petri dish. Oh... wait...

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Not here, S.C., over there.

I was surprised, yet encouraged, to see someone promoting giant cricket cuisine.
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Substance McGravitas said...

Recycling comment.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Roger Beattie, a Banks Peninsula farmer, is keen on weka

Insert Ernie Anastos comment...

I was surprised, yet encouraged, to see someone promoting giant cricket cuisine.

Baby, don't knock entomophagy until you try it, although those wetas are roasters, not fryers.

Word verification-anest

I think the t00bz have become self-aware, and I will be fleeing to the hills soon.

mikey said...

Wow. According to Wiki, Wekas eat Wetas. Wonderful.

Hey Capcha. What comes after terabled?

Of course. petabled...

Smut Clyde said...

Recycling comment.

That was the definitive weta recipe thread, and the randomised sequence of comments is actually an improvement.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Beattie, who worked in the Chathams for 15 years, said weka were delicious, and make chicken look bland and greasy by comparison.

Emphasis mine...

An interesting choice of words, to be sure. Once you go weka, the chickens forsake ya!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Wow. According to Wiki, Wekas eat Wetas


wiki weta woo.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

And when tigris starts HER OWN BLOG we can send the birthday wishes there as well.
Peer pressure!
And one by one, we all fall for it.
All S.McBubba's fault, of course.


Uh... succumbed to the dark side...

Word verification- ineescab

Little kid has a boo-boo.

Smut Clyde said...

believe scientists just grew morepork in a petri dish

"What did you do in your visit to London, Daddy?"

"I wandered around the Petrie Museum of Egyptology on Malet Place, noting down the catalog numbers of any images that might go with the word 'morepork'."
NSFW (but relevant to my interests).
Also, this is not a Kush.

Another Kiwi said...

I believe Richard Prebble (translation for furryners: Far Right arsehole) has suggested saving the Kakapo by eatin' them. One hopes this strategy does not extend to Mercury Island Tusked Wetas whom one loves but not in a culinary sense