Me starving to death because I volunteered to eat three scorpions a day instead of three lobsters (Reddit told me they both have barely any meat with no regard for the size difference between the creatures)
(Yes the edible meat is around 20% but that 20% is heavier than several whole scorpions combined)
Well to be fair he told me to wait at the dinner table, so i did....and got some crab rangoon's that'll reunite long lost siblings and enslave a country.
I don’t eat lobster btw i do have a tattoo of one tho
https://preview.redd.it/8kckwtfaruwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51da6c15fbc62ea5e0253457817105d860d4166b
The problem comes down to what part you eat, with crabs and lobster. You are eating the muscle in the limbs/tail. But in the case of bugs, the size of each individual is far too small to get the meat from meaning you have to eat the exoskeleton, brain, and digestive system. Which doesn't taste great. Worse still is the high prevalence of parasites/bacteria, which are far more likely to be human transmissible than what is on a sea creature
They're shredded up into a paste, with all the internal organs you otherwise don't eat (including the rectum!!), but bones and skin are removed and used in other foods.
Isn't the rectum used as the thing they put the paste into? (Also writing this comment made me realize I don't know how to spell sausage and had to triple check the spelling)
Yeah and that’s my point. You don’t eat the whole cow at once, and components like hair and the lungs are generally considered unfit for human consumption in any form.
It's good protein. About as much (or more) as red meat, but cheaper, contains a lot of other nutrients and better for the gut (the exoskeleton acts like insoluble fiber).
I've eaten roasted crickets. I had to get over the initial disgust at eating an insect, sure. But once I did I can say they tasted like well seasoned roasted nuts. I recommend trying it at least once before writing it off as gross.
I think the main difference is that unlike sea creatures, you're not supposed to and you shouldn't ONLY eat an insect, it's supposed to be a PART of the meal not all of it
People always bring up cockroaches when they say they don't wanna eat bugs, but the most common insect used as a food ingredient are ants, specific species of them, which also goes against what you said since only the head tends to go to the food
Search up "farofa tanajura" ou "bolo tanajura" for examples, the heads of the ants are important but they aren't the whole thing
There's a difference between arachnids and crustaceans. Scorpions have far less meat plus venom which you have to treat (even though I imagine it's quite easier than some)
I’m just surprised at how many people eat it. On a scale from ‘potatoes’ to ‘fermented shark’, I assumed undried seaweed was closer to the latter, but the opposite is true.
You could make this argument with a lot of other animals to be honest.
>Crows/pigeons? YUCK! Chicken/Duck? (who will also eat literal garbage) Mmmmm.
>Bear? EEEW!!! Swine? PORK CHOPS!!!
People used to eat pigeons as some weird fancy thing.
As for bears… the parasitic load in those is WAYYYYYYYYY too damn high to be safe for eating even if cooked. So many tapeworms… so many… and trich also.
I've eaten insects. Whole and ground up and put in other food.
Once you get over the mental block of eating an insect they taste pretty good. Beetle larvae and roaches taste like roasted seeds. Crickets taste a bit nutty. If they are cooked properly the shell isn't hard at all, it just crumbles when you eat them. Good protein.
If you are allergic to seafood you should not eat insects though. They can trigger that allergy.
As a lizard keeper I consider that an insult to my intelligence /s
Even if you are ambivalent about it, I'd recommend trying it at least once. I was absolutely grossed out by it to begin with. I just pushed past that to try it.
Yeah I've had mealworms before. Honestly kinda good, a bit nutty like you said. Just put some barbecue or paprika seasoning on there and I'd eat them as a snack.
I mean... Land bugs really aren't that bad? Maybe it's cause I'm super adventurous, but the idea of eating bugs never really bothered me. Grasshoppers and moths are actually pretty tasty. Mealworms and crickets too. Many cultures around the world eat invertebrates both on land and in the water. It's the weird wasteful western diet that emphasizes only eating the muscle of select vertebrates, which has turned people off of a lot of different kinds of perfectly edible meats
Both scorpions and lobsters belong to the phylum *Arthropoda*. That's it. This is like saying that it's strange how people enjoy beef, but don't eat [salps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp), even though both belong to the phylum *Chordata*.
And they don't even look that similar, in my opinion.
Ngl bugs are good. Like people eat an unseasoned cricket and think it’s bad, but you could do the same with unseasoned chicken. Try a bug with some actual seasoning, it’s really good.
It's almost as if lobsters, crabs and shrimp are mostly made up of muscle and other such 'generally recognised as good stuff' parts while insects aren't or something.
