Love my bugs like I like my ..

XKCD 1268 by Randall Munroe (CC BY-NC 2.5).

Transcription:

Imagine you were transported to an alternate universe just like your own, except people occasionally ate spiders. You can't convince anyone this is weird. [[Two figures stand. A woman is holding a big spider. The other figure looks shocked. There is another spider on the floor.]] Woman: Mmm... Figure: No! What are you doing!? This is how I feel about lobster.

{{Title text: As best as I can tell, I was transported here from Earth Prime sometime in the late 1990s. Your universe is identical in every way, except for the lobster thing and the thing where some of you occasionally change your clocks for some reason.}}

It wouldn’t be weird to land bugs if they had that tasty meat crustaceans do. I’m big for alternative sources of protein like bugs, but the fact is they taste like shit.

well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they're surrounded by water all the time

Sea bugs are delicious and have more meat than land bugs, I've eat crickets before and it's 80% bones/ definitely not meat and 20% actual meat

Shrimps is bugs

Even before I went vegan I never understood seafood. Who wants to tear a crab leg apart for a tiny bit of meat?

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

Wet bugs are very distantly related to earth bugs.

Won't you eat chicken just because pidgeons are disgusting? (yet also eaten sometimes)

Well, wet bug meat are actually tasty, those land bugs are mostly chitin shells and not much protein, also the taste is not good.

People eat bugs all over the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_as_food

Fun fact... lobster and crayfish were so disdained once that it was literally only used to feed prisoners.

We don't eat the crunchy bits of our wet bugs. And their flesh is delicious.

I do sincerely worry about insects being added as filler materials as time goes on. I have a shellfish allergy, and the same allergens that exist in the shells of shellfish also exist in most insects.

vegetarians

Top right image just needs more Old Bay

Stop don’t do this to me

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I’ve wondered about this before, just from the perspective of North Americans. Bugs that live in the water? Delicious and fine to eat. Actually look at a shrimp, though. If it lived on the surface people would never consider eating that. I also noticed a lot of people don’t really realize that at some point shrimp have heads. What gets me is how people have strong feelings but don’t seem to have thought it through.

wontfix

I'm pretty sure I gobbled up a spider and/or a small stink bug while eating berries the other day

Oh well

I kind of miss when Hot Topic used to sell crickets and snacks, they were pretty good no cap

Jerma made this meme

I never had lobster/king crab.

Anime says it's tasty. Is it?

Do people eat centipedes?

As long as they are all well fried 👌 🍤 🍤 🍤

Bugs: 0/10

Bugs in brine: 11/10

Cladistically, insects are a type of crustacean.
Also, none of the animals portrayed are bugs in the strict sense, which are a specific suborder of insects.

yeah i've been vegetarian my whole life and lobster / crab always seemed particularly disgusting. the bodies are segmented!! they have exoskeletons!! vile!!