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.
shrimp is bugs
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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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…
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Listen, he should’ve at least offered to kill you first. That’s the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Crustaceans aren’t insects, for starters
evranch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The difference is that shrimp are delicious? Last time you got a bug in your mouth what was your instinctive response?
The great reset is bogus but there’s definitely a “conspiracy” to get us to eat bugs… A boring, capitalist conspiracy. Just the next step in the race to the bottom, another cheap and low quality food that the unwashed masses can afford to keep them alive and trudging off to work.
I will eat bugs when I see the billionaires have them on their plates.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck billionaires, if eating bugs is delicious and cuts emissions from factory farming, I’m in. The environment doesn’t fit into some dick measuring contest with the rich and they don’t decide my moral position.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’ve never had a raw shrimp randomly fly into my mouth out of nowhere. I don’t like it when bugs do that, but I can’t say it’s ever been an issue because of the flavor. I can’t say what the flavor even is.
There’s no “conspiracy” to eat bugs, but there is a movement, which I agree with, promoting insects as a low resource cost protein alternative to meat. If you are flour made from grasshoppers you likely wouldn’t even know unless told. I’m certain you don’t actually know what they taste like, so how can you say they taste bad?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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:
ImageCould 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.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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
fruitsinclude cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins. Luckily, all three of these are alsoberries.I say we ignore them, and use words to mean sensible things.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 7 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.
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply “food”
simple yet accurate. I’m a scientist now.
TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Rhubarb is pretty weird, especially for people who grew up where it’s not a thing.
aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve never had rhubarb. I’ve heard it’s sweet (people make pies out of it), but it looks like celery, which is one of my most hated foods. What does it actually taste like? Is it palatable raw?
0ops@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The best jam I ever had was raspberry rhubarb
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Rhubarb is actually really sour. As in, if you eat too much of it, your teeth will start feeling as if they’re covered in fur, because it genuinely fucks with your enamel. (Rhubarb contains oxalic acid, which is also used in some tooth whitening products).
But it’s basically never eaten without adding a boatload of sugar to it. So, you can kind of imagine it like those sour sweets, but stronger, and of course, it’s a plant, so the taste is somewhat richer (although still not very rich for a plant).
As for eating it raw, well, then you can’t really add sugar to it, so basically not palatable. I mean, you can do it, but unless you really like sour, it’s just not good.
And it’s only really similar to celery in terms of its texture and crunch. The taste is completely different.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bugs is good
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Not all, shrimp is kinda gross TBH. But I’m excited to try new cicada recipes this summer.
TheDeepState@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m allergic. No bugs for me!
pyrflie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
[deleted]ThoGot@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If you’re allergic to shellfish, there’s a high chance that you’re also allergic to insects
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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.
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Crawfish are literally called mud bugs in a lot of places. I think lobsters and langoustines should also be under the bug umbrella.
notthebees@reddthat.com 7 months ago
In Arabic, shrimp are called sea locusts and are technically halal. (Depends on what school you follow)
mr_satan@monyet.cc 7 months ago
Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad
lseif@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
guy on the right knows shellfish and bugs are equally gross
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And will still eat both.
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
just to spite the middle people and see their reactions while chewing ocean bugs
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And I eat snails, so what?
MamboGator@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hot take: Bugs is shrimp?
Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Rollie pollies is shellfish
Mikufan@ani.social 7 months ago
*wet bug
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 7 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.
maculata@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’m allergic so: Insects or Crustacea = disgusting. Cockroaches of the sea.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.
ramble81@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.
sndrtj@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Well… They are
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
No.
AmerikaLosesWW3@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
Nah, they have parasites
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Perhaps, but you are aware that shrimp, lobster, crab and fish in general all have parasites too right? People get sick from seafood pretty often
Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I assume you mean they can have parasites, not they do. In which case, so can most things. People are fine with eating cows even though they can have parasites. I have never actually heard of any significant issue with eating insects. I’ve only heard of them being great protein options that require much fewer resources to produce.