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.
Interesting. So, what bugs have you eaten?
Nah, taste is fine. It’s the texture that’s weird
Well, wet bug meat are actually tasty, those land bugs are mostly chitin shells and not much protein, also the taste is not good.
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
Wet bugs are very distantly related to earth bugs.
Won’t you eat chicken just because pidgeons are disgusting? (yet also eaten sometimes)
Pigeons are delicious though
Pigeons literally exist in the us because they were imported for food iirc
For a foreigner: shouldn’t it be “distantly related” instead?
Oh, I’m no native speaker either
Depends on the pigeon, some are absolute Chads
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
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?
Will you get in the pod?
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!
I kind of miss when Hot Topic used to sell crickets and snacks, they were pretty good no cap
Jerma made this meme
As long as they are all well fried 👌 🍤 🍤 🍤
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.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