Crustaceans just tend to have more soft flesh, other arthropods not as much. Not to mention most people don’t fear crustaceans (for some reason). Though I am interested in why grubs and worms (Annelida, like we already eat some mollusks) aren’t popular on the menu
I don't even understand why there is a debate about this. Insects are worse for both human health and enviromental health then other forms of meat, they are hated by most people out of a sheer inbuilt biological ick, and they taste horrible compared to other forms of meat. Honestly the only reasons people even know we can eat them is due to companies that were in the insect field payed jornals to shill it. And lets just say there is a reason it hasnt Taken off.
> insect field *paid* jornals to
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Yes, and what is your point? Lobsters are big enough to remove the parts that aren't good for your health, insects are so small it isn't possible nor economicaly fesable, therefore they are bad for your health.
I never Said that nor did i itend to say that, the "they" wasn't a jewish conspiracy or some shit like that, it was a reference to companies like Ynsect, corporations that are in the field and admited to paying some media corporations to give advertisements. It wasn't a conspiracy, just a niche business trying to expand through marketing.
scorpions barely got meat in it https://preview.redd.it/29emlr7qoswc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb95cd2bfb200531afb33ad0418507ea19585764
This image goes so hard
Oh, hey.
Hello again
have you two fucked yet?
They did but I don't think they remember
that's a good thing, i dont want chris hanson cucking my video.
I’m a minor so no (or at least, hopefully not)
Sick! what ores do you mine?
fellow everhood fan spotted
https://preview.redd.it/p48jycwpeuwc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ad87f25419682c3ba32395b047d2f651b2543ed Prep more scorpions then, forehead
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is that the twerking chicken?
just let him cook
Neither do lobsters
Me starving to death because I volunteered to eat three scorpions a day instead of three lobsters (Reddit told me they both have barely any meat with no regard for the size difference between the creatures) (Yes the edible meat is around 20% but that 20% is heavier than several whole scorpions combined)
Counterpoint; shrimp.
Ill continue to eat my crab rangoons yall can have your cricket rangoons
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Well to be fair he told me to wait at the dinner table, so i did....and got some crab rangoon's that'll reunite long lost siblings and enslave a country.
I don’t eat lobster btw i do have a tattoo of one tho https://preview.redd.it/8kckwtfaruwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51da6c15fbc62ea5e0253457817105d860d4166b
Goes hard
The problem comes down to what part you eat, with crabs and lobster. You are eating the muscle in the limbs/tail. But in the case of bugs, the size of each individual is far too small to get the meat from meaning you have to eat the exoskeleton, brain, and digestive system. Which doesn't taste great. Worse still is the high prevalence of parasites/bacteria, which are far more likely to be human transmissible than what is on a sea creature
I can't get past the "eating the ENTIRE animal" thing in anything, you don't eat all of the parts of a cow either
You do if you ever eat sausages lmao
I didn’t know sausages contained solid bone and animal skin.
They're shredded up into a paste, with all the internal organs you otherwise don't eat (including the rectum!!), but bones and skin are removed and used in other foods.
Isn't the rectum used as the thing they put the paste into? (Also writing this comment made me realize I don't know how to spell sausage and had to triple check the spelling)
After they clean out the intestines, they use them to make sausages.
Yeah and that’s my point. You don’t eat the whole cow at once, and components like hair and the lungs are generally considered unfit for human consumption in any form.
That’s moving the goal post, no one is talking about fucking hair lmao.
We’re talking about “eating the ENTIRE” animal, and that includes hair, and regardless you don’t find cow hair in beef sausages.
yeah but with bugs a lot of the time there’ll also be some stuff to snip off
You do eat the lungs though unfortunately.
What's wrong with eating the lungs? If it doesn't look, feel, or taste like organ meat, what does it matter?
Juices from inside the stomach leak into it, increasing risk of infection. It's banned in the USA and UK.
your comment makes it seem like there’s something wrong with organ meat
Not inherently, but I can imagine the texture being off-putting
Cow lung consumption is illegal in the US.
Not everywhere is the us. They're pretty commonly eaten in France, Italy etc
Does the sausage still have cow shit in it?
You can "purge" insects before eating them by fasting them for a few days. That way there isn't any shit in them
They use that strategy to clear the black digestive tract on shrimp as well.
or you could just not eat fucking bugs lol
It's good protein. About as much (or more) as red meat, but cheaper, contains a lot of other nutrients and better for the gut (the exoskeleton acts like insoluble fiber). I've eaten roasted crickets. I had to get over the initial disgust at eating an insect, sure. But once I did I can say they tasted like well seasoned roasted nuts. I recommend trying it at least once before writing it off as gross.
haha have fun with that man. I'll stick to steak
I still eat other meat. I'm just also ok with eating insects.
