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shrimp is bugs (mander.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.

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

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

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

Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.

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

Well.. They are

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

A family member has bit, hook, line and sinker. Om the great reset conspiracy theory. He says Bill Gates wants to force us to eat bugs. I respond "You love shrimp?". He states its different I don't see the difference..

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Bill Gates came to my house last night with a gun and a plate of cockroaches.

He told me if I didn’t eat it he would shoot my family and shoot me last.

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

Listen, he should've at least offered to kill you first. That's the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.

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

Crustaceans aren't insects, for starters

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Fun lobster fact: They used to feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts because they were considered unclean animals since they crawled along the ocean floor and nobody else would eat them.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

Fun fact about that fun fact. They ground them up shell and all before serving them to the prisoners so yeah it was still garbage food.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Recently, we were in the canteen at work and a colleague, who moved here a few years ago, told that she never had rhubarb before.

Then she asked me, probably just for vocab reasons: Rhubarb is a vegetable?

Uhh...

I had never thought about it. I mean, what the heck is this:

Could be a salad, a leafy green. It's kind of similar to celery, but is celery even a vegetable? Well, and of course, rhubarb is often used like a fruit, so uh...

Well, I looked it up, and scientifically, it does count as a vegetable, but colloquially, it's often considered a fruit.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Like today's computer scientists, early biologists sucked at inventing new words, and simply reused existing ones. "Berry" in common language is a small, usually sweet and edible, fruit. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are all berries.

Then biologists came along and decided, actually, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are out, but watermelon and bananas are in, because the size of the fruit doesn't matter, only the placement of the seeds decides whether something is a proper, scientific berry.

A similar thing has happened with "fruit" and "vegetable", where scientific fruits include cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins. Luckily, all three of these are also berries.

I say we ignore them, and use words to mean sensible things.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Or we move on with our lives and accept that fruit don't have to be sweet and vegetables don't have to be savory. Life is beautiful and nature constantly challenges expectations.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them "βerries", next one "ϐerries" (cursive beta)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pronounced "cherries"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply "food"

simple yet accurate. I'm a scientist now.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Rhubarb is pretty weird, especially for people who grew up where it's not a thing.

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

You refuse to eat bugs because they are "disgusting and gross"

I refuse to eat bugs because I love them too much. We are not the same.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’m allergic. No bugs for me!

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

guy on the right knows shellfish and bugs are equally gross

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad

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

And I eat snails, so what?

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

Rollie pollies is shellfish

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

I have a very open view towards food that is served to me (in good faith). If you honor me by serving me a meal you enjoy I will eat it, whatever it is. If you serve me live cockroaches while laughing I'm not going to say what I'd do, bad faith gets bad actions. But I never choose to eat shrimp unless they're served to me. I ate some last week unfortunately. In context, it wasn't terrible.

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

I’m allergic so: Insects or Crustacea = disgusting. Cockroaches of the sea.

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

I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.

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