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.
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.
Interesting. So, what bugs have you eaten?
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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.
well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they’re surrounded by water all the time
And presalted lol.
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.
And you have escargot for just that. Guess I’m missing your point.
Snails are more in the same category as squids and octopuses, and I know people who won’t eat those because they’re ‘gross’
Even before I went vegan I never understood seafood. Who wants to tear a crab leg apart for a tiny bit of meat?
I absolutely love both the flavor of the meat and the feeling of ripping it apart with my hands.
The meat is that good.
Me!
Agree. That’s why I go king crab!
I feel the same about lobster and crayfish. A lot of work for a lot of money and very little gain.
It’s part of the experience. Same thing can be said for something like chicken wings or un-shelled nuts
So fucking gross, I’ll literally never be able to wrap my head around it. Also what’s worh seafood lover’s obsessions with eating things alive yo that’s psychopath shit
I love seafood, and eat all manner of seafood, and have not once, in my entire life, seen anyone eat LIVE seafood.
Who the fuck are you hanging out with?
Oysters on the half shell, raw, are alive not dead. I love seafood too, and eat raw sashimi grade fish all the time but yeah I’ve never eaten a raw alibe oyster either.
I literally can not even be around people eating seafood, like if younwere the most fantastic person and I were madly in love with you and you asked me to meet at a sushi bar or go home, I’d be on my way home.
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Ok. Doesn’t change my reality or statement so
What if I promise to bring you Chicken fingers and french fries?
I would appreciate the intent, and attempt to meet me part way, but I really can’t eat around seafood tbh. It makes me nauseous to smell it even. No idea how so many other people go through life without this curse.
Like a shrimp is basically a rectum.
All animals are basically digestive tubes with add-on parts to help move it and keep it alive.
Shrimps is bugs
Yep, I ate fried grasshopper once and it tasted exactly like shrimp.
Ugh, I cannot tell if this makes me more or less interested, and I love shrimp.
When I think too much about it, eating any meat really does gross me out. I still do but occasionally get tempted to try going vegetarian or something. I’m just too damn lazy
You don’t have to do it religiously. You can eat meat in one occasion, and avoid it in another. Especially these days the meat-supplements are getting pretty good. I would opt for them more often if they weren’t more expensive than real meat.
I myself find all those industrial meat alternatives pretty disgusting, especially considering what stuff they put in it to make it taste and feel like the real thing.
I’d rather mix my faux-meat myself, even while I’m not completely vegetarian, just almost.
Care to share your recipe?
Soy proteine, boiling water, some wheat flour, eggs and whatever spices you like. Makes for great burger patties. Don’t have the exact ratio of ingredients in my head right now, though.
Really just gets easier over time, until it’s just a habit
I can relate to this so I’ll just add that aligning my diet with my values was the best decision I’ve ever made. Being able to eat without feeling guilty/confused/complicated was life-changing. I didn’t do it all at once, or torture myself.
And we live at this amazing time when you can be lazy AND get amazing not-morally-horrible food! Typing this as I munch on an entire package of addictive store bought animal-free chocolate chip cookies :P
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I wonder if that guy knew his post would explode into a meme
Well, wet bug meat are actually tasty, those land bugs are mostly chitin shells and not much protein, also the taste is not good.
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Wet bugs are very distant**ly&* related to earth bugs.
Won’t you eat chicken just because pidgeons are disgusting? (yet also eaten sometimes)
Pigeons are delicious though
yeah look up the passenger pigeon. Used to be delicious
My uncle had an old silo with a broken roof and he and my dad would sit at the bottom and shoot the pigeons for dinner. I still remember my grandmother sitting outside the house plucking feathers all day. The 90s were fun in my family.
Pigeons literally exist in the us because they were imported for food iirc
For a foreigner: shouldn’t it be “distantly related” instead?
Yeah that or distant relatives
Oh, I’m no native speaker either
No problem with pigeon if it’s been raised for food, or had a life in nature. I’m just not eating the ones in urban centres that have been eating trash all their lives.
I should’ve come up with a better analogy…
Depends on the pigeon, some are absolute Chads
People eat bugs all over the planet.
We don’t eat the crunchy bits of our wet bugs. And their flesh is delicious.
Fun fact… lobster and crayfish were so disdained once that it was literally only used to feed prisoners.
*Preserved crawfish and lobster, which tastes like shit because it’s been transported in a barrel for many days.
Most of what we eat today is either fresh or frozen, not mushy decomposing meat.
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Not even wet ones?
Thanks for sharing 👍
Will you get in the pod?
vegetarians
Aka [Eating bugs without knowing you’re eating bugs]
Stop don’t do this to me
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Top right image just needs more Old Bay
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!
