If you've got cleaned, cooked seafood that smells like fish shit, you're at a shitty restaurant. My only takeaway from this is that we should really see if we can make terrestrial insects taste as delicious as we make aquatic insects taste.
oh there's some tasty bugs out there already. people are just too squeamish about it.
For me its mostly the legs/heads. I dont fuck with heads on anything and legs need to be way bigger for me to be interested. I'd try one of those fly/mosquito burgers tho.
crustaceans and insects are two different things, not real complicated. The crustaceans have actual meat, not a fluid filled exoskeleton.
I dunno... Have you ever opened a crab up before cooking it? It's pretty much all goo inside an exoskeleton.
While it is inaccurate to characterize crustaceans as bugs, they are arthropods and share an enormous amount of anatomical and psychological features with insects. Both have open circulatory systems and use hemolymph to hydraulically operate their limbs. That "meat" that you're talking about is only really visible after cooking, and consists mostly of denatured and congealed hemolymph.
Large bugs definitely have some meat on them. Chomp on a large beetle and you will see
Well the latter have more "meat" on them, whereas bugs are mostly just "shells" once they die. You aren't eating the shells of crustaceans, you're eating the innards
You got a point, but the kind of bugs eaten in some parts of the world are usually the fatty kind .
See, at a glance, that thing looks disgusting. I have an instinctive revulsion to the thought of eating it.
I guess some people would say the same for whole live shrimp though, and I grew up fishing them out of the sea and boiling them up in a pot.
The bottom ones have delectable white meat inside. The top ones are all brown guts and crispy, musty shell. Nobody is shelling crickets for a worthwhile piece of meat inside like you do a shrimp or a lobster.
They look similar to bugs, sure. But let's not pretend it's the same thing.
Sounds to me that the common preparation is to just blend them into a powder at which point they're just a non descript protein rich powder
TL;DR: disgust is learned.
Bottom line is that while there are things that we're hard-wired to reject, the rest is more about what social groups teach us at a young age. Also, we can overcome the hard-wired aspects to an extent, again through social reinforcement.
Oh I can explain it easily! One of them tastes good and the other one tastes bad. That's pretty much it... Not sure how it's so confusing though
Have you ever tried insects? Those who have have said that they taste good. They said it tastes like shrimp.
I dunno I feel like most bugs would be pretty decent fried in Gaelic butter with salt.
I live in a fishing town, and I used to love crab, until I was adult and it was my turn to prep them. The first time I turned a crab over and saw the bottom, where all its freaky little legs connect, I had a real "oh god this is either a bug or a space alien" moment. I can't stand crab anymore, just the thought of it makes me feel nauseated. Lobster too. Somehow shrimps are okay, though.
Bro... Shrimp are bait. How can you be grossed out by crab and then pinch a shrimp in half XD? I myself like all the water bugs... But land bugs are still gross.
Land bugs mostly have pretty blend or bad taste, regardless of their looks anyway. In Asia they often add spices to make them taste something.
It's a bit like snails too, it's not that tasty itself, the only reason it's good is because it tastes like the butter and garlic we put in.
And for both it's mostly the texture that's off putting. Some people can grow used to the texture though.
It's gross sure but i never understood how that would make someone stop eating it. For me no matter how gross something is the taste is the only thing that matters.
Other examples, rabbit's brain, black pudding, or in general how we kill most animals to make steak... It's always creepy, gross or a bit disturbing, but it never changed my taste for it.
If all the meat on earth disappeared tomorrow, I would become a vegetarian before ever knowingly consuming a bug.
What if they were raised in a hermetically sealed environment, dried out, ground into a fine powder, then added to batter to make pancakes?
I don't think I could eat whole bugs, but bug flour? Easy.
I've had crispy dried grasshoppers that were chill once, and some BANGIN cricket tacos in NYC.
They're actually pretty great for protein.
I'll eat as many bugs as a billionare eats.
But aren't billionaires completely sick in the head? I'd be careful with a claim like that
I don't have to eat the shells, offal, or shit of I eat the big sea ones though.
In case your serious that you don’t get it. The bottom pic is all crustaceans that are more closely related to insects than fish.
Op is saying they don't get why many ppl frown upon eating terrestrial insects but do eat aquatic ones.
Of note, insects diverged from the arthropod line that would become crabs, lobsters, etc in the beginning of the Carboniferous or late Devonian, a solid 350-400 million years ago. This means crabs and grasshoppers are more distantly related to each other than humans and frogs.
Stamets, do you want me to catch the 4 inch cockroach that I've been raising free-range in my apartment and send it to you to find out? It's on a non-GMO diet.
Most people are definitely quite squeamish about eating unshelled shrimp. This feels like a strawman.
Sea roaches
I don't eat water bugs either. They're also gross.
they’re in the water so they’re clean obvs
I'd rather eat bugs than shellfish. Never had bugs but I know I don't like seafood so at least there's a chance the insects won't be bad.
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