We’ll all have to adjust to eating land bugs soon enough. Those of us who enjoy ocean bugs have a small headstart.
So is crab and molluscs
At least the message is delivered on a cake.
And they’re fucking delicious.
People and fish are more closely related than shrimp and insects
People are fish and shrimp is bugs
People, fish, shrimp, and bugs are worms.
The taxonomy puts us right about the same, splitting after phylum. That being said, a shrimp looks a hell of a lot more like a silverfish than I do like a carp.
Well, depending on my general state of health.
Typical chordate-centric arthropodophobia
Did you just assume my phyla?
ever eaten anything with red in it? (like the icing decorations on the pictured cake)
https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html
Also, ever eaten a shiny candy? Chances are is coated in confectioners glaze, which is a fancy word for shellac, which is an insect excretion.
That’s pretty interesting.
You never think about it, but most of everything is dyed. And that dye has to come from somewhere.Chocolate milk uses red algae as a stabilizer
https://smea.uw.edu/currents/theres-seaweed-in-your-milk-how-algae-drives-our-food-system/
They juicy bugs though, not as juicy as lobsters though
Are shrimps bugs, though?
Depends on the definition of bug. Entemological true bugs are a very specific class of insects, but the term bug was used to describe any arthropod for significantly longer than proper taxonomy has been around.
So if you’re a biologist, no, if you’re an anthropologist, yes.
Someone covered in brine shrimp would be more likely to feel covered in bugs than covered in marine crustaceans though.
I’d like to subscribe to more covered in sea creatures facts.
Giant isopods have been filmed swarming sharks to impede their movement and gill function when the local detritus is lacking nutrients.
Yay!
Hell there’s a video of them killing small sharks. Terrifying little bugs.
Entomological etymology.
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Very similar to cock roaches. At least taste wise.
Shrimps be bugs
What flavor is the cake?
Chicken.
It’s an ugly planet. A bug planet.
Remember the bug planet, Vegeta?
Lobsters are commonly referred to as bugs as well.
There is no scientific definition of “bug”, but the folk definition seems to be any invertebrate, typically with more than four limbs.
The order Hemiptera would like a word with you.
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Tons of people happily eat insects too. Chapulines are pretty good, escamoles are popular, silk worm is eaten in Korea and Thailand, there’s Witchetty grubs and honeypot ants…
Shrimp as well. It’s weird and for me the flavor isn’t good enough to justify eating weird crunchy sea bugs
Crunchy? You aren’t supposed to eat the shell
Moist crunch, not hard crunch. Like grapes I guess. It’s gross.
I’ve eaten cooked bugs before, properly prepared, it’s pretty good
Can’t remember what kind of bug it was specifically, but I do remember it was fried
Small crickets maybe? I haven’t had them in years but they’re delicious with the right seasoning.
Sounds about right, I keep thinking Cockroaches, but I’d be too grossed out about those bastards so it was probably crickets lol
I would never eat a fucking cockroach. Disgusting things.
They seemed to be a common enough ingredient in tacos for the short while I was in Mexico. They are pretty good.
Yeah the ones I had were in Mexico. So crunchy and good with salt, lime, and chili.
I’ve eaten multiple types of insects. All but one (giant water bug, tasted way too much like juniper, which I hate) have been decent. Ants are kind of citrusy because of the formic acid. Meal worms and the beetle larvae I had were kind of nutty. The crickets I had were the style they do in Oaxaca, Mexico, which is fried with chile and lime, so it’s basically just crunchy chili lime flavor.
Incidentally, you can get cricket flour, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can either use it as a flour substitute (it also has a nutty flavor) or blend it with plant-based flours and use it in a standard baking recipe either way. And you won’t get little legs stuck in your teeth or anything.
Eric?
