I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I've started going off it, not sure why.
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I don't eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.
You should try it, I like the crunch
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.
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.
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
Yeah but they're molluscs.
Snails are used in some cuisines (France). I've had them. They're not bad.
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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
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i Don't eat cereal without bugs, why would i eat my Water without Them?
one side takes regular baths.
Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?
You'll have to ask Reptile.
They’re different, scorpion isn’t as sweet as lobster meat.
I think I read somewhere that tarantulas taste like shrimp
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Shrimps are fuckin pointy
Shrimps are pretty rich
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?
Frankly, if you're looking at the morality of eating meat, this is as good a stance as any.
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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.
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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.
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