I kind of miss when Hot Topic used to sell crickets and snacks, they were pretty good no cap
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.
Well, wet bug meat are actually tasty, those land bugs are mostly chitin shells and not much protein, also the taste is not good.
Chocolate covered crickets, at least, are a regional delicacy. I’m sure some culture has figured out how to prepare large beetles and centipedes as well.
They eat giant silk worms in China. Apparently they’re pretty good.
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Even before I went vegan I never understood seafood. Who wants to tear a crab leg apart for a tiny bit of meat?
It’s part of the experience. Same thing can be said for something like chicken wings or un-shelled nuts
Me!
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
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.
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?
It’s a relatively common practice. Oysters especially.
The guy complaining about how common it is doesn’t seem to live in any of those regions though. Most seafood is not consumed live, even in those places. It’s weird that that’s the major complaint with seafood.
Many people go their entire seafood eating lives while never eating from a live creature.
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.
This just sounds like you’ve got some kind of mania.
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.
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.
you just have to channel your inner frog and swallow the living animal whole
(i have never eaten raw oyster)
You gotta try it bruh, on the half shell with cocktail sauce and horseradish 🤤
Agree. That’s why I go king crab!
The meat is that good.
I feel the same about lobster and crayfish. A lot of work for a lot of money and very little gain.
I absolutely love both the flavor of the meat and the feeling of ripping it apart with my hands.
Having had lobster exactly once, I really don’t understand. The meat tastes like nothing, exactly like 99% of all meat. The only exception is a good beef cut, and that still has to be prepared correctly. Everything else is just about the butter, salt, spices.
The manual part I can kind of understand, honestly. There’s something rewarding about working for your food. Though I did feel like I’m using more energy to get the food than I end up consuming. It’s like a lick-mat for dogs.
Stop don’t do this to me
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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
You’ve eaten interesting crickets. Those that I know have no bones.
You’re thinking of in bones. Crickets have out 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.
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’
Shrimps is bugs
I wonder if that guy knew his post would explode into a meme
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
Really just gets easier over time, until it’s just a habit
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.
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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well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they’re surrounded by water all the time
And presalted lol.
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!
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…
XKCD 1268 by Randall Munroe (CC BY-NC 2.5).
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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.
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I don’t get what you’re trying to tell me.
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.vegetarians
Aka [Eating bugs without knowing you’re eating bugs]
Do people eat centipedes?
Regularly, no, but parts of south east asia may dabble.
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