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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Crow@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] vsis@feddit.cl 63 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

You weren't supposed to use motor oil

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[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Interesting. So, what bugs have you eaten?

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

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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[-] zuu@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 71 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

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

We knew what you meant, mind.

[-] ngdev@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

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

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

The meat is that good.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

So fucking gross, I'll literally never be able to wrap my head around it. Also what's worh seafood lover's obsessions with eating things alive yo that's psychopath shit

[-] pyromaster55@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I love seafood, and eat all manner of seafood, and have not once, in my entire life, seen anyone eat LIVE seafood.

Who the fuck are you hanging out with?

[-] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Oysters on the half shell, raw, are alive not dead. I love seafood too, and eat raw sashimi grade fish all the time but yeah I've never eaten a raw alibe oyster either.

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[-] Shad0w@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago
[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kofe@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ox0r@jlai.lu 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Dr_pepper_spray@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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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[-] partizan@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

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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[-] teft@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago
[-] poudlardo@jlai.lu 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Rachelhazideas@lemm.ee 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.

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] ssebastianoo@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago
[-] eZen52@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Lockely@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Top right image just needs more Old Bay

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