shrimp is bugs

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

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.
- Not sure whether this is about seafood or racism against District 9 residents.
Well.. They are
Feed meal worms oranges and then cook them up. Tasty!
- No.
Nah, they have parasites
- Perhaps, but you are aware that shrimp, lobster, crab and fish in general all have parasites too right? People get sick from seafood pretty often
- I assume you mean they can have parasites, not they do. In which case, so can most things. People are fine with eating cows even though they can have parasites. I have never actually heard of any significant issue with eating insects. I've only heard of them being great protein options that require much fewer resources to produce.

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..

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.
- Listen, he should've at least offered to kill you first. That's the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.
Crustaceans aren't insects, for starters
The difference is that shrimp are delicious? Last time you got a bug in your mouth what was your instinctive response?
The great reset is bogus but there's definitely a "conspiracy" to get us to eat bugs... A boring, capitalist conspiracy. Just the next step in the race to the bottom, another cheap and low quality food that the unwashed masses can afford to keep them alive and trudging off to work.
I will eat bugs when I see the billionaires have them on their plates.
- Fuck billionaires, if eating bugs is delicious and cuts emissions from factory farming, I'm in. The environment doesn't fit into some dick measuring contest with the rich and they don't decide my moral position.
- I've never had a raw shrimp randomly fly into my mouth out of nowhere. I'm certain my response would be disgust. I don't like it when bugs do that, but I can't say it's ever been an issue because of the flavor. I can't say what the flavor even is.
  There's no "conspiracy" to eat bugs, but there is a movement, which I agree with, promoting insects as a low resource cost protein alternative to meat. If you are flour made from grasshoppers you likely wouldn't even know unless told. I'm certain you don't actually know what they taste like, so how can you say they taste bad?

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.

Fun fact about that fun fact. They ground them up shell and all before serving them to the prisoners so yeah it was still garbage food.
- crunch
  Mmmm, gourmet

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.

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.
- 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.
- 🅱️erries
- i prefer to classify all of what you said as simply "food"
  simple yet accurate. I'm a scientist now.
Rhubarb is pretty weird, especially for people who grew up where it's not a thing.
I've never had rhubarb. I've heard it's sweet (people make pies out of it), but it looks like celery, which is one of my most hated foods. What does it actually taste like? Is it palatable raw?
- The best jam I ever had was raspberry rhubarb
- Rhubarb is actually really sour. As in, if you eat too much of it, your teeth will start feeling as if they're covered in fur, because it genuinely fucks with your enamel. (Rhubarb contains oxalic acid, which is also used in some tooth whitening products).
  But it's basically never eaten without adding a boatload of sugar to it. So, you can kind of imagine it like those sour sweets, but stronger, and of course, it's a plant, so the taste is somewhat richer (although still not very rich for a plant).
  As for eating it raw, well, then you can't really add sugar to it, so basically not palatable. I mean, you can do it, but unless you really like sour, it's just not good.
  And it's only really similar to celery in terms of its texture and crunch. The taste is completely different.

Bugs is good

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

You refuse to eat bugs because they are "disgusting and gross"

I refuse to eat bugs because I love them too much. We are not the same.

Would you eat a spider?
- Apparently I eat 3 8 spiders every night.

I’m allergic. No bugs for me!

- If you're allergic to shellfish, there's a high chance that you're also allergic to insects

In Arabic, shrimp are called sea locusts and are technically halal. (Depends on what school you follow)

Ahh… sea roaches, quite good in a salad

guy on the right knows shellfish and bugs are equally gross

And will still eat both.
- just to spite the middle people and see their reactions while chewing ocean bugs

And I eat snails, so what?

Rollie pollies is shellfish

I’m allergic so: Insects or Crustacea = disgusting. Cockroaches of the sea.

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.

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

I'll eat crawdads all day. But the WEF can keep their crickets.