The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Mother Feeds Her 18 Month Old Baby Crickets

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

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I was donkey of the day, made it! Damn, the hee-haw again? It's time for donkey of the day. I ain't trying to be donkey of the day no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. Called donkey of the day and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Charlemagne, who got the donkey of the day today?

Well, Jess Hilarious, donkey of the Day for Wednesday, April 26th goes to a young Canadian woman named Tiffany Leigh. Look, man, economies all over the world have been hit hard. People are looking for ways to save money, and this way that I heard today is absolutely something new. It's something that I've never heard before. See, Tiffany has revealed to the world what it is she feeds her 18-month-old daughter

to provide her with protein. Now, listen listen very important to note that tiffany lay is a food writer from toronto canada so she has traveled the world uh eating let's just say unique dishes so what is it that she is feeding her 18 month old daughter gary and envy you want to take a guess dog food nope cat food nope nope. Nope. I hope it's not. Never mind. I don't want to go there. We'll go there. Fluids that come out of a man. No.

Jesus Christ, Gary. You're dark today. I don't know. Donkey of the day. You got to go hard. Go home. Sorry, C. Play on words. She's feeding her kids.

She's feeding her kids what most comedians get when they tell their first joke, and that's crickets. Okay? Good old-fashioned cricket puffs it says cricket puffs which look like cheetos but taste far less salty and have a fibrous finish she also gives her daughters whole roasted crickets what in the timon and pumbaa hakuna matata simba eating grub when he really wants zebra did you check with a pediatrician before you put your 18 month old on this diet ass nonsense is going on here now i did some research and by research i mean googled and come to find out crickets are a good source of vitamins minerals and fiber in addition to protein crickets are high in many other nutrients including fat calcium

potassium zinc magnesium copper uh and a bunch of other things i can't pronounce except for iron okay one study found that the iron content of crickets was 180 percent higher than that of beef. Now, I don't do red meat anymore because, as I just told you, my calcium score was a 76 and my cholesterol was high a couple of months ago. It's since dropped. But red meat is a wrap for me. But not once in all the alternatives I thought about in regard to the red meat have I thought about crickets. OK, you know why? Because I am not a snake, a frog, a toad, a rat, a bat, a mice or a small bird. OK, those are all common cricket predators. I know. I know. Tiffany Lay is a food writer and she's visited Asia. I'm sure a lot of y'all who have visited Asia have tried insects like she has. In fact, she said the first time she tried insects was in Asia. She said she tasted everything from fried tarantula legs to scorpion on a stick.

And she loved how the critters were incorporated into local dishes to enhance their textural appeal. Textural appeal. Tiffany, if you want something crunchy, why bypass a great piece of fried chicken for a cricket. There is even places all over this world where you can get crispy chicken, fresh lettuce, three cheeses, ranch dressing, wrapped up in a tasty flour tortilla. But no, you want crispy cricket wraps, Mary J. Y. Okay? I didn't grow up rich at all. All right?

Dirt road, Moncks Corner, South Carolina, single wide trailer. Never did we get to the point where we had to eat bugs. And I want better for this baby even though they say insects are safe to eat especially crickets and mealworms but some insects are a potential zoonotic risk because they may transfer bacteria viruses parasites and fungi okay all i'm saying is the same way adults have to consult with a doctor before they begin a diet someone needs to meet with a pediatrician to make sure their kids have been green lighted to eat crickets. What makes this story worse is that Tiffany admitted when her daughter first

ate the crickets, she didn't like them, but Tiffany crushed it up in her food, put it in her mac and cheese sauce or pancake mix. And then she says she liked it. That is deceitful. And I don't think this baby likes the crickets. She likes everything surrounding the crickets. Okay. I personally don't believe kids should be forced to eat bugs until they are of the age to make their own dietary decisions about bugs.

I don't care how tasty Timon and Pumbaa make bugs sound. This is clearly a slow donkey of the day day. I mean, there's so much stuff in the world and this is what you came up with that means it was a great day this is a really good day if the donkey of the day is a woman giving her kids crickets so you don't think she's wrong?