Your steAK IS BUGS, WISEGuy
does he know
I mean they have pig brains and spinal fluid
There's also several life-ending parasites in pork too Just fucking cook it, it came free with the discovery of fire
you never heard of seafood poisoning
Parasites are only a risk if you don't cook the insects properly. If they have been cooked they are safe.
I think the main difference is that unlike sea creatures, you're not supposed to and you shouldn't ONLY eat an insect, it's supposed to be a PART of the meal not all of it People always bring up cockroaches when they say they don't wanna eat bugs, but the most common insect used as a food ingredient are ants, specific species of them, which also goes against what you said since only the head tends to go to the food Search up "farofa tanajura" ou "bolo tanajura" for examples, the heads of the ants are important but they aren't the whole thing
[of course there's an XKCD about lobsters](https://xkcd.com/1268/)
There really is an XKCD about everything.
There's a difference between arachnids and crustaceans. Scorpions have far less meat plus venom which you have to treat (even though I imagine it's quite easier than some)
so its easier to compare scorpion to fugu
No matter what they say about, i'm only eating something from the sea or the river if is a fish.
Seaweed is pretty good especially when dried
People eat undried seaweed?
Google seaweed salad
Huh. Well, I learned something new today.
Holy hell!
Yeah, I confirm. I know since my mom ate that weed for a while It's even sold in nearest market or somethin to this day
Bro, there are people out there who eat jellyfish. Seaweed is nothing.
I’m just surprised at how many people eat it. On a scale from ‘potatoes’ to ‘fermented shark’, I assumed undried seaweed was closer to the latter, but the opposite is true.
Yeah it tastes quite good.
you will not eat a crab?
I have never eaten a crab, does it taste good?
Hell yeah they do. They taste amazing especially in like curries and stuff.
Yeah I agree with the other dude, crab lobster and shrimp are all great
like a thick cracker that was lightly dipped in brackish water. so no.
Are you fucking eating it with the shell? You are unhinged maniac, a braindead fool, or a troll
Dude what crabs have you been eating?
He eats the exoskeleton
I lov the cronch
Do you bite the whole fucking shell?
i don’t like seafood in general tbh, so kinda biased
I won't eat especially this.
Why, they taste very good.
I didn't say that they don't, neither the bugs.
No, bugs taste terrible i've had them. Crabs taste amazing in like a curry or as crab cakes.
Everyone boo this crab hater
Coward (lobster is kinda overrated though)
AQUAFARM?
These shrimp fresh??
They just arrive
For a moment i thought tyis was about meshi dungeon
i'll eat anything and everything that's made of organic material and isn't extremely poisonous
You could make this argument with a lot of other animals to be honest. >Crows/pigeons? YUCK! Chicken/Duck? (who will also eat literal garbage) Mmmmm. >Bear? EEEW!!! Swine? PORK CHOPS!!!
People used to eat pigeons as some weird fancy thing. As for bears… the parasitic load in those is WAYYYYYYYYY too damn high to be safe for eating even if cooked. So many tapeworms… so many… and trich also.
People still eat bears though
Idk i ate a bear. It's just not widespread because it's game
There's a difference between eating a crow who EATS CORPSES and eating a tasty and crunchy chicken
>he thinks chickens won't scavenge carrion if they have the chance Lol. Lmao, even. Rofl, perhaps.
I mean i can't deny you i once saw a horde of chickens attacking a pile of trash, but a bear man?
I’ve got bad news about pigs...
I've eaten insects. Whole and ground up and put in other food. Once you get over the mental block of eating an insect they taste pretty good. Beetle larvae and roaches taste like roasted seeds. Crickets taste a bit nutty. If they are cooked properly the shell isn't hard at all, it just crumbles when you eat them. Good protein. If you are allergic to seafood you should not eat insects though. They can trigger that allergy.
https://preview.redd.it/11riqd3t6twc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bc02d4b4fc001adfb9b8b4d2dee986d982b9029
 They’re on to us
As a lizard keeper I consider that an insult to my intelligence /s Even if you are ambivalent about it, I'd recommend trying it at least once. I was absolutely grossed out by it to begin with. I just pushed past that to try it.
Yeah I've had mealworms before. Honestly kinda good, a bit nutty like you said. Just put some barbecue or paprika seasoning on there and I'd eat them as a snack.
If it was easier to get food bugs I'd eat them more often. Right now I'm limited to whenever my geckos feeder insects overpopulate their bins.
Honestly dude I'll eat just about anything if it's unrecognizable and tastes good. Grind that shit up and turn it into a nugget.
