If you've got cleaned, cooked seafood that smells like fish shit, you're at a shitty restaurant. My only takeaway from this is that we should really see if we can make terrestrial insects taste as delicious as we make aquatic insects taste.

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

Well the latter have more "meat" on them, whereas bugs are mostly just "shells" once they die. You aren't eating the shells of crustaceans, you're eating the innards

The bottom ones have delectable white meat inside. The top ones are all brown guts and crispy, musty shell. Nobody is shelling crickets for a worthwhile piece of meat inside like you do a shrimp or a lobster.

They look similar to bugs, sure. But let's not pretend it's the same thing.

TL;DR: disgust is learned.

• How Do Toddlers Learn About Disgust
• Is moral disgust socially learned?
• Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behavior

Bottom line is that while there are things that we're hard-wired to reject, the rest is more about what social groups teach us at a young age. Also, we can overcome the hard-wired aspects to an extent, again through social reinforcement.

Oh I can explain it easily! One of them tastes good and the other one tastes bad. That's pretty much it... Not sure how it's so confusing though

Shrimps is bugs

I live in a fishing town, and I used to love crab, until I was adult and it was my turn to prep them. The first time I turned a crab over and saw the bottom, where all its freaky little legs connect, I had a real "oh god this is either a bug or a space alien" moment. I can't stand crab anymore, just the thought of it makes me feel nauseated. Lobster too. Somehow shrimps are okay, though.

If all the meat on earth disappeared tomorrow, I would become a vegetarian before ever knowingly consuming a bug.

I've had crispy dried grasshoppers that were chill once, and some BANGIN cricket tacos in NYC.

They're actually pretty great for protein.

I'll eat as many bugs as a billionare eats.

I don't have to eat the shells, offal, or shit of I eat the big sea ones though.

In case your serious that you don’t get it. The bottom pic is all crustaceans that are more closely related to insects than fish.

Nah fam you can keep the sea bugs, too.

Stamets, do you want me to catch the 4 inch cockroach that I've been raising free-range in my apartment and send it to you to find out? It's on a non-GMO diet.

Most people are definitely quite squeamish about eating unshelled shrimp. This feels like a strawman.

All you need is salt to make them taste like sea bugs.

I don't eat water bugs either. They're also gross.

Sea roaches

they’re in the water so they’re clean obvs