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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact I like to share with everyone who enjoys shrimp. Up until the ~~90s~~ 80s they were very difficult to breed in captivity. They just wouldn’t reproduce.

Until someone figured out that it you cut out one of their eyes, they will readily breed. Nobody really knows why, but they snip off one of the eye stalks on the females to get them to breed.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago
[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

Oh...geeze. This read like a note found in a Resident Evil game...

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Fucked up man. Glad I became vegan

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

The fear of death does tend to make creatures want to reproduce.

It is fucked though.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s not it actually. Current theory is it has something to do with the overall decreased sensation of sunlight indicating it’s mating season or something. They won’t develop mature ovaries with both eyes.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's also hormones they think are removed when the stalk is removed.

But really, no animal likes being injured. And they have no idea what else is going to get cut off.

If some other thing that's observing humans cuts the dominant arm off a man without any access to females, they're going to suggest doing that limits how much they want to masturbate.

When in reality they just can't masturbate anymore.

Clearly the subject of the study is unfamiliar with “the stranger”

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wait until you hear what they do to pigs

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

how did they discover that? who's just going around cutting random parts of swimmy guys??

[-] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Maybe some bad bitch shrimp got in a knife fight with a lobster, lost her eye and just went ham

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

According to where I learned it, in high enough densities in concrete tanks, some shrimp would grind their own eyestalks off on the side of the tank. Some farmer put two and two together.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Jeebus christ. That’s… horrible

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

SLPT: Poke out your girl's eyeball to get some guaranteed hard lovin.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There is an indoor shrimp farm in Indiana. Really. They also claim they farm sustainably.

https://www.rdmshrimp.com/

Downside: they don't shell them or cut any bits off or anything. That's your job.

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[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Then why don’t they call it bug fried rice? Checkmate Atheists

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 1 month ago

Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.

There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.

[-] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The order Hemiptera would like a word with you.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

It's an ugly planet. A bug planet.

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[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've been saying that for years and I call them water bugs

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

So is crab and molluscs

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I've eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it's pretty good

Can't remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've eaten multiple types of insects. All but one (giant water bug, tasted way too much like juniper, which I hate) have been decent. Ants are kind of citrusy because of the formic acid. Meal worms and the beetle larvae I had were kind of nutty. The crickets I had were the style they do in Oaxaca, Mexico, which is fried with chile and lime, so it's basically just crunchy chili lime flavor.

Incidentally, you can get cricket flour, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can either use it as a flour substitute (it also has a nutty flavor) or blend it with plant-based flours and use it in a standard baking recipe either way. And you won't get little legs stuck in your teeth or anything.

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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

And they're fucking delicious.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago
[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Delicious bugs.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Shrimps be bugs

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