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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Fun lobster fact: They used to feed lobster to prisoners in Massachusetts because they were considered unclean animals since they crawled along the ocean floor and nobody else would eat them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I don’t really care which end of the bell curve I’m on and I don’t really care.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Recently, we were in the canteen at work and a colleague, who moved here a few years ago, told that she never had rhubarb before.

Then she asked me, probably just for vocab reasons: Rhubarb is a vegetable?

Uhh...

I had never thought about it. I mean, what the heck is this:

Could be a salad, a leafy green. It's kind of similar to celery, but is celery even a vegetable? Well, and of course, rhubarb is often used like a fruit, so uh...

Well, I looked it up, and scientifically, it does count as a vegetable, but colloquially, it's often considered a fruit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Like today's computer scientists, early biologists sucked at inventing new words, and simply reused existing ones. "Berry" in common language is a small, usually sweet and edible, fruit. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are all berries.

Then biologists came along and decided, actually, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are out, but watermelon and bananas are in, because the size of the fruit doesn't matter, only the placement of the seeds decides whether something is a proper, scientific berry.

A similar thing has happened with "fruit" and "vegetable", where scientific fruits include cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins. Luckily, all three of these are also berries.

I say we ignore them, and use words to mean sensible things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Or we move on with our lives and accept that fruit don't have to be sweet and vegetables don't have to be savory. Life is beautiful and nature constantly challenges expectations.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Crawfish are literally called mud bugs in a lot of places. I think lobsters and langoustines should also be under the bug umbrella.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I have a very open view towards food that is served to me (in good faith). If you honor me by serving me a meal you enjoy I will eat it, whatever it is. If you serve me live cockroaches while laughing I'm not going to say what I'd do, bad faith gets bad actions. But I never choose to eat shrimp unless they're served to me. I ate some last week unfortunately. In context, it wasn't terrible.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (10 children)

If land bugs were as meaty and tasty I’d be eating them too.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m allergic. No bugs for me!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Not all, shrimp is kinda gross TBH. But I'm excited to try new cicada recipes this summer.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A family member has bit, hook, line and sinker. Om the great reset conspiracy theory. He says Bill Gates wants to force us to eat bugs. I respond "You love shrimp?". He states its different I don't see the difference..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bill Gates came to my house last night with a gun and a plate of cockroaches.

He told me if I didn’t eat it he would shoot my family and shoot me last.

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