bugs

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.

Unlimited soup, salad, and stickbugs.
I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized.
take it back
Yeah it’s this. We don’t eat the shells/outsides of lobster (at least most probably don’t). I don’t want to eat exoskeleton.
- Yeah, chitin is really hard to digest and sensitive stomachs will have issues.
Idk. There are some big fucking snails out there
- Snails are good, too. Creamy and tender, reminded me of scallops.
  They were doused in butter/garlic, so that may have been part of the reason, but still
- Yeah but they're molluscs.
- Snails are used in some cuisines (France). I've had them. They're not bad.
They're different enough by size and their habitat that we don't encounter them as primates so logically we don't have any reason to have an aversion instinct. Regular insects can be poisonous or parasites but these don't really look like insects.

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.
Shrimps is bugs!
Insects are crustaceans. As are isopods. Interestingly, spiders are not
Actually, hexapoda was moved taxonomically to be classed as Crustaceans due to new research. The new clade is called Pancrustacea. Insects can now properly be called "terrestrial crustaceans"
I would however like to point out that literally none of the pictured animals are bugs.

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.

It's almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish
- fish aren’t even real
Tell yourself what er you need to in order to enjoy that crawfish.
- dont need to tell anything just need to eat it
- I'll tell myself it's juicy and delicious
They are more similar that at least I used to think.
https://youtu.be/bt7nC52GrmM
Shrimps is bugs!

I don't eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.

You should try it, I like the crunch

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.

Fixing the bugs

one side takes regular baths.

i Don't eat cereal without bugs, why would i eat my Water without Them?

Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?

They’re different, scorpion isn’t as sweet as lobster meat.
- I think I read somewhere that tarantulas taste like shrimp
You'll have to ask Reptile.
Supposedly cincadas and pill bugs taste just like shrimp.

Shrimps are fuckin pointy

Shrimps are pretty rich

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.
- Increasingly alarmist answer: you’ve heard about eyestalk ablation and it’s subconsciously ruining your enjoyment of farmed shrimp
Maybe it's because you now know they are bugs
Lack of deveining?

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.)

Counterpoint: lobster is delicious

Why are you okay eating cow meat and not house cat meat?

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?
Why are you making assumptions about what I'm ok with?
I don't eat either of them
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.
Well, I can't fit a cow in my house, and it's not generally cute and cuddly, so it must die instead. But seriously though, are cats even delicious?
- cow [... i]s not generally cute and cuddly
  You couldn't be further from the truth.

Sea bugs come pre-seasoned

Technically modern insects are descended from shrimp and lobster, so this is bugs good vs dry bugs bad

No they aren't lol, nothing alive now is descended from anything else alive now.
They are somewhat related in the broad scheme of things, but not that close when you dig a bit deeper. They share a common ancestor about 400 million years ago (1, 2), whereas we share a common ancestor with them about 530 million years ago. Considering the more than 2 billion year history of life, you could say we are almost as related to them as they are to each other. It's true that this was during the Cambrian explosion (3) so we are about as distantly removed from them as animals can be, and differentiation of biological features slowed down a bit after that, but still, true insects and the kinds of crustaceans we mostly eat like shrimps and lobsters have been on different branches of the evolutionary tree for most of the history of animals.
Of course we (humans) do eat many land insects too, like crickets and so on.
Here's a fun zoomable graphic I found while looking up the dates: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Pancrustacea=985906?otthome=%40%3D770311#x-28,y311,w0.8390
- Crocos are still here. And sharks.
- The pic of the "Norway lobster" is of it cooked on a plate with bread XD
  https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Nephrops_norvegicus=737047?otthome=%40%3D770311#x344,y480,w1.0327

how tf can you call seafood wet bugs????

Because shrimp is bugs that is wet
- NO. SHRIMP IS SHRIMP 😤😤 have some respect