I never had lobster/king crab.
Anime says it’s tasty. Is it?
It’s worth trying. Lobster has a mild flavor and a smooth chewy texture. It tastes great with butter and lemon, though there are probably better ways to enjoy it. Crab is similar. One thing that takes some training and patience is removing the exoskeleton. But, that’s pretty fun, too. My kiddo likes to play with the claws afterward. When no one’s looking, I do too.
IMO lobster kind of sucks. People douse it in butter because it does not have a ton of flavor.
Never had king crab. I do love occasionally having dungeness crab out of the Sound though.
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overrated, but good enough to give it a try.
Lobster is a bit overrated IMO but crab is the best food there is.
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XKCD 1268 by Randall Munroe (CC BY-NC 2.5).
Transcription:
Imagine you were transported to an alternate universe just like your own, except people occasionally ate spiders. You can’t convince anyone this is weird. [[Two figures stand. A woman is holding a big spider. The other figure looks shocked. There is another spider on the floor.]] Woman: Mmm… Figure: No! What are you doing!? This is how I feel about lobster.
{{Title text: As best as I can tell, I was transported here from Earth Prime sometime in the late 1990s. Your universe is identical in every way, except for the lobster thing and the thing where some of you occasionally change your clocks for some reason.}}
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It wouldn’t be weird to land bugs if they had that tasty meat crustaceans do. I’m big for alternative sources of protein like bugs, but the fact is they taste like shit.
Interesting. So, what bugs have you eaten?
Yeah, I had some salsa with crickets added, it tasted earthy, but not completely unpleasant. Lobster, crab, crawfish, etc. have a much more pleasant taste.
Nah, taste is fine. It’s the texture that’s weird
agreed. ive had crickets at a local restaurant and once when i went to ecuador i had these giant roasted termites. both were well prepared and tasted good, but they also both (the termites in particular) had a bad texture and had pieces that just didn’t want to get swallowed. like if popcorn had 200% more kernel.
I have it on pretty good authority of the film Snowpiercer that bug bars are delicious.
I tried a mealworm chocolate bar once. Can NOT confirm.
If there were 2lb spiders that taste like lobster roaming around on land I would sure as fuck be out in the woods with a net every weekend.
Surely you mean a flamethrower.
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chinese proverb: everything is tasty if you fry it enough.
Ate fried bugs. Can confirm they aren’t tasty at all.
I don’t know, I love fried crickets! Great beer snack!
Tequila and roasted garlic crickets
Mmm, that works too!
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Did too, theres not much taste. Or flesh at all.
Made up proverb: if you’re starving to death, even dogs become food.
I thought that was a Texan proverb.
Everything is tasty with some salt/the right spice.
Top right image just needs more Old Bay
People eat bugs all over the planet.
2 billion insects eaters over 7 billion humans worldwide to be exact
yeah i’ve been vegetarian my whole life and lobster / crab always seemed particularly disgusting. the bodies are segmented!! they have exoskeletons!! vile!!
Funny this could be used to describe a peanut
The whole boiling alive thing always put me off. Torturing a creature to death for a morsel of food never seemed quite right to me.
I’ll play devil’s advocate. I think a lobster suffers less in 20 seconds (or whatever) of boiling than a pig being raised for a few weeks.
You’re probably not wrong, but a pig does at least provide more than a few mouthfuls of food.
Not that I condone the suffering.
Common practice nowadays is to kill it just before cooking with a quick knife blow to the noggin
I’m pretty sure I gobbled up a spider and/or a small stink bug while eating berries the other day
Oh well
A good source of protein along with the carbs.
Probably some bird poop, too
Probably? Most definitely!
Cladistically, insects are a type of crustacean.
Also, none of the animals portrayed are bugs in the strict sense, which are a specific suborder of insects.I’ve wondered about this before, just from the perspective of North Americans. Bugs that live in the water? Delicious and fine to eat. Actually look at a shrimp, though. If it lived on the surface people would never consider eating that. I also noticed a lot of people don’t really realize that at some point shrimp have heads. What gets me is how people have strong feelings but don’t seem to have thought it through.
I’ve had strong feelings ever since I realized the little nubbins were where its legs used to be. Now I just eat them anyway and consciously don’t think about it
Aren’t shrimps are basically cockroaches of the sea? They’re delicious though lol.
