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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 70 points 4 days ago

Maggot muncher is definitely a slur early sapians used against neanderthals

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 25 points 4 days ago

They were probably sharing grub recipes fam

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

maggot muncher (complimentary)

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago
[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago

Probably both lol

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

God I hate maggot munchers.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 days ago

Today we eat shrimps, oysters, snails, not so different and a first class protein source.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah i don't eat those slimy things. Ew.

My food needs a face and emotions.

[-] radix@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

What do you mean, RFK just ordered them for every school in the country, the worm in his head told him to do so

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Ever ate pecans? You may well have chowed a few grubs.

Guy came in our forestry class to lecture on pecan orchards, big business in OK. He handed a bag of shelled nuts for us to inspect. It had a couple of grubs in there and you could barely pick them out from the nuts. Also, they eat pecans, they taste like pecans.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 27 points 4 days ago

Hakuna Matata

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

Anyone who eats guava straight from the tree probably ate far more maggots through their life than any H. neanderthalensis did. Including myself.

...damn, I miss that guava tree.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Aren't there like little harmless worms in strawberries? I definitely have eaten like thousands of those worms.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

Yup! The ones in guava are bigger though, far more visible, and people always joke the worst part isn't finding a worm there, but half a worm. (Just a wee bit of protein~)

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

If you find half a worm, you just spit it out, cut/bite out the wormy part and continue. Can't throw the whole fruit. Although the worms I remember in guava make hard shells around them as they eat, so most times you bite into it, know immediately, and throw that part.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

You can't spit it out after you already swallowed it! And the ones I'm used to don't make any sort of hard shell, they simply wiggle their way into the fruit.

Not that it's a big deal - if they caused any harm, I'd be dead already.

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

If you swallowed then yeah, extra protein.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, there's a reason why we like pasta. The protein, the looks, the taste... It's basically fake maggots

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

It's called vermicelli for a reason

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Sure, all that protein and maggot taste in pasta.

Btw I'm sorry about... Whatever the fuck kind of childhood abuse that lead to that sentence.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago
[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

I thought it was pasta and marinara. Now I see I'm evolutionary wired for pasta and marinara.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 days ago

They are delicious fried or sauteed.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Kinda hard to do either in the stone age though.

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago

Barbecued then.

[-] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

That's why they look so yummy ๐Ÿ˜‹

[-] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

How do we know they weren't just eating rancid meat rather than directly eating maggots?

this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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