I don't get it and I'm from a fishing family

If you've got cleaned, cooked seafood that smells like fish shit, you're at a shitty restaurant. My only takeaway from this is that we should really see if we can make terrestrial insects taste as delicious as we make aquatic insects taste.

crustaceans and insects are two different things, not real complicated. The crustaceans have actual meat, not a fluid filled exoskeleton.

Well the latter have more "meat" on them, whereas bugs are mostly just "shells" once they die. You aren't eating the shells of crustaceans, you're eating the innards

The bottom ones have delectable white meat inside. The top ones are all brown guts and crispy, musty shell. Nobody is shelling crickets for a worthwhile piece of meat inside like you do a shrimp or a lobster.

They look similar to bugs, sure. But let's not pretend it's the same thing.

TL;DR: disgust is learned.

• How Do Toddlers Learn About Disgust
• Is moral disgust socially learned?
• Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behavior

Bottom line is that while there are things that we're hard-wired to reject, the rest is more about what social groups teach us at a young age. Also, we can overcome the hard-wired aspects to an extent, again through social reinforcement.

Oh I can explain it easily! One of them tastes good and the other one tastes bad. That's pretty much it... Not sure how it's so confusing though

Shrimps is bugs

I live in a fishing town, and I used to love crab, until I was adult and it was my turn to prep them. The first time I turned a crab over and saw the bottom, where all its freaky little legs connect, I had a real "oh god this is either a bug or a space alien" moment. I can't stand crab anymore, just the thought of it makes me feel nauseated. Lobster too. Somehow shrimps are okay, though.

If all the meat on earth disappeared tomorrow, I would become a vegetarian before ever knowingly consuming a bug.

I've had crispy dried grasshoppers that were chill once, and some BANGIN cricket tacos in NYC.

They're actually pretty great for protein.

I'll eat as many bugs as a billionare eats.

I don't have to eat the shells, offal, or shit of I eat the big sea ones though.

In case your serious that you don’t get it. The bottom pic is all crustaceans that are more closely related to insects than fish.

Nah fam you can keep the sea bugs, too.

Stamets, do you want me to catch the 4 inch cockroach that I've been raising free-range in my apartment and send it to you to find out? It's on a non-GMO diet.

All you need is salt to make them taste like sea bugs.

Most people are definitely quite squeamish about eating unshelled shrimp. This feels like a strawman.

Sea roaches

I don't eat water bugs either. They're also gross.

they’re in the water so they’re clean obvs

I'd rather eat bugs than shellfish. Never had bugs but I know I don't like seafood so at least there's a chance the insects won't be bad.

Oh, you eat bugs. You just don't know it.

I don't get it either, but head says no no and yes yes.

It's all about presentation. I can prep crickets in a way that almost anyone will eat them. Feed them oatmeal for a few days, then slow roast, powder in a blender, combine with sesame oil, salt, and spices, stuff it into wonton wrappers and steam. If nobody knows what's in them they disappear. But if I do fried crickets like the ones the Korean street vendors sell, very few non-Asians would touch them.

A lot of insects can be prepared using familiar presentations and the unsuspecting will devour them. I found ant cookies delicious - like a molasses cookie. And ground rolly-pollies (sowbug/pillbug/armadillium) could be used to make shrimp shumai and nobody would be the wiser.

There's definitely a difference though. Only water bugs will kill me if eaten

Well to be fair, land bugs have harder shell, and are therefore more uncomfortable to eat.

relevant xkcd (y'all already know which one it is)

I want a bug burger and I want it NOW

What does fish shit smell like?

I'll take neither.

Now that you mention it I don't think i've ever smelled fish shit in my life.

You VILL eat ze bugs! JAWHOL!

You'rrrrrrre an idiot, that's why