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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized. Otherwise you’d have Red Locust and all you can eat grasshopper legs.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 28 points 10 months ago

Unlimited soup, salad, and stickbugs.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s this. We don’t eat the shells/outsides of lobster (at least most probably don’t). I don’t want to eat exoskeleton.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, chitin is really hard to digest and sensitive stomachs will have issues.

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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized.

take it back

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Idk. There are some big fucking snails out there

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Snails are good, too. Creamy and tender, reminded me of scallops.

They were doused in butter/garlic, so that may have been part of the reason, but still

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Snails are used in some cuisines (France). I've had them. They're not bad.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Snails are an excuse for the French to down a stick of butter.

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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah but they're molluscs.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

The line of arthropods that broke off to become Insecta did so in the Devonian Period, roughly 400 million years ago. Centipedes evolved in the fucking Silurian. Comparing these two groups is kinda like comparing raccoons, possums, and platypuses to fish.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Ichthyophobia isn't cool. Take your hateful beliefs elsewhere.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tell yourself what er you need to in order to enjoy that crawfish.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

dont need to tell anything just need to eat it

[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I'll tell myself it's juicy and delicious

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

They are more similar that at least I used to think.

https://youtu.be/bt7nC52GrmM

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[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 25 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Idk where this myth started from but shrimp and lobsters are crustaceans, a separate class of arthropods within the phylum arthropoda. arthropoda is a massive phylum and bugs belong to the class insecta. lobsters and shrimp belong to crustacea so calling shrimp bugs is like calling whales hippos because they're both from the clade artiodactyla /nerdmode off

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

One of the definitions of bug is "small arthropod with many legs"

Take your nerdmode into the shop, its database is defective.

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

Fixing the bugs

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 months ago

one side takes regular baths.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

lukewarm coffee: gross

hot coffee: great

it's almost as if different things are different

[–] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You mentioned the same thing, at different temperatures. It's literally the same THING.

A shrimp is not the same thing as a Megaloblatta Longipennis.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Thought you were just shitposting with that name...

Now I just wish you were.

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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

i Don't eat cereal without bugs, why would i eat my Water without Them?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Shrimps are pretty rich

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They’re different, scorpion isn’t as sweet as lobster meat.

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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I've started going off it, not sure why.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Non-alarmist answer: tastes can change over time for no real reason. Some mild reasons it could change is pallet fatigue, prep and cook time seeming not worth it and so you crave it less, and changes in overall perception. A person who is slowly becoming vegan for moral or health reasons will naturally stop wanting certain meat products.

Alarmist answer: I don't know man. You've probably got some weird cancer or something.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*palate fatigue

I work in wine importing so this is a mistake I make all the damn time.

pallet- thing used to strap stuff to so they can be put on containers (for container trucks and ships).

palate - roof of your mouth or an alternate word for your taste

Palette- painter’s thing for holding paint.

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[–] felsiq@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Increasingly alarmist answer: you’ve heard about eyestalk ablation and it’s subconsciously ruining your enjoyment of farmed shrimp

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Im only down with eating clean bugs that are large enough to have enough substance to be worthwhile or whatever makes it into processed foods and “foods” that I eat (jelly beans arent really food and frequently have shellac and that comes from a specific beetle.)

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Counterpoint: lobster is delicious

Why are you okay eating cow meat and not house cat meat?

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

House cats: overwhelming over weight so mostly fat. And not the type that pigs and cows are. Feral cats: riddled with diseases and malnourished.

Cows: mostly muscle and with a marbling of fat.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Why are you making assumptions about what I'm ok with?

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I don't eat either of them

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