I think it’s the lobster that’s the ocean cockroach. Maybe shrimps too, I dunno.
I believe shrimp are closer to isopods (roly polies and such), though I may be mistaken
if that lived on the surface you’d never consider eating it
If it lived on the surface and tasted like shrimp I’d have to be convinced once and only once.
The thing is most people here are completely revolted by the idea of eating insects and would not consider trying to eat one to find out. It’s a lot more being viscerally repelled than any analysis of flavor.
Okay but that’s entirely a cultural thing. There are cultures that readily and enthusiastically eat insects. There are cultures that are disgusted by pork, or beef. There’s at least one culture I can think of where the average person is viscerally disgusted by the idea of eating garlic or onion because harvesting the plant necessitates killing it.
The presumption in this whole thread is that there is something essential to insects that makes them wrong and bad to eat. Everyone in this thread is, of course, welcome to eat anything that they like, but if you’re disgusted by insects that’s something that’s been cultivated in you rather than something inherent to insects.
Besides, there are a near infinite number of things we eat routinely that I think most of us would find disgusting if we hadn’t been conditioned to it. Think about oysters. Who was the first person to think “I’m gonna bash this rock with that rock and eat the booger that lives in the middle?” Someone who was absolutely right, because oysters are delicious, but still had to be very brave to try it at first. Don’t even get me started on the myriad cultured and fermented foods that we all eat on the regular…
I agree, it’s definitely. My instinct tells me to simply not eat beef, yet everyone around me does, and so I’m dragged into this. Insects, on the other hand, aren’t so gross to me, given the right species.
Sure, it’s absolutely a cultural thing. If you look back to what I said originally, I specified people in North America. I’m aware that it’s different in other cultures and I agree. The fermented food thing is interesting too, like, cheese… okay, we’ll squirt some stuff out of a large mammal’s breasts, leave it sitting around in a cave to be digested by bacteria for a while, then consume it with great joy. And of course, some cultures like China don’t consume milk or cheese at all (last I knew), while in nearby Mongolia, fermented yak’s milk is popular. On some level that would be horrifying, such as I am horrified by ‘stinky tofu’ but I love bleu cheese. I also have similar feelings about oysters and clams, like, why would I eat this bizarre weird bug living on the bottom of a lake?
So really what I mean is it’s interesting how people have such firm feelings and beliefs about what sort of food is appetizing or not based on culture. It’s essentially all upbringing, societal pressure, familiarity and habit, and nothing at all about rationality.
If it’s a cultural thing that means at one time it wasn’t that way, and it can change back. That’s all.
Sea bugs are delicious and have more meat than land bugs, I’ve eat crickets before and it’s 80% bones/ definitely not meat and 20% actual meat
Snail is a “bug” and it’s 100% meat.
Snails are more in the same category as squids and octopuses, and I know people who won’t eat those because they’re ‘gross’
And you have escargot for just that. Guess I’m missing your point.
You’ve eaten interesting crickets. Those that I know have no bones.
Exoskeleton is still a form of bone, I use bone because it’s shorter
It’s not though. Bone is a fundamentally different material.
We knew what you meant, mind.
The bones of my house are also fundamentally different material to human bones. Not really sure what point I’m trying to make here but there you go
Is your house a 15th century gothic chapel?
Not really… but yeah there was no question that’s what tou meant, in my mind at least.
You’re thinking of in bones. Crickets have out bones.
We don’t eat the crunchy bits of our wet bugs. And their flesh is delicious.
Soft shell lobster, though, right? Granted, I’d think it’s less crunchy, but still…
I do sincerely worry about insects being added as filler materials as time goes on. I have a shellfish allergy, and the same allergens that exist in the shells of shellfish also exist in most insects.
Would proper labelling ameliorate this worry for you?
Proper labelling would seem to be a requirement anyways if they aggravate shellfish allergies, I think the concern is more “if this starts getting used in more foods my choices for food will shrink and I may no longer be able to eat the foods I like now”.
It’s definitely both. A lot of folks don’t understand that insects and shellfish are similar, and I’ve yet to see “product may contain insect meal / aggravate shellfish allergies” on things that have crickets or are processed in facilities that handle insect meal. So, the FDA likely needs to catch up. But, it’s also a cheap filler protein that’s easily grown, and companies are cheap bastards, so it’s going to slowly find its way in and push out more expensive protein options.
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