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
i think it’s like “tree” and “fish”, which is not a phylogenetic group but a certain shape/form/expression.
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.
Idk. There are some big fucking snails out there
Snails are used in some cuisines (France). I’ve had them. They’re not bad.
Yeah, I’ve tried escargot and can definitely recommend.
Had it at a fancy French restaurant. I was interested in the fact that they’re essentially boiled in butter and herbs(?) but my brain 100% did not connect the dots as I forked one and bit in. Burned my mouth so fuckin bad I went through 2 glasses of ice water just so I could taste the halibut special I accidentally spent $70 on.
Yeah but they’re molluscs.
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.
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
You’re a fish
Oh fuck
Ichthyophobia isn’t cool. Take your hateful beliefs elsewhere.
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
Oh, I know exactly where my food lives on the tree of life
Oh I thought you were doing a Matrix reference
Damn I can’t believe I missed that. Sorry lol
I can see that, I made it more obvious
Somewhere in your lower bowel after a good dinner
They are more similar that at least I used to think.
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.
I don’t eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.
You should try it, I like the crunch
Fixing the bugs
one side takes regular baths.
i Don’t eat cereal without bugs, why would i eat my Water without Them?
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.)
I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I’ve started going off it, not sure why.
Maybe it’s because you now know they are bugs
Lack of deveining?
Shrimps are fuckin pointy
Shrimps are pretty rich
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
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
Crocos are still here. And sharks.
Sea bugs come pre-seasoned
Counterpoint: lobster is delicious
Why are you okay eating cow meat and not house cat meat?
I don’t eat either of them
Why are you making assumptions about what I’m ok with?
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.
Fiiiiine, they are cute. And maaaaaybe cuddly, even though they tend to smell if they’ve been outside all day. And they are delicious.
even though they tend to smell if they’ve been outside all day.
So do cats and dogs.
Yes, but I keep my cats inside, so they smell really nice. Too nice… maybe I do want to eat them after all.
how tf can you call seafood wet bugs???
