Petre Daea says he doesn’t understand how you can eat a cockroach. The Minister of Agriculture stated that “you still see cockroaches on the stairs of the building.” “How the hell do you put that in your mouth?” he asked, noting that no EU directive can tell people what to eat. He also said that “saliva doesn’t start with a directive, it starts with a taste”, and if someone drools over a cockroach, he can eat it because no one is stopping him.

“Would you believe we started eating a kitchen cockroach… Have you ever seen a kitchen cockroach? It can also be seen on the steps of the block. You don’t even want to enter the bloc, how the hell are you going to put it in your mouth?” Social Democratic Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea said Sunday night on Antena 3, according to News.ro.

When asked how he can protect Romanians from “a wave of cockroaches and roaches,” the minister replied: “I’ll tell you what you have to do. At the moment, we have food in Romania, where to produce it in Romania, we have soil in Romania, we have the ability to raise animals in Romania, we have the ability to feed ourselves with everything we have in this extraordinary perimeter… “.

He was also asked if there was a risk that a directive would come from the European Union telling us to stop eating pork, but something else.

“Saliva does not start from the directive. Saliva starts with taste. If you taste it and it makes you salivate, if you salivate for a bug, you will eat it. No one is stopping you,” Petre Daea added.

The PSD minister also said that we must “preserve our identity, preserve our traditions, preserve our gastronomic heritage and use it at the same time.”