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I love shrimp and lobster, man.
If you fry them with enough butter and garlic, even bugs taste like food.
^ If the price of lobster espically got cheaper , I’d be a happy camper.
The only reason it’s expensive now is because the rich people of long ago thought it was rather trendy to eat the bugs that the poor people of New England were forced to eat.
I’ve known this for a long time and it still pisses me off. Rich people ruin everything!
Damn, I didn’t even consider that these might be considered ‘bugs’! I’m on board now.
They’re not “considered” bugs. The are bugs. They’re just aquatic bugs.
They are crustaceans I think. They form the anthropod group with insects but aren’t insects themselves. Doesn’t count.
Well the problem is that “bug” is not a scientific term right? Or even if it is, colloquially I think it could easily refer to either insects specifically or arthropods more generally.
Certainly a lot of people refer to spiders as bugs despite them not being insects.
“Bug” is a scientific word that refers to members of the sub-order Heteroptera. See assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, etc.
But yeah language is fluid and most people call any old arthropod a bug.
I would side with you if it wasn’t for the parent thread using the word “insect”. It is definitely some form of nit picking though on my part.
*arthropod
‘anthropod’ sounds like a furry’s mp3-player.
I thought that was VLC
Our bodies may think they’re similar enough. People with a seafood allergy are likely to have a reaction to bugs as well.
And I live by the sea, they are free if I catch them myself
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bug aquatic crustaceans are only bugs if you use a very broad and uncommon definition of ‘bug’.
shrimps is bugs
Good argument.
Depends on price, taste and environmental impact compared to plant-based protein. I probably wouldn’t eat large bugs grilled hole, but I’d probably be fine with bug powder.
I would eat well cooked insects even if mammal meat is not banned. Even more so if the environmental benefit is demonstrated.
Bro, I had BBQ flavored cricket snacks one time just for the novelty. They were actually really good, of not loaded up on salt. But it was this random candy store in a dying mall and haven’t found them since. Also got a scorpion lollipop one time, also really good, but was more sugar than scorpion.
I would absolutely eat the fuck out some cricket balls with parsley, onion, and garlic!
Hell friggen no. I’m also not going to let a government dictate what I eat. Screw the law
More shrimp and lobster for me.
Shrimp and lobsters are crustaceans, not insects. It’s like saying a whale is a fish
Shrimp and lobsters are decapods which belong in the arthropod group right alongside all of our insects. They are water insects by definition.
It’s not at all like saying a whale is a fish because while they are both vertebrates, they split much sooner than arthropods do, and they do not share as many similar characteristics.
It would be like saying a shark is a fish (which it is).
That’s like saying whales are giraffes because they’re in the order artiodactyla
Well whales and giraffes are both mammals, and since they’re classed together due to a common ancestor it’s fair to say they’re related and you could group them together.
Just like how decapods and insects are classed with hexapods under crustacea, effectively making them related due to a common ancestor.
So you could say giraffes (or artiodactylans) are proto whales (or cetaceans) much like you could say crustaceans are proto insects. Or insects of the sea.
Also insects are hexapods which belong to the class insecta and appeared roughly 411 million years ago. Shrimp and lobsters are decapods which predate insects. I don’t know who started this meme about shrimp and lobsters being insects but it is factually incorrect. They’re not the same thing just because they belong in the same massive phylum
They’re all crustaceans.
Does that include food safety regulations?
That’s not dictating what he chooses to eat you nimrod, that’s dictating what the manufacturers are allowed to put into food
If you can’t see the difference in that you have no business trying these infantile zingers in a public forum
Regulations that ensure my food is safe to eat and a government preventing me from eating a type of food even if it is safe to eat are two entirely different things and I’m pretty sure you knew that before trying to make a witty false equivalence
Would you eat endangered species if available?
That’s a government regulation that controls what you can consume that has nothing to do with food safety.
Person 1: “Honey, we can’t eat chicken, beef or pork, we’ve only got crickets since the government banned all meat except for crickets”
Person 2: “Damnit, I wish the government stopped dictating what we eat even if the food we want to eat is safe for us to eat”
Person 3: “SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU’D EAT AN ENDANGERED SPECIES?”
