• ox0r@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    Fuck yes, people freak out about eating crickets or shit but then proceed to eat a huge spiderlike creature that’s mushy inside (crabs)

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      To be fair, I had ice cream with crickets all over them, and honestly it had a kind of woody / pukey aftertaste that I couldn’t get through. I wondered if part of the problem is you can’t de-vein the little things. Aren’t you basically eating their shit?

      I can de-vein a shrimp, and I only care for lobster tail.

    • I actually wanna try those crickets I heard they sell at a baseball stadium somewhere in the Eastern side the states. Apparently, they are the most popular concession there and they come in a variety of flavors like sour cream & onion.

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        Crickets actually aren’t bad on their own. We did a “Fear Factor” themed fundraiser for Katrina relief back in high school. We made cricket sugar cookies, cricket-covered chocolate strawberries, flavored mealworms, things like that. Things weren’t selling as well as we would have wanted, so, being the weird kid with an extra bag of crickets, I stated that I would eat a live cricket for every $20 that was pledged. That ended up raising an old extra $140, and I ate 7 crickets in front of my classmates. They were relatively tasteless, and, since I found that it didn’t gross me out, years later, when I was an educator at our local aquarium, I would use, “Wanna see me eat a live bug?” strategically to bribe my summer camp kids into staying calm. If they were well behaved for an hour after lunch, I would pop one of the feeder crickets into my mouth. It brought much joy and disgust to the 10 year olds.

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        Crickets when fried are basically like chips, but with more texture (crunchier)

        Definately a level 1 level of trying insects.

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        They are decently popular in Mexico. From what I have heard it tastes like the fry batter and seasoning so basically delicious.

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      Almost like they have actual meat on them?

      Trying to gaslight into “eat the bugs” isn’t going to work

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        They’re pretty much all meat? Bugs aren’t empty. Chill out man

        I’m not trying to convince anyone, I do think the double standards are pretty stupid. I never ate a tarantula but I’m sure its pretty meaty.

        Also everyone uses gas lighting in different contexts so I think the word should be banned. I don’t have a clue anymore what it is supposed to mean.

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          When I was in Cambodia, I saw street vendors frying up tarantulas, with lots of locals gathering around for snacks.

          I’m not sure I’m ready to eat that, but they seemed to like it.

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            Well how are you defining meat? Terrestrial insect meat and crab or lobster meat is structurally pretty much the same. It’s all muscle fibers.

            The big difference is that you can’t really extract the insect meat like you would with a crab, so you’re stuck eating the whole thing, meat and everything else, which is probably where a lot of the apprehension comes from. And to be fair I think that’s a pretty big difference. A lot of cultures try to avoid eating “everything else” up and down the food chain.

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                Ah, so you’re treating your intuition like it’s universal fact and then claiming to be the victim of gaslighting when someone disagrees. Have a great life!

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                    “Meat is muscle, and insects must have muscles to move - its just that their muscles are inside their external skeleton rather than outside their internal skeleton. In fact i have seen insect muscle, when i watched a preying mantis eat a large blow-fly.”

                    https://www.interestinganswers.com/are-insects-considered-meat/

                    No longer must you suffer looking like a fucking idiot, making claims unsubstantiated simply because you “feel” they’re correct.

                    Behold! Google!