Scrimps?🍤

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FunnyUsername@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Show me a cockroach that tastes like crab legs with butter and I'm eating those, too

clearedtoland@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Don’t knock it until you’ve boiled a cockroach and put butter on it!

ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y

Yeah, but you usually peel a crab or shrimp before eating it. How do you peel the carapace of a cockroach?

ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I think it's a delicacy on certain train rides.

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y

You could try living under abject poverty and serfdom for generations. Or maybe lenghty castle siege.

ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml · 25 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Granted, water bugs have LEAGUES more meat on their exoskeletons then their land based counterparts.

Like that feels a bit weird to size comparison a centipede and a lobster, which is like 30 times it’s size.

Caradoc879@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Absolutely. We'd definitely have centipede cuisine if they were the size of a lobster. People will eat anything.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Except the rich, apparently.

Currens_felis@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y

I don’t eat either. I’m consistent.

kemsat@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The ocean flavor really elevates them beyond terrestrial bugs.

reverendsteveii@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y

Brining other meats makes them taste better, why wouldn't the briney deep make my bugs taste better?

Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Call it by its name. They are salty.

The ocean flavor can be achieved with dry algae put on water.

comradeRichard@lemmygrad.ml · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm squeamish about bugs or water bugs.

I also have a tough time eating animals after I see someone clean it.

Do I wish someone would make a grasshopper burger that wouldn't get chitin stuck between my teeth so I could eat more protein with a lot more of a clear conscious? Hell yeah.

Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y

Some people dry them and grind them into powder. Quite tasty actually.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

If a cockroach tasted as good as lobster with some garlic and butter, I'd be okay with land bugs, too.

Koppensneller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How do you know they don't?

Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y

I do.

rrrurboatlibad@lemdro.id · 4 pts · 2y

If you need to drown something in drawn butter to make it edible, I don't think it should be considered food. The butter is the food. 😂

XEAL@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y

Calling them the same doesn't make them the same.

davel@lemmygrad.ml · 9 pts · 2y

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Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y

Never had a problem with most insects. I can't say I have ever had anything along the lines of worms, but I wouldn't be opposed.

Grasshoppers and bee larvae are both normal foods in my country, the younger generation doesn't really eat them much but you can definitely find them around. Usually older-style drinking establishments. They're good.

Silkworm pupae are the absolute best drinking snack and I will die on this hill. Give me a cup of beondegi and beer and I am good for the night.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Nice try, CIA.

Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y

Who even has a problem with this?

Scorpions? Lobsters? Crabs? Whatever man just keep bringing me that!

odium@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y

I hate both

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y

I don't see a problem here, i hate both.

CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y

I've had scorpion before. I'd eat crickets if they were prepped right. Grasshoppers, too.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Scrimps is bugs

toilet_wolf@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

i know it's a meme but fr tho crabs/lobsters/shrimp have always grossed me out and the few times i've tried them i wanted to barf

Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y

I like fried shrimp, like the small ones in fried rice, but crabs and lobsters have always been a no for me. It's not even that I think they're gross, I just don't want to eat them.

Aru@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y (8 replies)

You'd eat a sardine, but not a dolphin? I don't understand

ubermeisters@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (7 replies)
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Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y

sardines dont have exoskeleton. they have scales as their skin, and a verterbral column we call spine.

Aru@lemmygrad.ml · -2 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Both exoskeleton, both are fish, same difference, there's a lot of factors that decide a person's preference in food not one thing.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You... think a dolphin is a fish?

Also, neither have exo (as in, external) skeletons.

Aru@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y

That's besides my point, the post is obviously a shitpost and arguing any further makes us look like 🤓☝️

Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

neither have exo-skeleton, and dolphins are mammals, they give birth to already formed animals insted of laying eggs.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y

exo-skeleton, my autocorrect changed my word

Life2Space@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y

Is there anything wrong with that?

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Yes.

absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Lemme eat the yummy watery fellas

visnudeva@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
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reverendsteveii@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

This is the most clear cut "2 types of people in the world" problem I've ever seen