If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.
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Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.
Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.
Well.. They are
Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!
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..
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.
Listen, he should've at least offered to kill you first. That's the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.
Crustaceans aren't insects, for starters
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
🅱️erries
If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them "βerries", next one "ϐerries" (cursive beta)
Γerries
Pronounced "cherries"
i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply "food"
simple yet accurate. I'm a scientist now.
simple yet accurate
this describes engineers more in my experience. science embraces the chaos of discovery. engineers just want to make fruit salad.
I've never had rhubarb. I've heard it's sweet (people make pies out of it), but it looks like celery, which is one of my most hated foods. What does it actually taste like? Is it palatable raw?
The best jam I ever had was raspberry rhubarb
Rhubarb is actually really sour. As in, if you eat too much of it, your teeth will start feeling as if they're covered in fur, because it genuinely fucks with your enamel. (Rhubarb contains oxalic acid, which is also used in some tooth whitening products).
But it's basically never eaten without adding a boatload of sugar to it. So, you can kind of imagine it like those sour sweets, but stronger, and of course, it's a plant, so the taste is somewhat richer (although still not very rich for a plant).
As for eating it raw, well, then you can't really add sugar to it, so basically not palatable. I mean, you can do it, but unless you really like sour, it's just not good.
And it's only really similar to celery in terms of its texture and crunch. The taste is completely different.
Bugs is good
Not all, shrimp is kinda gross TBH. But I'm excited to try new cicada recipes this summer.
I’m allergic. No bugs for me!
Crawfish are literally called mud bugs in a lot of places. I think lobsters and langoustines should also be under the bug umbrella.
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Hot take: Bugs is shrimp?
And I eat snails, so what?
Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad
*wet bug
Rollie pollies is shellfish
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.
I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.
I’m allergic so: Insects or Crustacea = disgusting. Cockroaches of the sea.
I'll eat crawdads all day. But the WEF can keep their crickets.
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