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[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 122 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

oh there's some tasty bugs out there already. people are just too squeamish about it.

[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

Or you could, y'know, just eat beans instead.

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[-] Shenanigore@lemm.ee 92 points 6 months ago

crustaceans and insects are two different things, not real complicated. The crustaceans have actual meat, not a fluid filled exoskeleton.

[-] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago

I dunno... Have you ever opened a crab up before cooking it? It's pretty much all goo inside an exoskeleton.

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[-] BRBWaffles@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] owen@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

Large bugs definitely have some meat on them. Chomp on a large beetle and you will see

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 74 points 7 months ago

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

[-] redcalcium 40 points 7 months ago

You got a point, but the kind of bugs eaten in some parts of the world are usually the fatty kind .

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 69 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago
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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago

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

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Have you ever tried insects? Those who have have said that they taste good. They said it tastes like shrimp.

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[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I dunno I feel like most bugs would be pretty decent fried in Gaelic butter with salt.

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago
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[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

If all the meat on earth disappeared tomorrow, I would become a vegetarian before ever knowingly consuming a bug.

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

What if they were raised in a hermetically sealed environment, dried out, ground into a fine powder, then added to batter to make pancakes?

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I don't think I could eat whole bugs, but bug flour? Easy.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago
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[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 17 points 6 months ago

I've had crispy dried grasshoppers that were chill once, and some BANGIN cricket tacos in NYC.

They're actually pretty great for protein.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

I don't have to eat the shells, offal, or shit of I eat the big sea ones though.

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

I'll eat as many bugs as a billionare eats.

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

But aren't billionaires completely sick in the head? I'd be careful with a claim like that

[-] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] odium@programming.dev 23 points 7 months ago

Op is saying they don't get why many ppl frown upon eating terrestrial insects but do eat aquatic ones.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 21 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

But you can eat a crustacean in a satisfying way without eating it's head, offal, or poop.

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[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah fam you can keep the sea bugs, too.

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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.

[-] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 10 points 6 months ago

Most people are definitely quite squeamish about eating unshelled shrimp. This feels like a strawman.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago
[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I don't eat water bugs either. They're also gross.

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All you need is salt to make them taste like sea bugs.

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 months ago

Sea roaches

[-] jtom@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

they’re in the water so they’re clean obvs

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago

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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