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[–] FunnyUsername 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] clearedtoland 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 5 points 1 year ago

Except the rich, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I don’t eat either. I’m consistent.

[–] kemsat 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ocean flavor really elevates them beyond terrestrial bugs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Call it by its name. They are salty.

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Koppensneller 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you know they don't?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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. πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Who even has a problem with this?

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hate both

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Sanctus 7 points 1 year ago

Nice try, CIA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ChicoSuave 6 points 1 year ago

Scrimps is bugs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ekZepp 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is there anything wrong with that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemme eat the yummy watery fellas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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