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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

how tf can you call seafood wet bugs????

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Unlimited soup, salad, and stickbugs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Cricket powder is good fucking sports nutrition, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I tried cricket protein bars once and they made me shit like a horse. The chitin is not separated from the protein, and it is a LOT of fiber.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The pure carnivores have a way to poop healthy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm almost positive the chitin is filtered out somehow. Or hell, maybe it's left in there for some reason by design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

So it's possible!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Idk. There are some big fucking snails out there

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

dont need to tell anything just need to eat it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

https://youtu.be/bt7nC52GrmM

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] diemartin 22 points 1 week ago

Fixing the bugs

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

one side takes regular baths.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Shrimps are pretty rich

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think I read somewhere that tarantulas taste like shrimp

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

Counterpoint: lobster is delicious

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Wow so what youre saying is that youre okay eating one but not the other because one tastes better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Frankly, if you're looking at the morality of eating meat, this is as good a stance as any.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't eat either of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Availability is likely a factor here. House cats are everywhere, but professionally prepared cat meat is not. If it was in the cooler at your local walmart and priced comparably to beef, we'd see a lot more people eating cat. If the taste and texture are better than beef, we'd probably even start to see a market shift as more and more people start thinking of them as food instead of pets.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I can't fit a cow in my house, and it's not generally cute and cuddly, so it must die instead. But seriously though, are cats even delicious?

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

cow [... i]s not generally cute and cuddly

You couldn't be further from the truth.

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

Fiiiiine, they are cute. And maaaaaybe cuddly, even though they tend to smell if they've been outside all day. ^And^ ^they^ ^are^ ^delicious.^

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

even though they tend to smell if they've been outside all day.

So do cats and dogs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, but I keep my cats inside, so they smell really nice. Too nice... maybe I do want to eat them after all.

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

Technically modern insects are descended from shrimp and lobster, so this is bugs good vs dry bugs bad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No they aren't lol, nothing alive now is descended from anything else alive now.

They are somewhat related in the broad scheme of things, but not that close when you dig a bit deeper. They share a common ancestor about 400 million years ago (1, 2), whereas we share a common ancestor with them about 530 million years ago. Considering the more than 2 billion year history of life, you could say we are almost as related to them as they are to each other. It's true that this was during the Cambrian explosion (3) so we are about as distantly removed from them as animals can be, and differentiation of biological features slowed down a bit after that, but still, true insects and the kinds of crustaceans we mostly eat like shrimps and lobsters have been on different branches of the evolutionary tree for most of the history of animals.

Of course we (humans) do eat many land insects too, like crickets and so on.

Here's a fun zoomable graphic I found while looking up the dates: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Pancrustacea=985906?otthome=%40%3D770311#x-28,y311,w0.8390

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