Idk where this myth started from but shrimp and lobsters are crustaceans, a separate class of arthropods within the phylum arthropoda. arthropoda is a massive phylum and bugs belong to the class insecta. lobsters and shrimp belong to crustacea so calling shrimp bugs is like calling whales hippos because they’re both from the clade artiodactyla /nerdmode off
One of the definitions of bug is “small arthropod with many legs”
Take your nerdmode into the shop, its database is defective.
i think it’s like “tree” and “fish”, which is not a phylogenetic group but a certain shape/form/expression.
lukewarm coffee: gross
hot coffee: great
it’s almost as if different things are different
You mentioned the same thing, at different temperatures. It’s literally the same THING.
A shrimp is not the same thing as a Megaloblatta Longipennis.
Thought you were just shitposting with that name…
Now I just wish you were.
Ice is just water at a different temperature.
The difference being even bigger between crustaceans and bugs just makes my point stronger.
Im only down with eating clean bugs that are large enough to have enough substance to be worthwhile or whatever makes it into processed foods and “foods” that I eat (jelly beans arent really food and frequently have shellac and that comes from a specific beetle.)
Fixing the bugs
Shrimps are fuckin pointy
Counterpoint: lobster is delicious
Why are you okay eating cow meat and not house cat meat?
Availability is likely a factor here. House cats are everywhere, but professionally prepared cat meat is not. If it was in the cooler at your local walmart and priced comparably to beef, we’d see a lot more people eating cat. If the taste and texture are better than beef, we’d probably even start to see a market shift as more and more people start thinking of them as food instead of pets.
You can’t discount the role that tradition plays in that. Because mutton and goat would have replaced beef decades ago.
I wish mutton and goat were more available near me. Lamb can be had but I want bigger cuts for stew or curry.
House cats: overwhelming over weight so mostly fat. And not the type that pigs and cows are. Feral cats: riddled with diseases and malnourished.
Cows: mostly muscle and with a marbling of fat.
Wow so what youre saying is that youre okay eating one but not the other because one tastes better?
Motherfucker, im not gonna eat gruel everyday, I’d rather eat a hamburger or a salad. Yeah, we choose what we eat for three reason. How safe it is to consume, how nutritional it is, and most importantly, how fucking tasty it is.
Beef is fucking tasty. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t eat it.
Buddy that’s the first step in eating literally anything.
And that’s supposed to be your counterargument to my original comment?
Are you having a stroke?
how tf can you call seafood wet bugs???
Because shrimp is bugs that is wet
NO. SHRIMP IS SHRIMP 😤😤 have some respect
Shrimp is shrimp and shrimp is bugs.
The question should not be whether that is a problem, the question is what other tasty bugs are you missing out on due to cultural programming?
Having tried chocolate locusts and spicy scorpions, I personally can say: not a lot, actually, I don’t like any of them.
I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized. Otherwise you’d have Red Locust and all you can eat grasshopper legs.
I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized.
take it back
Idk. There are some big fucking snails out there
Yeah but they’re molluscs.
I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I’ve started going off it, not sure why.
Non-alarmist answer: tastes can change over time for no real reason. Some mild reasons it could change is pallet fatigue, prep and cook time seeming not worth it and so you crave it less, and changes in overall perception. A person who is slowly becoming vegan for moral or health reasons will naturally stop wanting certain meat products.
Alarmist answer: I don’t know man. You’ve probably got some weird cancer or something.
*palate fatigue
I work in wine importing so this is a mistake I make all the damn time.
pallet- thing used to strap stuff to so they can be put on containers (for container trucks and ships).
palate - roof of your mouth or an alternate word for your taste
Palette- painter’s thing for holding paint.
Speech to text strikes again.
Increasingly alarmist answer: you’ve heard about eyestalk ablation and it’s subconsciously ruining your enjoyment of farmed shrimp
The fucking horrors we do. Hey if we give them anaesthetic before we burn out their eyes they seem less distressed. Fucking gross.
The line of arthropods that broke off to become Insecta did so in the Devonian Period, roughly 400 million years ago. Centipedes evolved in the fucking Silurian. Comparing these two groups is kinda like comparing raccoons, possums, and platypuses to fish.
Tell yourself what er you need to in order to enjoy that crawfish.
I’ll tell myself it’s juicy and delicious
Oh, I know exactly where my food lives on the tree of life
Somewhere in your lower bowel after a good dinner
dont need to tell anything just need to eat it
It’s almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish
fish aren’t even real
You’re a fish
Oh fuck
