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.
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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.
ReplyDeleteOh gawd, we've already had emu & ostrich meat scams here in these United Snakes.
ReplyDelete(And I hear rattlesnake tastes just like chicken, also.)
Fortunately, torucin will clear up anything you get from the ostrich meat.
Weka! Pfffft! I believe scientists just grew morepork in a petri dish. Oh... wait...
ReplyDeleteNot here, S.C., over there.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised, yet encouraged, to see someone promoting giant cricket cuisine.
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ReplyDeleteRoger Beattie, a Banks Peninsula farmer, is keen on weka
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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.
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I think the t00bz have become self-aware, and I will be fleeing to the hills soon.
Wow. According to Wiki, Wekas eat Wetas. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteHey Capcha. What comes after terabled?
Of course. petabled...
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ReplyDeleteThat was the definitive weta recipe thread, and the randomised sequence of comments is actually an improvement.
Beattie, who worked in the Chathams for 15 years, said weka were delicious, and make chicken look bland and greasy by comparison.
ReplyDeleteEmphasis mine...
An interesting choice of words, to be sure. Once you go weka, the chickens forsake ya!
Wow. According to Wiki, Wekas eat Wetas
ReplyDeletewiki weta woo.
And when tigris starts HER OWN BLOG we can send the birthday wishes there as well.
ReplyDeletePeer pressure!
And one by one, we all fall for it.
All S.McBubba's fault, of course.
Uh... succumbed to the dark side...
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Little kid has a boo-boo.
believe scientists just grew morepork in a petri dish
ReplyDelete"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.
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
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