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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

XKCD 1268 by Randall Munroe (CC BY-NC 2.5).

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Imagine you were transported to an alternate universe just like your own, except people occasionally ate spiders. You can't convince anyone this is weird. [[Two figures stand. A woman is holding a big spider. The other figure looks shocked. There is another spider on the floor.]] Woman: Mmm... Figure: No! What are you doing!? This is how I feel about lobster.

{{Title text: As best as I can tell, I was transported here from Earth Prime sometime in the late 1990s. Your universe is identical in every way, except for the lobster thing and the thing where some of you occasionally change your clocks for some reason.}}

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It wouldn’t be weird to land bugs if they had that tasty meat crustaceans do. I’m big for alternative sources of protein like bugs, but the fact is they taste like shit.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

chinese proverb: everything is tasty if you fry it enough.

[–] gonzo0815 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ate fried bugs. Can confirm they aren't tasty at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You weren't supposed to use motor oil

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there were 2lb spiders that taste like lobster roaming around on land I would sure as fuck be out in the woods with a net every weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Interesting. So, what bugs have you eaten?

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

I have it on pretty good authority of the film Snowpiercer that bug bars are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I tried a mealworm chocolate bar once. Can NOT confirm.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they're surrounded by water all the time

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And presalted lol.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sea bugs are delicious and have more meat than land bugs, I've eat crickets before and it's 80% bones/ definitely not meat and 20% actual meat

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You’ve eaten interesting crickets. Those that I know have no bones.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exoskeleton is still a form of bone, I use bone because it's shorter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not though. Bone is a fundamentally different material.

We knew what you meant, mind.

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

The bones of my house are also fundamentally different material to human bones. Not really sure what point I'm trying to make here but there you go

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You're thinking of in bones. Crickets have out bones.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Snail is a "bug" and it's 100% meat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

And you have escargot for just that. Guess I'm missing your point.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, I ate fried grasshopper once and it tasted exactly like shrimp.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh, I cannot tell if this makes me more or less interested, and I love shrimp.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

When I think too much about it, eating any meat really does gross me out. I still do but occasionally get tempted to try going vegetarian or something. I'm just too damn lazy

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Even before I went vegan I never understood seafood. Who wants to tear a crab leg apart for a tiny bit of meat?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely love both the flavor of the meat and the feeling of ripping it apart with my hands.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The meat is that good.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Fuck yes, people freak out about eating crickets or shit but then proceed to eat a huge spiderlike creature that's mushy inside (crabs)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, I had ice cream with crickets all over them, and honestly it had a kind of woody / pukey aftertaste that I couldn't get through. I wondered if part of the problem is you can't de-vein the little things. Aren't you basically eating their shit?

I can de-vein a shrimp, and I only care for lobster tail.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Wet bugs are very distantly related to earth bugs.

Won't you eat chicken just because pidgeons are disgusting? (yet also eaten sometimes)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pigeons are delicious though

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, wet bug meat are actually tasty, those land bugs are mostly chitin shells and not much protein, also the taste is not good.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

2 billion insects eaters over 7 billion humans worldwide to be exact

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact... lobster and crayfish were so disdained once that it was literally only used to feed prisoners.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The practice was to grind the whole thing up into a paste, but yes it's all about perception and preparation.

That said I'd be drawing my vegetarian card if someone offered me Beetle Bisque

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

*Preserved crawfish and lobster, which tastes like shit because it's been transported in a barrel for many days.

Most of what we eat today is either fresh or frozen, not mushy decomposing meat.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We don't eat the crunchy bits of our wet bugs. And their flesh is delicious.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Aka [Eating bugs without knowing you're eating bugs]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I do sincerely worry about insects being added as filler materials as time goes on. I have a shellfish allergy, and the same allergens that exist in the shells of shellfish also exist in most insects.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Top right image just needs more Old Bay

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