I'm not saying she's right or wrong you've gone hard on some donkey of the days this isn't going that hard this isn't that bad you make me want to open up the phones then. Maybe I'm tripping. Now you got me questioning whether or not Tiffany Leigh should have gotten donkey today. Listen, you do this

every day. Not every day is going to be a huge donkey today. That is true. I'd be more offended if she fed her daughter donkeys than crickets. Honestly. Why? I've been to Asia. People eat crickets all the time.

That is very true. You know what I mean? Damn, so is this a regular thing? Are people just out here eating crickets? Let me ask you this. What if that daughter ends up being uber successful, has no health problems in the future? Because we just talked about a colonoscopy, all that stuff.

What if 30, 40 years from now, we're like, dang, there's something to that. That is a good point. Damn. How about that? Maybe I need to that. That is a good point. Damn. How about that? Maybe I need to go to Breakfast Club Court, then. No, I mean, I'm saying it's not. You have a hard job.

You wrote that today. Don't make me feel good about this, Gary. You wrote that all today? You already said what you said. But you wrote that all today? Yes. That was good. That was good.

I'm just saying it was a slow day for Doggy Today. Dang, maybe we should open up the phone. Maybe crickets is a regular thing. And I don't know. It is. They do the phone. Maybe crickets is a regular thing. And I don't know. It is. But they do package them. I bet you they're chocolate covered. Guarantee some of those chocolate covered.

I've heard of the chocolate covered crickets. And these aren't cricket puffs. They were like Cheetos. You want to play a game? What about, do you eat frog legs in South Carolina? I've had frog legs. I've had frog legs. You want to, we can play a game.

Turtle soup? I've never had turtle soup. I don't eat turtle soup. Let's play a game. And then let's open up the phone lines. Okay. Let's play a game. Turtle soup? I've never had turtle soup. I don't eat turtle soup. Let's play a game, and then let's open up the phone lines. Okay. Let's play a game of Guess What Race It Is. All right.

Let's listen. All right. Tiffany Lay. Tiffany Lay. She's a food writer from Canada. She's traveled the world eating all types of dishes. First tried insects in Asia. DJ Envy.

Guess What Race It Is. Guess what race it is. It's a tough one. Feeding their kids. 18-month-old crickets. I got to go Asian. Oh, don't you play nothing. You study, you dare it. Okay.

We don't think we have any Asian drops. Okay. Gary. What's her name? Tiffany Lay. Tiffany Lay. White. Spelled L-E-I-G-H.

She's traveled the world. She's a food writer. Feeding her 18-month-old crickets. Yeah, she white. You think she's white? She thinks she's white. Yeah. All right.

Let me look at this picture one more time before I make this call. What is it? You know what? DJ Envy? Uh-oh. I think you're correct. Yes! I won!

He looks Asian to me. He don't look Asian to you. Let me see if I can see it. Uh-oh. Come here, Gary. He don't look Asian to you? Am I right or wrong? Korean.

Shut up, man. I was going to say Asian, but he said it. You could have said what I said. It's the clues. Tiffany. But it's not only that. You feed your kids that because maybe that's something that you learned or that you know that's in your background. I just think you should let your kid make their own

dietary decisions. 18 months old. I mean, when it comes to bugs at least. She's not taking crickets out of the grass. How do we know that? How do we know she's not? That's true too. I mean, she did give her some Cheetos type crickets. I forgot what the name was.

Let's open up the phone lines. Let's take Charlamagne to Breakfast Club Court. Come on. I don't even think we should do that. Let's just see if she's deserving of Donkey of the Day. All right. Well, that's taking you to court. 800-585-1051.

Should she get Donkey of the Day? Okay. This young lady, she fed her kids crickets. Wait. The way you guys are presenting this is all wrong. How? She's just giving her kids some food that we think is not normal.

That's what I'm saying. You're right. In her world, it's normal. That's why we're asking if she can be like, don't give her kids pig intestines. Chitlins. And by the way, that seems very strange to some people. So if somebody gave their kids chitlins, what race would you say it is? Never mind. Don't you dare.

I might be being very judgmental here, you know, and I might need to very strange to some people. So if somebody gave their kids chitlins, what race would you say it is? Never mind. Don't you dare. Oh my gosh. I might be being very judgmental here, you know, and I might need to mind my business. Let's open the phone lines and see. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss. Charlamagne,

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