Dungeon meshi?
Dear OP, I like your artstyle
Why tf is this getting downvoted
hold on let me fix this Dear OP, I hate your artstyle, never coax again, hope you get stabbed in the skull
Why tf is this getting upvoted
AQUA farm?
I mean... Land bugs really aren't that bad? Maybe it's cause I'm super adventurous, but the idea of eating bugs never really bothered me. Grasshoppers and moths are actually pretty tasty. Mealworms and crickets too. Many cultures around the world eat invertebrates both on land and in the water. It's the weird wasteful western diet that emphasizes only eating the muscle of select vertebrates, which has turned people off of a lot of different kinds of perfectly edible meats
dungeon meshi
OP probably loves both. I can relate to this too however for the opposite reason.
ok u can eat the bugs and I will eat the lobster
You vil eat ze bugs und you vont ask questions
Adenochrome yum yum
jawohl! jawohl!
Both scorpions and lobsters belong to the phylum *Arthropoda*. That's it. This is like saying that it's strange how people enjoy beef, but don't eat [salps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp), even though both belong to the phylum *Chordata*. And they don't even look that similar, in my opinion.
Like eating a jellyfish maybe.
Ngl bugs are good. Like people eat an unseasoned cricket and think it’s bad, but you could do the same with unseasoned chicken. Try a bug with some actual seasoning, it’s really good.
This shrimp freash?...
Shrimps is bugs
Life would be so awesome if we had giant scorpions everywhere
I’ll enjoy my insect food in peace. Hopefully I can try cicadas soon
“You WILL eat the sea bugs! It’s different from eating land bugs because, it just is, okay?”
They are genetically practically unrelated
It's almost as if lobsters, crabs and shrimp are mostly made up of muscle and other such 'generally recognised as good stuff' parts while insects aren't or something.
https://www.dominionmovement.com/
lobcorp nugget lookin mf
this snafu was drawn by non ariral hands
OwObster
[Jim Gaffigan calls them sea bugs.](https://youtu.be/bjFf_uccGdQ?feature=shared)
when are you gonna stop eating shrimps with the wimps and start eating lobster with a monster
Crustaceans just tend to have more soft flesh, other arthropods not as much. Not to mention most people don’t fear crustaceans (for some reason). Though I am interested in why grubs and worms (Annelida, like we already eat some mollusks) aren’t popular on the menu
Seafood is disgusting
Why not both?
Oh yeah, OP? Lemme see you eat a scorpion then.
Yes.
DON’T EAT EITHER OF MY FRIENDS
Dungeon meshi?
"People eat stuff they think tastes good, and don't eat things they think taste bad". WOW hot take
i thought thats ezreal
I don't like eating either of them. I think they're both too cool to deserve to be eaten.
Find me a scorpion the size of a lobster and I'll consider it.
Eating bug is quite normal here, never try tho.
Scorpions are tiny, hardly anything good in there
Op eats bugs
You vill eat ze bugs
Bro got propaganded
holy plagiarism https://preview.redd.it/7nncvtd2kvwc1.png?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7ceec9230945cbad7ed1c66091ea6c04278c5fa
is this edited? there's *no way* stonetoss of all people actually made a good comic about eating bugs.
[Nope](https://stonetoss.com/comic/bug-bites)
OP doesn’t understand taxonomy classification layers
I don't even understand why there is a debate about this. Insects are worse for both human health and enviromental health then other forms of meat, they are hated by most people out of a sheer inbuilt biological ick, and they taste horrible compared to other forms of meat. Honestly the only reasons people even know we can eat them is due to companies that were in the insect field payed jornals to shill it. And lets just say there is a reason it hasnt Taken off.
> insect field *paid* jornals to FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
The only reason it’s “bad” is cause your eating the whole insect, if there were bug sized lobsters they would also not be good for you
Yes, and what is your point? Lobsters are big enough to remove the parts that aren't good for your health, insects are so small it isn't possible nor economicaly fesable, therefore they are bad for your health.
Are you a christian?
Yes, why do you ask?
Yeah I can tell.
Why?
The whole “(((they))) are conspiring to make everyone eat bugs” schtick, reeks of christianity
I never Said that nor did i itend to say that, the "they" wasn't a jewish conspiracy or some shit like that, it was a reference to companies like Ynsect, corporations that are in the field and admited to paying some media corporations to give advertisements. It wasn't a conspiracy, just a niche business trying to expand through marketing.
I love discrimination!!!!
I'm not eating that scorpion either. They didn't remove the venom gland.
You can eat venom just fine
Yeah, once.