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shrimp is bugs (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (8 children)

If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

Some are and I do.

Hoppers roasted, grilled, and fried are pretty damn good.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Well.. They are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (13 children)

A family member has bit, hook, line and sinker. Om the great reset conspiracy theory. He says Bill Gates wants to force us to eat bugs. I respond "You love shrimp?". He states its different I don't see the difference..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bill Gates came to my house last night with a gun and a plate of cockroaches.

He told me if I didn’t eat it he would shoot my family and shoot me last.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Listen, he should've at least offered to kill you first. That's the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Crustaceans aren't insects, for starters

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun lobster fact: They used to feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts because they were considered unclean animals since they crawled along the ocean floor and nobody else would eat them.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact about that fun fact. They ground them up shell and all before serving them to the prisoners so yeah it was still garbage food.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

crunch

Mmmm, gourmet

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Recently, we were in the canteen at work and a colleague, who moved here a few years ago, told that she never had rhubarb before.

Then she asked me, probably just for vocab reasons: Rhubarb is a vegetable?

Uhh...

I had never thought about it. I mean, what the heck is this:

Could be a salad, a leafy green. It's kind of similar to celery, but is celery even a vegetable? Well, and of course, rhubarb is often used like a fruit, so uh...

Well, I looked it up, and scientifically, it does count as a vegetable, but colloquially, it's often considered a fruit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Like today's computer scientists, early biologists sucked at inventing new words, and simply reused existing ones. "Berry" in common language is a small, usually sweet and edible, fruit. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are all berries.

Then biologists came along and decided, actually, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are out, but watermelon and bananas are in, because the size of the fruit doesn't matter, only the placement of the seeds decides whether something is a proper, scientific berry.

A similar thing has happened with "fruit" and "vegetable", where scientific fruits include cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins. Luckily, all three of these are also berries.

I say we ignore them, and use words to mean sensible things.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Or we move on with our lives and accept that fruit don't have to be sweet and vegetables don't have to be savory. Life is beautiful and nature constantly challenges expectations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

🅱️erries

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them "βerries", next one "ϐerries" (cursive beta)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Γerries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Pronounced "cherries"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply "food"

simple yet accurate. I'm a scientist now.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Rhubarb is pretty weird, especially for people who grew up where it's not a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bugs is good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Not all, shrimp is kinda gross TBH. But I'm excited to try new cicada recipes this summer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You refuse to eat bugs because they are "disgusting and gross"

I refuse to eat bugs because I love them too much. We are not the same.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m allergic. No bugs for me!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If true I can respect it. Shellfish is a common allergy and I can imagine the same for arthropods.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

If you're allergic to shellfish, there's a high chance that you're also allergic to insects

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crawfish are literally called mud bugs in a lot of places. I think lobsters and langoustines should also be under the bug umbrella.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

guy on the right knows shellfish and bugs are equally gross

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And will still eat both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

just to spite the middle people and see their reactions while chewing ocean bugs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Hot take: Bugs is shrimp?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

And I eat snails, so what?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

*wet bug

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Rollie pollies is shellfish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I’m allergic so: Insects or Crustacea = disgusting. Cockroaches of the sea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I have a very open view towards food that is served to me (in good faith). If you honor me by serving me a meal you enjoy I will eat it, whatever it is. If you serve me live cockroaches while laughing I'm not going to say what I'd do, bad faith gets bad actions. But I never choose to eat shrimp unless they're served to me. I ate some last week unfortunately. In context, it wasn't terrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll eat crawdads all day. But the WEF can keep their crickets.

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