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shrimp is bugs (mander.xyz)

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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago

If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

Some are and I do.

Hoppers roasted, grilled, and fried are pretty damn good.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 15 points 4 months ago

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.

[-] And009@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 months ago

Well.. They are

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!

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[-] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 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 21 points 4 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 points 4 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 4 points 4 months ago

Crustaceans aren't insects, for starters

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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 63 points 4 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.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago

crunch

Mmmm, gourmet

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 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:

Could 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 30 points 4 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 fruits include cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins. Luckily, all three of these are also berries.

I say we ignore them, and use words to mean sensible things.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 19 points 4 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.

[-] gmanlikescheese@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

🅱️erries

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them "βerries", next one "ϐerries" (cursive beta)

[-] Coconut1233@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Γerries

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Pronounced "cherries"

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply "food"

simple yet accurate. I'm a scientist now.

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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Rhubarb is pretty weird, especially for people who grew up where it's not a thing.

[-] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 2 points 4 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 3 points 4 months ago

The best jam I ever had was raspberry rhubarb

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Bugs is good

[-] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

Not all, shrimp is kinda gross TBH. But I'm excited to try new cicada recipes this summer.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 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.

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[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I’m allergic. No bugs for me!

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

If true I can respect it. Shellfish is a common allergy and I can imagine the same for arthropods.

[-] ThoGot@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

If you're allergic to shellfish, there's a high chance that you're also allergic to insects

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[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 9 points 4 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.

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

guy on the right knows shellfish and bugs are equally gross

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[-] mr_satan 7 points 4 months ago

Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad

[-] MamboGator@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Hot take: Bugs is shrimp?

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

And I eat snails, so what?

[-] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Rollie pollies is shellfish

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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.