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[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (3 children)

crustaceans and insects are two different things, not real complicated. The crustaceans have actual meat, not a fluid filled exoskeleton.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I dunno... Have you ever opened a crab up before cooking it? It's pretty much all goo inside an exoskeleton.

[–] BRBWaffles 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While it is inaccurate to characterize crustaceans as bugs, they are arthropods and share an enormous amount of anatomical and psychological features with insects. Both have open circulatory systems and use hemolymph to hydraulically operate their limbs. That "meat" that you're talking about is only really visible after cooking, and consists mostly of denatured and congealed hemolymph.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Large bugs definitely have some meat on them. Chomp on a large beetle and you will see