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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Insects are crustaceans. As are isopods. Interestingly, spiders are not

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Shrimps is bugs!

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

lukewarm coffee: gross

hot coffee: great

it's almost as if different things are different

[–] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Thought you were just shitposting with that name...

Now I just wish you were.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ice is just water at a different temperature.

The difference being even bigger between crustaceans and bugs just makes my point stronger.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 80 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized.

take it back

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago

Unlimited soup, salad, and stickbugs.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, chitin is really hard to digest and sensitive stomachs will have issues.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Ichthyophobia isn't cool. Take your hateful beliefs elsewhere.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tell yourself what er you need to in order to enjoy that crawfish.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'll tell myself it's juicy and delicious

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

dont need to tell anything just need to eat it

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[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

Fixing the bugs

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.)

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

one side takes regular baths.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I've started going off it, not sure why.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

*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.

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[–] felsiq@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Increasingly alarmist answer: you’ve heard about eyestalk ablation and it’s subconsciously ruining your enjoyment of farmed shrimp

The fucking horrors we do. Hey if we give them anaesthetic before we burn out their eyes they seem less distressed. Fucking gross.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Are we suggesting that Scorpion would taste similar to lobster?

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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sea bugs come pre-seasoned

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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