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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Sea bugs come pre-seasoned

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 23 points 14 hours ago (5 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

i think it's like "tree" and "fish", which is not a phylogenetic group but a certain shape/form/expression.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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 9 points 13 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 4 points 13 hours ago

Shrimps is bugs!

[–] hark@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

lukewarm coffee: gross

hot coffee: great

it's almost as if different things are different

[–] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 14 points 15 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 6 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 15 hours ago

Thought you were just shitposting with that name...

Now I just wish you were.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.)

[–] protist@mander.xyz 56 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 13 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 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

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

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

Fixing the bugs

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized. Otherwise you’d have Red Locust and all you can eat grasshopper legs.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago

I think the problem is we don’t have huge ol crickets that are lobster sized.

take it back

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[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.

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[–] goofystench@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Because shrimp is bugs that is wet

[–] goofystench@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

NO. SHRIMP IS SHRIMP 😤😤 have some respect

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 13 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.

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