OK now you’re just arguing in bad faith. You said the other guys example wasn’t equitable because it’s conflating banning a material with controlling quality. So I asked you the same concept but with a proper example and instead of responding with a coherent argument, you went with ridicule. Go play in traffic.
You were deliberately missing the point.
Go play in traffic.
Reported. Have a nice day
The point being? That it’s fine to set government regulation to protect species from being wiped out and that somehow doesn’t transfer to it being fine to regulate beef or other meats as we see them negatively affecting a vast swath of ecosystems including many of those endangered species? The harm has to be to the species being regulated and not from the species?
Are endangered species not also safe to eat generally?
Happily
I’ve eaten insects plenty of times
No. Plenty of delicious plants to eat. There is no need to eat disgusting goo in shells.
such hateful slander about okra ಠ_ಠ
Fuck I need to start growing and picking my own okra! Shit is like $5 for a tiny ass jar.
Okra comes in jars? I can’t even imagine what texture that must be!
Probably pickled okra. It’s actually crunchy if done correctly.
Fried okra good. Okra in soup makes everything snotty and gross and then my mom made me eat it anyway and I just can’t. /childhood texture trauma
All life forms are just goo in shells.
Maybe insects, but donuts is a better description for most mammals.
More like kababs.
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I ate crickets a few times in traditional Mexican restaurants. They were great dry roasted like seasoned peanuts, but I liked them less braised or streamed. I really needed them to have the crunch to be palatable. I’d try other bugs, for sure.
Chapulines! They take chili lime seasoning very well. There’s this lemon tea thing to them that makes them fun in salads, it’s like a little lemon Snapple flavored protein puff. Had a tomato, feta, olive, and cucumber salad with ‘em that was the most ingredient-elevated unexpectedly-gourmet thing I’ve ever put in my mouth.
Reminded me of Doritos sweet that chili crumbs at the bottom of the bag.
I’ve been a vegetarian for the past 24 years, but if I ate meat, and it was banned, I’d defo try insects. I’m actually curious about how they taste. Like friend ants, crickets, and so on.
If you’ve had shrimp and lobster or crab you’ve eaten a bug.
I haven’t.
Crickets taste like cornnuts to me.
Stir fried meal worms have the consistency of chips, so it’s really down the what seasoning you use. Pretty tasty ngl.
What made you choose and stay vegetarian for so many years?
Fish and seafood always disgusted me and killing animals for food just felt morally and ethically wrong to me. Thus I became a vegetarian at the age of 13. I’ve never missed eating meat so far. I went vegan for 2 years, but bounced back because I couldn’t live without cheese and eggs.
I’ve nibbled on my dog’s cricket flour treats. Tasted like any other dog treat. She adored them, though.
If it could be prepared in a way that didn’t directly remind me of the animal they came from, definitely. There’s a reason they make chicken nuggets look like anything but a chicken.
Let’s be honest, if they made alligator nuggets or dinosaur nuggets from the correct meats and in the right shape you would still eat them and it would be delicious.
Alligator nuggets already exist, had some in Georgia a while back. Tasted like the 90s Burger King chicken nuggets.
Of course. I’ve been meaning to try them, and I have friends who eat earthworms and more
I hate to tell you this, but your friends are birds.
Eh, I ate beef fed leeches before and they are just another annelid so I can’t imagine it being much different other than what they were fed before preparation.
I would burn the fucking world down
I would eat insects right now if they were cooked by a chef who knew what they were doing.
I once went to a museum and they had a chef preparing some insects. I asked him for how long he’d been cooking insects, and he kind of glanced sideways and said he had no fucking clue of what he was doing. He just got the gig to cook the insects for museum visitors and just rolled with it. They were good though, there were crickets, ants and mealworms.
Protein is protein right? I’m sure any half decent chef could figure out how to make insects tasty with a little trial and error.
Probably, but the funny thing was that this was presented as something established when in reality he was just winging it.
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I would eat insects right now if they were cooked by an amateur. But that’s just me personally and I’m built different.
Depends on if it came with a side of meats?
What makes you think we don’t? Many of us already do without realizing it.
Fun fact about most grain FDA regulations: it’s not if there’s bugs in the grains, just that it doesn’t exceed a certain amount.
