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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sea bugs come pre-seasoned

[–] frenchfryenjoyer 21 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Idk where this myth started from but shrimp and lobsters are crustaceans, a separate class of arthropods within the phylum arthropoda. arthropoda is a massive phylum and bugs belong to the class insecta. lobsters and shrimp belong to crustacea so calling shrimp bugs is like calling whales hippos because they're both from the clade artiodactyla /nerdmode off

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Insects are crustaceans. As are isopods. Interestingly, spiders are not

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Actually, hexapoda was moved taxonomically to be classed as Crustaceans due to new research. The new clade is called Pancrustacea. Insects can now properly be called "terrestrial crustaceans"

I would however like to point out that literally none of the pictured animals are bugs.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 11 hours ago

One of the definitions of bug is "small arthropod with many legs"

Take your nerdmode into the shop, its database is defective.

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago

Shrimps is bugs!

[–] hark@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

lukewarm coffee: gross

hot coffee: great

it's almost as if different things are different

[–] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

You mentioned the same thing, at different temperatures. It's literally the same THING.

A shrimp is not the same thing as a Megaloblatta Longipennis.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Ice is just water at a different temperature.

The difference being even bigger between crustaceans and bugs just makes my point stronger.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Thought you were just shitposting with that name...

Now I just wish you were.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Im only down with eating clean bugs that are large enough to have enough substance to be worthwhile or whatever makes it into processed foods and “foods” that I eat (jelly beans arent really food and frequently have shellac and that comes from a specific beetle.)

[–] goofystench@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

how tf can you call seafood wet bugs????

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Because shrimp is bugs that is wet

[–] goofystench@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

NO. SHRIMP IS SHRIMP 😤😤 have some respect

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Shrimp is shrimp and shrimp is bugs.

The question should not be whether that is a problem, the question is what other tasty bugs are you missing out on due to cultural programming?

Having tried chocolate locusts and spicy scorpions, I personally can say: not a lot, actually, I don't like any of them.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

Fixing the bugs

[–] protist@mander.xyz 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

The line of arthropods that broke off to become Insecta did so in the Devonian Period, roughly 400 million years ago. Centipedes evolved in the fucking Silurian. Comparing these two groups is kinda like comparing raccoons, possums, and platypuses to fish.

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Shrimps is bugs!

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's almost as absurd as comparing fish to fish

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Ichthyophobia isn't cool. Take your hateful beliefs elsewhere.

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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I used to love shrimp but in the past few years I've started going off it, not sure why.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 27 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Non-alarmist answer: tastes can change over time for no real reason. Some mild reasons it could change is pallet fatigue, prep and cook time seeming not worth it and so you crave it less, and changes in overall perception. A person who is slowly becoming vegan for moral or health reasons will naturally stop wanting certain meat products.

Alarmist answer: I don't know man. You've probably got some weird cancer or something.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

*palate fatigue

I work in wine importing so this is a mistake I make all the damn time.

pallet- thing used to strap stuff to so they can be put on containers (for container trucks and ships).

palate - roof of your mouth or an alternate word for your taste

Palette- painter’s thing for holding paint.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 points 13 hours ago

Speech to text strikes again.

[–] felsiq@lemmy.zip 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Increasingly alarmist answer: you’ve heard about eyestalk ablation and it’s subconsciously ruining your enjoyment of farmed shrimp

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

The fucking horrors we do. Hey if we give them anaesthetic before we burn out their eyes they seem less distressed. Fucking gross.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Lack of deveining?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Maybe it's because you now know they are bugs

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