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jellyfish go to hell (discuss.tchncs.de)

relatable btw, shrimp is delicious

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[-] Gust@piefed.social 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

BORN TO SWIM

OCEAN IS A FUCK

鬼神 Drown Em All 1989

I am trash-island man

410,757,864,530 UNDISCOVERED JELLYFISH

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Lobsters and shrimps have feelings too 😟

Check this out: https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/

€10 donated to Shrimp Welfare Project likely does more to reduce animal suffering than going completely vegan for a year.

[-] halfapage@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

b-but muh minerals

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 26 points 15 hours ago

Jellyfish tastes OK. It's more a texture than a flavor. I have no idea which species I've been served. Why, yes, I do live in eastern Asia where something trying to be inedible to humans is taken as a personal affront.

[-] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Cannonball jellyfish is the most likely culprit for edible jellyfish.

In case anyone is curious.

And it is damn good in a salad.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

something trying to be inedible to humans is taken as a personal affront

Sea cucumbers? Salted salmon eggs in ovaries? Fermented squid guts? Fish jizz? GET IN MY BELLY!

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

I had sea cucumber for the first time the other night (along with 鮟肝 (ankimo - monkfish liver). Sea cucumber flavor was fine but texture wasn't my favorite (I also don't like crunching on cartelige). Ankimo was smooth and delicious. Shiokara is also great. Shirako (your fish jizz) is great battered and fried, but I've never had the guts to try it raw.

[-] stephen01king@piefed.zip 7 points 14 hours ago

That's right, seasoned jellyfish tastes pretty nice.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Apparently the special red paint on the bottom of every single boat is toxic to the ocean. Also, lots of boats have their exhaust systems pumped directly into the ocean.

Also, I heard that if you dumped a lot of iron dust into the ocean it would create algae blooms and eventually help it take up more carbon. So whilst it would initially be destabilising it could do good in the long term.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

You're telling me a crab fried this shrimp?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

I agree, mostly because we know what happens after exploration.

(Exploitation)

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)
[-] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I guess regular bugs have way less need of muscle than swimming bugs. I have eaten crickets in a few different ways, and they never taste anything like shrimp. ALso, living in salt water pre-seasons the flesh maybe. That is my working theory. If we could figure out how to breed crickets that taste anything like shrimp, I would make them part of my diet and maybe even breed them.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago

Swimming bugs are much bigger and thus it's much easier to peel away their exoskeleton and intestines. Sea water definitely does have a seasoning effect, though, as seen with fresh water fish vs. ocean fish.

[-] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Your words are true. I grew up catching fresh freshwater fish, but I would rather eat saltwater fish fresh or no.

I think the reason why water bugs taste way better is because they have less exoskeleton. Which they don't need because they don't need to carry their own weight, since the water carries most of it.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 8 hours ago

Are you sure about that? Water also has a pressure that pushes against the animal.

Yes i am sure. If the pressure is equal on all sides (i.e. inside and out), you don't need a skeleton. Consider how a thin foil of plastics (or a jellyfish) in deep sea does not get ripped apart.

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

It sounds like you've already solved it, just force them to live in salt water and I feel like you might be halfway there.

[-] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I fed some crickets oranges before taking them to a demonstration speech I was giving for speech class. My demonstration was on making "crispy critters" which are rice crispy treats with dry roasted crickets. As an opener, I ate a live cricket (new personal fears of parasites would stop me from doing this now). The cricket tasted just like orange candy, because he had a belly full of oranges. It was better than my dry roasted crickets. I ate a cricket live out of the yard and it tasted like grass. They are what they eat. Even so, when you cook them, they dry up to the point that you are just eating their shells mostly.

So yes, you could make them salty if you drown them in salt water, but the muscle is the major part. We need to figure out how to make them get major gains. Little barbells maybe.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

There might be some complications in the living part

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Runescape Crab & Shrimp

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Shrimps is bugs?

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Leave the ocean alone

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 13 hours ago

I kinda wanna see R'lyeh. I bet it's kinda dope.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 14 hours ago

Joining the choir to say jellyfish and bugs are actually pretty darn good.

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